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The dancing lady
2007-10-03 17:57:00 This is an optical illusion, look at the dancer below. Which way is she spinning? If you see her spinning clockwise, then you are left brain oriented i.e. you are a logical and analyzing person. If you see her spinning counter-clockwise, then you are right brain oriented i.e. you are an artistic and intuitive person. ... More About: Dancing , Lady
10 year old gives birth!
2007-10-02 22:04:00 This really shocked me. What is the world coming to when a 10 year old girl gets pregnant and gives birth. The father was 13 and as it was reported, the girl looked like a 10 year old too. I assume that means her body had not matured and developed yet. Her parents didn’t realize ... More About: Birth , Year
Breast Cancer Awareness month is here
2007-10-01 22:35:00 October is Brea st Cancer Awareness month. It’s a month to get people talking about breast cancer, to raise awareness and to raise money for research. Breast cancer does affect many lives, men or women. If you can, donate and help support the improvement of breast cancer research and the unfortunate that have been diagnosed with it. Last ... More About: Breast Cancer
For the rich only: The supersonic private jet
2007-10-01 17:11:00 Lockheed Martin and Supersonic Aerospace International has joined forces to make the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST), a high speed luxury jet that flies coast to coast in 2 hours at Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approx. 1,056 mph to 1,188 mph) quietly without the eardrum-blistering sonic booms. Specifications Range: 4,600 miles Speed: Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approx. 1,056 mph ... More About: Rich , Private , Riva , The Super
SearchMash: Google?s experimental search engine
2007-09-30 23:39:00 Google owns and operates an AJAX-like experimental search engine called Search Mash. There is no mention of Google accept in the Terms of Service. It would seem that this is an experimental playpan for current development, one similar to AllTheWeb (an experimental site for Yahoo). Visiting the site at random intervals allows you to experience Google’s experimental ... More About: Google , Search Engine , Experimental , Engine
Leveraging VoIP with click to call technology
2007-09-28 20:56:00 Seems like there are more and more click to call companies offering cheap national/ international calls. I read about it months ago but didn’t really pay attention until USA Today and Techcrunch reported on it today. Here’s how it works: 1. You go their website, create an account 2. Using their dialup interface, you put in ... More About: Technology , Click , Voip , Call , Click-to-Call
Vulnerabilities in Google mail
2007-09-28 11:18:00 Bullseye on Google : Hackers expose holes in GMail , Blogspot, Search Appliance by ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine — In the past few days, there have been multiple disclosures of security vulnerabilies in a wide range of Google products, including a persistent e-mail theft issue affecting the widely used GMail service. Share This More About: Vulnerabilities , Google mail
Prime time TV showdown
2007-09-28 00:59:00 Prime Thursday is here. 8 pm Ugly Betty (ABC) vs. Survivor: China (CBS) vs. Are you Smart than a 5th Grader (FOX) vs. My name is Earl & 30 Rock (NBC) vs. Smallville (CW) 9 pm Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) vs. CSI (CBS) vs. Don’t Forget the Lyrics (Fox) vs. Office & Scrubs (NBC) vs. Supernatural (CW) 10 ... More About: Time , Prime , Rime , Prim , Prime Time
Wordless Wednesday: Work Tantrums
2007-09-26 06:01:00 A normal work day … We all need a little release sometime … (Courtesy of Bob my Cubeman) wordless wednesday Share This More About: Work , Wednesday
A Classy McDonald?s
2007-09-25 15:42:00 A McDonald’s restaurant looking like a Starbucks. Yes, that’s how it looked like when we stopped to grab a bite at a McDonald’s in Woodmere, Ohio on the weekend. We were really oohing and aahing at how nice and luxurious looking it was. The building had a modern architecture with strategically placed plants, the floors ...
Trendio: A Stock Exchange of words and news
2007-09-25 14:34:00 Trendio is a stock exchange of a different kind. It lists current events, news and popular word (tags) as stocks where the value is calculated according to their presence in the media. Therefore, the more talked about it is, the higher it the ?price? would be on the stock exchange. It is a fun way to ... More About: News , Words , Exchange , Stock , Chang
GameAlmighty: A superhero themed game site
2007-09-24 11:21:00 GameAlmighty.com is a new online community for the video gaming world. Think of it as a game-centric version of your favorite social networking site and your favorite online video source all wrapped in a Web 2.0-driven package. Its objective is to offer gaming reviews, previews, latest industry news, videos, podcasts and other creative content within ... More About: Site , Game , Superhero , Mighty , Meal
Fall TV schedule
2007-09-22 22:16:00 For the TV addicts, AOL came up with a great site for all the dates and times for the new and returning TV series. Good time to set the Season Pass recordings on those TIVOs. Can’t wait to watch the new shows Bionic Woman and Caveman and the returning ones… CSI, CSI: Miami, Numb3rs and ... More About: Schedule , Fall
Using water wisely
2007-09-22 11:34:00 Water - Use it Wisely shows you 100 ways to conserve water depending on your geographical location in the country. I am definitely guilty of wasting water. From the list of 100 ways to conserve water for my location, here are ten things I should watch: - When washing dishes by hand, don’t let the water ... More About: Water
A Friend In Need
2007-09-21 08:32:00 (This happens to be the 24 year old stepson of J’s Aunt) In November of 2006, three weeks before graduating from the Delaware County Municipal Police Academy, Steve was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer known as neuronendocrine cancer. He underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments and had a large tumor surgically ... More About: Friend
The National Crime Information Center
2007-09-20 23:53:00 Reading a textbook on ethics in business as part of my MBA, I came across an astonishing fact about the FBI’s National Crime Information Center . The National Crime Information Center is a database of integrated, real-time processing and online fingerprint matching data for terrorists, fugitives, outstanding arrest warrants, missing people, gang members and more. The ... More About: Rime
Golfing in style
2007-09-20 00:18:00 What I want for Christmas is … a Berline Cadillac Escalade golf cart. Whoever wants this would have to cough up $13,995 for it. The shipping charge alone is about $850.00 in the continental U.S. It basically costs more than a Kia and around the price of a Toyota or a Saturn. It ... More About: Style , Golfing , In Style
Avast, maties!
