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Cool videos

Hi, this YouTube video is called the iPod Human and it's a really hilarious movie.
This is how to be a ninja.
This is how to be a nerd
How to be emo
This is how to be a gangster

Books to read

I have a few books that I read and you might like also. The best of them all is the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. There are six books in the first series, another six in the next, and five more in the next. It's about four clans of cats named ThunderClan, WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan. It's really interesting to see life from the cat's point of view. My favorite part is what they think about our life. They call us humans "TwoLegs", our cars "TwoLeg monsters", and our houses "TwoLeg nests". So a car driving down a street or "Thunderpath" would be "A TwoLeg monster roared down the Thunderpath with a TwoLeg in its belly, night eyes gleaming and jet black paws spinning furiously. The next book I reccomend is Holes by Louis Sachar. It's about a boy that finds some sneakers and takes them to go to a police station, but a police car catches him first and claims that he stole the sneakers, which apparently belonged to a famous baseball player, so he goes to this place called Camp Green Lake (I would have named it Jail Dig Holes)where every day you have to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet wide, and in the end there's a long escape story. I don't want to give too much away. I also reccomend the book Qwerty Stevens Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin. It's about a guy obsessed with computers named Qwerty (Look at your computer's keyboard and you'll see why) who has a time machine and makes Ben Franklin come over and he shows him all the really cool things he has and then goes back in time with him to see the Declaration of Independence. You should read some of these books, and if you like them, you should become a follower on my blog, http://www.chitchatbox-marc.blogspot.com so that you can get updated on what books you should read.

Cheetah and sloth

This is my version of the popular tale The Tortoise and the Hare.

Cheetah and Sloth were friends. They were always together, and though Cheetah found it annoying to always have to walk so slowly, he would never betray his friend. But one day, Hare came along. She remarked "I bet you're no faster than Sloth by now! You haven't been moving as fast as Tortoise for moons! "Really?" Cheetah lashed back. "I'll race Sloth and beat him by a few miles!" So, Cheetah and Sloth decided to race. Cheetah wanting to win the race, but not betray his friend, , decided to pad up a few steps and wait for Sloth. They kept on going like that. But by the end, Cheetah was still ambiguous about wether to win the race for Hare, or to lose for Sloth. He sat down to think, his mind on his thoughts, not on the race. When Sloth crossed the finish line, Cheetah didn't even notice! "Well, I'll win" Cheetah thought. "Hare might be right" Cheetah looked behind him to see Sloth's position. He couldn't see Sloth! He whipped his head the other way to see Sloth with a questioning look on. He had lost!

Moral: Plan ahead.

The New iPod Touch

First, I'm going to talk about what's new on the iPod Touch. The first thing is the App Store(Application Store)

iPod touch games and applications are nothing short of amazing. And the App Store is where you’ll find them all.
The world’s best developers are taking advantage of groundbreaking technology, including Multi-Touch, the accelerometer, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional sound, to create games and applications made especially for iPod touch. So whether you’re a gamer or into something else — chatting, social networking, news, sports, finance — there’s bound to be something just for you.

The next new thing on the iPod Touch is the sleek new design.

iPod touch feels even better in your hand thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.

The iPod Touch also added volume controls on the side of the ipod touch, a longer battery life, and even a buit in speaker, no to mention the new feature for joggers.

Tune your run.
iPod touch now includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It even gives you voice feedback on your progress.

Tune your cardio workout.
This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many fitness centers. Just look for Nike + iPod compatible treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes.

Sync with nikeplus.com.
When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch via iTunes and transfer your exercise data to nikeplus.com, where you can track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends.

Everything’s a must-see.
Carry hours of video with you and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch color widescreen display. Need ideas? From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there’s something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with a few clicks. Prefer TV shows? Buy a single episode or an entire season’s worth all at once.

Buy on the fly.
The built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs — most now available in our highest-quality, DRM-free iTunes Plus format. Browse New Releases, What’s Hot, and Genres. Peruse podcasts. Or find exactly what you’re looking for with a quick search. Play a 30-second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. You can even stream and download podcasts for free. And the songs you buy remotely on iPod touch are the same price you pay on the iTunes Store on your computer

Customize your Home screen.
Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want. Even move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips.

Go home.
No matter where you are on iPod touch, one press of the Home button takes you to the Home screen. You can also take a shortcut from any Home screen back to your first Home screen by pressing the Home button.

Add apps, Web Clips, and more.
Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you can access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Not happy with how they’re organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen

iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping.

