Who says they don’t make video games for Girls? My eight year old daughter was upset because all the games her brothers played were shoot-em-ups.  She asked me to find her some games more her style.  Well, I found it, and made it my site of the week: Girls Go Games.  This site has hundreds of games all geared to girls – shopping, makeup, ponies, you name it.  Check it out at girlsgogames.com.

The Smithsonian Institution is one of the largest museum organizations in the world.  What most people don’t know, however, is that millions of photographs have been stored online in the Smithsonian Images section.  Any of them can be downloaded freely for personal or educational use.  It’s an incredible archive and should be bookmarked by students and teachers.

One of the biggest questions I get on a day-to-day basis goes something like this:  “Eric, should I upgrade my old computer or buy a new one?”  Well, the answer is not as cut and dried as you might think.  But I will give you an answer.
First, how old IS your system?  My basic rule of thumb is that if a computer is four or five years old, just go get a new one.  If you upgrade a system that old, you are only delaying the inevitable replacement by a year or so.
You see, it’s not that computers 5 years old stop working.  It’s that they aren’t powerful enough to run the software built today.
If your computer is only a year or two old, then, sure, upgrade:  Get your RAM up to to 2 or 3 gigabytes.  Add a new hard drive.  And if you’re a gamer, get a faster graphics card and a larger monitor.  But remember my five year rule.
After all, if you just keep upgrading your old system, you’ll eventually end up with what we call a Frankenstein system.  And you know what happened to him!