This is a great opportunity for us to get involved at the 2008 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Plus, winners get funds to show case there idea. I think James has offered a great idea, and I for one am looking forward to being part of a team that develops this task, and show case it in NEW ORLEANS. This will be a awesome time, and look great on a resume for grad schools in case anybody needs any extra motivation. Being that the DEADLINE is 11/16/07 I suggest we decide if there are other ideas, or if this is the one we like by this weekend.

Contest entries are due to the ACS Office of Community Activities on Friday, November 16.

Challenge: The theme for NCW 2008 is ³Having a Ball with Chemistry²
(chemistry and sports). Affiliates will develop a hands-on activity for
elementary school children that depicts how/where chemistry is connected to
sports materials (shoes, equipment, clothing, etc.) and/or performance
(metabolism, nutrition, physiological)
Rules and guidelines can be found at www.acs.org/ncw

If there are any questions about Chemvention or NCW, please contact Judith
Jankowski in the ACS Office of Community Activities at oca@acs.org
or 800-227-5558, ext.
6078.

Ok sorry for ALL the ANNOYING emails, but now when anything is posted on the site it will be mailed to all subscribers when the box “All Subscribers” is checked. I think i hear my physics calling, so good night all.

-E

How do we feel about polls?

The celebration of Avogadro’s number 6.022 X 10 ²³

Ok, let start with what is a favicon. A favicon is the graphic icon that loads up next to the web address. Many sites you bookmark often have an icon. For example WellsFargo has a WF, MSCD has some weird dotting swirl, Metro Chem Club has a chiral carbon atom!

First, I started by searching Google for pics of atoms. Once, I found the ideal picture I downloaded it to an easily accessible location. I use an open source image manipulation program known Gimp, but Photoshop might work for Window users. Opening the pic in Gimp and scaling the image to be square before saving it as ppm file (ie. 8X8 pixels) enables you to have a small square icon that will fit next to the web address. If your image manipulation program allows “.ico” files, it would be easiest to save it as such allowing you to skip the next few steps. Netpbm was the program I used to convert formats before uploading the favicon to the host server. With the proper plugins running in the Content Management System CMS, favicon head in this case, I was able to input the favicon’s location, and PRESTO!! Favicon on our web address.

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