Search and find.
iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for on the web.
Zoom with a view.
Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the website rotates, too.

Clip it.
If you check a website frequently — a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site — why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away.

Access it all.
Access your email from popular providers — including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL — and most industry-standard IMAP and POP mail systems.

Send fast.
iPod touch recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, for example, just tap it and iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you.

Type smart.
With its built-in dictionary, the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email.

Find yourself.
iPod touch finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for “coffee” and iPod touch shows you every cafe nearby

Get directions.
Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you are. View a list of turn-by-turn directions or see a highlighted map route. You can also mark specific locations and find the best route between them.

Enjoy the view.
Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPod touch lets you switch between views of Google map data, satellite images, and a hybrid of both. Multi-Touch makes the difference. Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.
See traffic.
Maps on iPod touch shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red, and yellow highlights

Share photos.
Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate to see a photo in landscape. Pinch to zoom in or out. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Email a photo to a friend, set it as your wallpaper, or share it in a MobileMe Gallery.

Save photos.
If you receive a great image in an email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch. Once there, it acts just like any other photo. You can set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on.

Sync photos.
iPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Just choose which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then you can look at them — and share them — anywhere you go

Add events.
Keep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch. Add events to your calendar. Set a custom alert. Write a note or two. Manage multiple color-coded calendars. All with a few taps.

Search contacts.
If you have a lot of contacts, a quick search shows you a list of matching names to choose from. Or you can scroll up and down your entire list to find the right contact. Want to send them an email? Just tap an email address and the Mail application opens automatically.
Organized by groups.
If you keep your contacts organized into groups — such as coworkers, friends, family, and so on — iPod touch will, too. And iPod touch can hold more than just names, email addresses, and phone numbers. You can also track birthdays, websites, nicknames, and notes

Check Stocks

Stocks on iPod Touch shows you preformance information for any stock you choose. When you want more information about a stocks preformance, tap the Y! for instant acess to Yahoo! Finance.

Check Weather

Check worldwide weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six-day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a Yahoo! city guide that shows you what's happening, rain or shine.

When you press the calculator button and hold the touch vertically, this is what you get:

Or if you hold it horizontally, you get this:

The last two things I'm going to say are that the iPod Touch is 4.3 inches tall, 2.4 inches wide, 0.33 inches deep, and weighs 4.05 ounces, and that the iPod Touch costs $229.99 on apple.com, but you can buy it for less on http://www.craigslist.com/.

You should see this great guided tour from YouTube that I put right here:

Mandolins

I'm guessing that you don't know what a mandolin is. It's a type of musical instrument. That's the instrument that I play. It has 8 strings, though the're all bunched together like this:
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, so when you play, you play two strings at a time. It sounds exactly like a violin, but it is played like a guitar and you can do chords. The mandolin music is written in Treble Clef, or G Clef, and you'll probably only know what this means if you're familiar with sheet music. Got a question about mandolins? Ask me by posting a comment. Here's a video of this really good guy playing the mandolin:

The Race, a story by Marc

One day, Cat was bored. He decided to ask his friend Lion if he wanted to race. On the way there, he met the most annoying of all animals, Dog. "What are you doing in my territory?" snapped Dog. "Oh, sorry!" Cat responded. "I'm just crossing to ask Lion if he wants to race." "Fine" Dog snarled. "I'll race with you." So off they went without a word. Cat collected Lion and his friend Elephant to race. When they came back, they met a peregrine falcon. "What are you doing?" he chirped excitedly. "Oh, just racing." Cat responded. "What if I try walking instead of flying?" Peregrine Falcon queried. "Sure." First, Cat took the lead. He was too slow crossing the river and Dog went in the lead! Dog got distracted by another dog barking at him and Lion took the lead! When Cat caught up, Lion tried stopping him but couldn't Cat was in the lead again! When they were almost done, Peregrine Falcon, who was finding it very hard to hobble along with all the other animals, flew over their heads! Cat and dog got so furious that they pinned him down right before the finish line! Lion wanted to help his friend Cat, who seemed to be having a hard time, and threw himself onto the pile! But elephant, who didn't seem to care, trampled right by them , past the finish line, and won!

