Have you sent back your census form? Were you hearing that yesterday was the deadline for sending back your completed form? Relax; it wasn't, you still have time.  The Census Bureau noted yesterday that while yesterday was "Census Day," it will continue to accept mailed-back censuses until mid-April. On May 1st workers will begin visiting houses of those who did not return the form to collect data.

Maybe you need a little inspiration. Check to see how your neighborhood is doing in 2010 Census returns with theTake 10 Map. This map lets you track compliance with the 2010 Census all over the US.

The front page shows the top 50 most participating cities with a population of 50,000 or more, as well as the most compliant states. (Summary: North and South Dakota win.) But local data is available too; just search for a city and state. You'll have different zoom levels...

I didn't know that there WAS a North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. I learned that after reading an article in the Salisbury Post. I  also learned that the NC Music Hall of Fame now has a Web site, at http://northcarolinamusichalloffame.org/.

If you didn't know about the NC Music Hall of Fame either, don't feel bad. Apparently it's been open for less than a year, since August 2009. The physical building is located in Kannapolis. Inductees are listed on the Web site. According to the Salisbury Post article, there were seven original inductees in 1999, but I see only the 18 people who were inducted last year. 2010 inductees will be announced sometime in April with the inductions on October 7.

NC Music Hall of Famers include both the expected -- James Taylor, Randy Travis, Earl Scruggs, and Kate Smith -- and the unexpected -- George Clinton, Thelonious Monk, Roberta Flack (well,...

Homeschooling parents, or parents who have kids with a scientific bent, or just people who like microscopes! Here's a neat, odd little offer I read about recently in a blog called Make.

ASPEX is a company that makes desktop scanning electronic microscopes and they're currently running a deal. Send them a sample of something, and they'll scan it under an electron microscope and publish the results on the ASPEX Web site. It's free. You can find the instructions for sending samples at http://aspexcorp.com/updates/sem-image-gallery-by-aspex-send-us-your-sample/. You can also find a gallery of some of the things scanned so far at http://aspexcorp.com/updates/category/sem-image-gallery/.

Items scanned so far include a penny, hard candy, paper tears, and human hair. Hmm... I wonder if I could mail them a pork rind...

So there was some kind of basketball tournament over the weekend, right? Yeah, I heard something along those lines. Oh, and Duke University won the tourney and now they're a #1 seed for some OTHER basketball wingding that's happening later this week? Hmm. I know a little about that, too. I'd know a lot more if I'd been following a site that Duke University launched last month -- a site that aggregates Duke's social media.

The new site's available at http://socialmedia.duke.edu/ and the main part of it consists of two panels. The panel on the right is the latest content from Duke's Facebook fan page. The panel on the left has three Twitter tabs: one tab for tweets from Duke folks, one tab to search Twitter for hashtags related to Duke (like #duke or #bluedevils) and one tab for listing all the official university Twitter feeds -- there are over 100 of 'em!

Beneath that you'll find links to many of Duke's other social media...