2008 New Year Fireworks, Sydney

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Funny New Year quotes

clipped from quotations.about.com Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser. A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

penises of the world

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All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers

clipped from www.cbsnews.com Jordan Taylor is being called a medical miracle. The nine-year-old boy was nearly decapitated in a car crash three months ago, but doctors reattached his head to his neck and now he's made virtually a full recovery. Jordan was buckled up in the back seat, but the impact caused an unthinkable injury. "The energy basically made his head lift up off of his neck, and then move forward," It's called orthopedic decapitation. Jordan's spinal cord remained intact, but his skull separated from his neck. "All of the connective tissue that essentially keeps your head connected to your neck was destroyed, Doctors were able to reattach his skull with a metal plate and titanium rods, enabling Jordan to start defying overwhelming odds.

potcast - hear reggae music

......man

clipped from potcast.podomatic.com POTCAST 10 - Same Old Story clipped from potcast.podomatic.com clipped from potcast.podomatic.com 1. Tarrus Riley - Beware - Cannom 2. Collie Buddz - Let Me Know - Massive B 3. Chezidek - Call Pon Dem - Massive B 4. Burro Banton - Garrison - Massive B 5. Morgan Heritage - Rootz Raid Dance - VP 6. Chuck Fender - Hurry & Come Home - Birchill 7. Alborosie & Nickie - I don`t wanna let you Go - Birchill 8. Junior X - Hustler - Birchill 9. Anthony B - Striving - No Doubt 10. Morgan Heritage - Nothing to Smile About - No Doubt

rap has origins in Scotland

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Professor argued that so-called rap battles, where two or more performers trade elaborate insults, derive from the ancient Caledonian art of "flyting". Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to the United States, where it was adopted and developed by slaves, emerging many years later as rap. a clear link between this tradition for settling scores in Scotland and rap battles, which were famously portrayed in Eminem's 2002 movie 8 Mile.

Great Eye-Catching Advertisments

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Bush avoiding THAT shoe

what better way to get the shoe noticed..must have been an employee

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hypnotic bum

instead of counting sheep...just watch this..

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Amazing Sea Creature Photographs

great slideshow

clipped from digg.com 2500 Amazing Sea Creature Photographs: "This Is Why We Dive" flickr.com — An incredible collection of underwater photographs. Nature never ceases to amaze... Share Bury made popular 2 years 20 days ago

World's First Photograph

took 8 hours!!

clipped from photography.nationalgeographic.com clipped from www.npr.org View from the Window at le Gras (also known as "The World's First Photograph"), Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, c. 1826. Niépce with being the first to permanently capture an optical image. Niépce's biggest breakthrough came in 1822, when he created a permanent image by exposing coated pewter plates to a camera image, using the vapors from heated iodine crystals to darken the silver. The exposure time for the first photo lasted eight hours -- so the sun had time to move from east to west, appearing to shine on both sides of the building. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,

how the WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !

Now you have a better understanding

clipped from www.gnn.tv Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing many monkeys around, started catching them. The man bought thousands supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped He next announced buy monkeys at $20 each they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished and people back to their farms offer increased to $25 each supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey The man now would buy monkeys at $50 each! he had to go to the city his assistant would buy on his behalf the assistant told the villagers: ‘Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.’ The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars. They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

17 year old helps send 400 stoves to Darfur

clipped from edition.cnn.com People living in the camps are relatively safe, but there is danger for the women and young girls who leave the compounds in search of firewood to cook meals. Firewood in the desert is scarce, and the women often have to walk up to seven hours to gather enough wood to bring back to their camps. Some women have been targeted, sexually assaulted and killed. Spencer Brodsky, 17, learned about the violence and decided to raise money to purchase fuel-efficient stoves to send to Darfur. The stoves burn 75 percent less firewood. At $30 per stove, Brodsky has raised enough money to ship 420 stoves to Darfur. "These women are so grateful for this initiative and actually thankful to the American people who are so passionate to let these women know that there is help out there," Mohamed said.

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008

clipped from torrentfreak.com Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008 2008 is nearing its end, time to make a list of the top 10 BitTorrent sites that got the most traffic this year. The Pirate Bay is out in the lead followed by Mininova and isoHunt. TorrentSpy shut down earlier this year and is the most notable absentee.