Ripstiks, the new super-cool skateboards

Skateboarding is fun, true, but the new Ripstiks are funner. What's different? The skateboard is more of a oval, though the Ripstiks look like this(___)----(___), with the foot spaces and the grip handle in the middle. If you don't get it, click on this blue thing: http://www.ripstikusa.com/. It has only two wheels for a reason. By making quick, sharp turns on your Ripstik, you can get up a hill without pushing off the ground like you do with a skateboard. When you first try a Ripstik, no doubt at all, you won't be able to do it. It's reallly hard to adjust to two wheels. It took me five days to be able to ride well, and another month to be able to ride smoothly and fluidly. Warning: they hurt. Alot. Once I fell on my Ripstik when I tripped over a pothole and had a sharp pain in my leg that was a little annoying for a day. I know some kids who broke a bone. But don't go away. How to avoid being hurt? Only one rule. The Ripstik is very sensitive to: sharp bumps, cracks, potholes, sand, mud, or other mushy things that are on the road, like crushed leaves. That's the only way I know you can possibly get hurt. Just avoid that. The bad thing is that now, it's winter. I don't think you'll be riding in this weather. I suppose you could go on my blog again in the summer. Thanks!

Watch these awesome tricks that I found on YouTube:

iPods

i'm really an ipod freak. this post tells you about the features of them and the price. it's pretty interesting. it's another thing i'm obsessed with besides siggs.

apple came out with their first ipod, the ipod mini, on the year of 2001.it didn't take long to catch on to the fashion. it was a huge hit! it looked a lot like today's nanos, with the screen and the touch sesitive scrollwheel. they came in many different colors. steve jobs, ceo of apple, actually DISCONTINUED the mini, which caused a huge rage among everyone. they all thought it was the worst thing that could possibly happen! steve replaced them with the ipod nano 1g (first generation), but no one liked them as much! they look like the nano you have now, and their differences from the mini were that they had a sleeker look, they could carry more songs, and they came in only black and white. nanos like this are still on sale! steve was shocked that his followers really cared so much about how the ipod looked. he learned a very big lesson from that, which is why apple's new products look so fancy even if they're not even turned on. eventually people did catch on to this new ipod, but jobs still thought they would like it even more if he allowed colors on them, leading tot he ipod nano 2g, which carried more songs and came in many more colors. sure enough, he got more sales. next, steve jobs thought that it would be cool if there was an ipod that was at a cheap price designed for kids. apple came out with a new ipod called the ipod shuffle that is only fifty dollars for 240 songs of memory, or sixty dollars for five hundred songs of memory. they're TINY and weigh only 15 GRAMS! they have no screen, just have buttons and switches for on-off, shuffle-play songs in order, and buttons that can pause, play, go to the next song, replay, go to the previous song, put the ipod on hold ( the mode when no matter what button you push it won't react), rewind, or fast forward. all those capabilities only need two switches and 4 buttons! now, you get songs on your ipod by downloading itunes. downloading it is free. you can name your ipod, and buy songs in two different ways: one is to stick your cd into the computer and put the songs on your ipod for FREE, and another is to go on the itunes shop (a shop of music that basically has everything in it), and buy songs for $0.99 per song. it has this feature called genius where you can click any song on your ipod, and it tells you what you'd probably also like if you like that song. an ipod is rechargeable, but eventually, after about 3-6 years of use (depending on how much you use it, it will last 3 years if you use it about 1 hour per day). i don't know too much about ipod touches and iphones, so i'm going to leave that out, but if you have any questions about ipods, PLEASE POST A COMMENT! if you have any comments, well, POST A COMMENT!!!

Siggs, the new super cool metallic water bottles

siggs have been around since 1908. they're metallic, and they're water bottles that come either with a hook or cap on top. they come in great designs. i have one that has a samurai, dragon, and
a tiger all fighting with a red background. they have plain siggs, siggs with gorrilas, siggs with tigers, siggs with peace symbols, even hello kitty siggs, and much more! they're great for school, hiking, sports, more great stuff, or just when you're thirsty. you'll see everyone with them. i'm in third grade, and three of my classmates have them, my mom says a lot of ladies in her yoga class have them, my teachers have them, really, you'll see them everywhere. you should get one! they're really tough and durable, they don't grow mold, and they keep you hydrated!
they cost about twenty-two dollars per bottle, and you can buy the hook or cap that covers the sigg seperatley for five dollars.
if you've got any questions about what I say, or anything, PLEASE post a comment on my blog.
i will post another blog answering all your questions!
thanks for reading, and get yourself a sigg!
if you find yourself the slightest bit interested, and you want to know more, visit http://www.sigg.com/. if you know anybody who has a sigg or knows alot about siggs, PLEASE post a comment.
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