This week, I hope to provide a basic summary of the smashing success of SPARKcon 08.
First, a primer: SPARKcon is a festival celebrating and nurturing the local creativity of Raleigh and the Triangle region of NC. It’s 100% volunteer… everyone involved runs entirely on enthusiasm, passion and talent, with a bit of support from some [...]

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…at least according to a new ranking and survey created by Men’s Health Magazine.
There were a number of rankings listed, including number of registered voters, percentage of active voters, resident political contributions, campaign spending, etc. The summation of all of that led to the overall “Most Political” ranking that Raleigh won.
Apparently, North Carolina in general [...]

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) named NC State University as the leader of a national research center to focus on the development of technology to revolutionize the nation’s power grid and speed renewable energy technologies into homes and businesses.
NC State’s Centennial Campus will house NSF’s Engineering Research Center for Future Renewable Electric Energy [...]

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Today is the start of the Raleigh Wide Open III festival, and if you are in the Raleigh area and can get your hands on the News&Observer paper check out the What’s Up! section, for a map (designed by GAMIL) of all the events and times of events going on in the Downtown area. With [...]

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  ‘In 1970 Gordon B Holcombe a pioneer in the design and construction of buildings utilizing coated fabrics predicted that,’ “Before the year 2000 the house you live in may come in a can of liquid and a roll of fabric-and be inflated like a balloon. And by the end of this decade, everything from [...]

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