2007-09-19 19:59:00 Avast, maties! This be Talk Like A Pirate Day and hope ye day is good. ARRR! Me pirate name tis year is Landlubber Morgan the Gold and tis me song: Most days are like all of the others, Go to work, come back home, watch TV, But, brother, if I had me druthers, I’d chuck it and head out to ... More About: Vast
Blades of Glory
2007-09-18 18:45:00 We watched Blades of Glory on the weekend, the one starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). The movie is about 2 skating rival superstars with opposite styles being stripped of their medals and banned for life. Years later, they find a loop hole in the skating regulations and realize that they can still ... More About: Blades of Glory
Love is a snowmobile?
2007-09-18 03:40:00 Not sure whether I agree with it fully but this quote is pretty funny. “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons Share This More About: Bile
iPod Death Clock
2007-09-17 12:46:00 iPodMechanic is offering you a way to check how long your iPod?s life is left in this world. You can find that out by going to iPod Death Clock . Type in your iPod Serial Number, answer a few questions about the general usage and the software algorithms will crank out your iPod?s life expectancy. To ... More About: Ipod
Morphing Digg and Del.icio.us
2007-09-16 10:36:00 Another interesting mashup I found while surfing … What happens when you combine Digg with Del.icio.us? You’ll get a site called Digglicious. Digglicious is an Ajax based site that updates (in real time) all the most popular articles that have been dugg and bookmarked on del.icio.us in the past couple of days. The real time list ... More About: Morph
The futuristic libary
2007-09-15 08:25:00 Changing the way libraries are built and run, Chicago State University’s library is run with robots. Costing $38 million, every book, CD and DVD is tagged with a RFID (radio Frequency ID Chip) and when someone wants to borrow an item or return it, the robot identifies it and sort it accordingly. The robots are ... More About: Futuristic , The Futurist
Fairy tale Google
2007-09-14 18:11:00 10 years ago Larry Page and Sergey Brin, then Stanford University students, registered the name Googl e .com on September 15th 1997. They incorporated a year later still working in their garage. 10 years later, the company now trades on the US stock exchange and is estimated at $164 billion dollars, with multiple streams of revenue from ... More About: Fairy Tale , Tale
Simply Allth.at!
2007-09-14 07:47:00 Allth.at is a unique search tool that allows you to do persistent searching. What that means is that the search engine never stops searching i.e. you select a site, an item and it will keep reporting new search results back to you. Search results can be delivered right to your RSS Reader, email or saved ... More About: Simply
Quote of the day
2007-09-14 00:41:00 “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles Schultz, Creator of Peanuts Share This More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote , The D
Twitterlicious
2007-09-13 08:15:00 Twitter + Del.icio.us + Ma.gnolia = Twitterlicious Innovation is the key in Myk O’Leary’s latest mashup, Twitterlicious (Alpha). For those of you who don’t know what a mashup is, it is “mashed data from multiple sites to create a new site with integrated data”. What he has done is combine the Yahoo bookmarking system, Twitter.com, Del.icio.us ...
iPhone bill (in a box)
2007-09-12 22:12:00 And talking about being eco friendly … Thanks to Justine from Tasty Blog Snack for making this. Share This More About: Iphone , Bill
Happy Camper
2007-09-12 07:13:00 I bought a nice atomic watch from Sharper Image over the weekend. I meant to spend my $100 gift card weeks ago but the mall we went to (on the other side of Cleveland) didn’t have the store there. Being a guy that loves his watches (I have a large collection indeed), this has ... More About: Happy , Camper
A simple eco friendly software solution
More articles from this author:2007-09-11 10:40:00 For the eco friendly computer folks, GreenPrint software may be something to look at. GreenPrint eliminates the unwanted pages when you try to print something from the internet. It’s patent-pending technology analyzes each page before it is sent to the printer for the most common of wasted characteristics e.g. pages with just the URL, banner ... More About: Software , Simple , Friendly , Solution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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