Scientists Find 2,700-Year-marijuana stash

clipped from blogs.discovermagazine.com Scientists have discovered two pounds of a dried plant that turned out to be the oldest marijuana in the world. Inside one of the Yanghai Tombs excavated in the Gobi Desert At first, the researchers thought the dried weed was coriander. Then they spent 10 months getting the cannabis from the tomb in China to a secret lab in England. Finally, the team put the stash through “microscopic botanical analysis” including carbon dating and genetic analysis, and discovered the stash was really pot. The fact that the weed had a chemical known for psychoactive properties called tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, or THC, led scientists to believe the community probably used it for medicinal and recreational purposes. According to professor Ethan Russo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany, someone had picked out all the parts of the plant that are less psychoactive before placing it in the grave, therefore the dead man probably didn’t grow his hemp merely to make clothes.

Origami: Most Amazing Paper Sculptures

History: Origami originated in China as "Zhe Zhi" in the first or second century AD, and it reached Japan in the sixth century. Over the next few hundred years, origami became familiar in many aspects of Japanese culture. By the Heian period of Japanese history, origami was a significant aspect of Japanese ceremony. Samurai warriors would exchange gifts adorned with noshi, a sort of good luck token made of folded strips of paper. Origami butterflies were used during the celebration of Shinto weddings to represent the bride and groom.

In the 1960's the art of origami began to spread out, first with modular origami and then with various movements developing, including the kirikomi.

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Add Bubbles of text to any video

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30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials

30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials - Six Revisions

In this article, we take advantage of the merits of learning by way of watching video tutorials and screencasts. Video tutorials allow you to learn by following along with the instructor in real-time - a format that’s very effective for many people.

You can use these video tutorials a couple of ways: to learn about WordPress yourself or to send to your not-so-technology-inclined clients as a reference to help them get started. You’ll find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools.

DEPARDIEU'S talks TURKEY

there there little gobble gobble...once upon a time, a table of ten had assembled ready for a feast fit for a King who had great stress given he had just beheaded some bandits...oops!

clipped from www.express.co.uk Wednesday December 24,2008 French actor GERARD DEPARDIEU ensures his holiday turkey is delicious by caressing and talking to the bird before cooking it. key to preparing the perfect fowl is to relax the turkey. Before killing something, I always talk to it. An animal that's been caressed before it's killed dies peacefully, and its muscles don't contract with adrenalin. "If an animal is slaughtered in a stress-free way, it tastes better."

Permafrost meltdown lifting the lid on Methane

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com The East Siberian Sea is bubbling with methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being released from underwater reserves, according to a recent expedition. This could be a sign that global warming is thawing underwater permafrost, which is releasing methane that has been locked away for many thousands of years. could cause "really serious climate consequences clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com Underneath the permafrost are stores of methane not been leaking, because the sub-sea permafrost served as a lid But now global warming may be starting to release these stores of methane into the atmosphere. "Springtime air temperatures on the East Siberian Arctic shelf [have] increased up to 5 degrees Celsius [9 degrees Fahrenheit]," Semiletov said. "It's a hot spot." In comparison, the world as a whole has warmed about 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 degrees Celsius) since pre-industrial times. If abrupt methane release became widespread, it could create a feedback loop that would lead to even more drastic global warming.

Russia To Make 39 Space Launches In 2009

in the blink of an eye you will have half the kremlin partying on the moon.

clipped from www.spacedaily.com The Russian space agency will make 39 space launches next year from the Baikonur and Plesetsk space centers the launches would be made as part of the Federal Space Program, the Glonass federal program, an international cooperation program, and a number of commercial projects. A Proton rocket will put into orbit two Express communication satellites, two Glonass satellites, 17 communication satellites, two weather and ocean monitoring satellites, one emergency situations monitoring satellite, and six astrophysical satellites to study planets within the solar system. Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov previously said that the number of satellites in the Glonass network would be increased to 30 by 2011.

Secure Your Vista PC in 10 Easy Steps

clipped from www.networkworld.com While Windows Vista may be Microsoft's most secure operating system ever, it's far from completely secure. In its fresh-from-the-box configuration, Vista still leaves a chance for your personal data to leak out to the Web through Windows Firewall, or for some nefarious bot to tweak your browser settings without your knowing. But by making a few judicious changes using the security tools within Windows Vista--and in some cases by adding a few pieces of free software--you can lock down your operating system like a pro.

Iran: such barbarians?

...Bush and his paranoid buddies wants this country gone! for their....attempt at being like humans??

clipped from www.theunapologeticmexican.org LET'S TAKE A WALK THROUGH IRAN. Here are images, I wanted to lay them out. As glimpses. Isolated glimpses into another country, one that mostly exists for us in scary soundbytes and media-approved shots of hangings and flame and the dark dark chador and the obscuring burqa. We pump the hot gas of our fear and media worship into those shadowy shapes, because after all, all of us here in the USA are experts at marketing and advertising and image. We take joy in our trade. This is our most intensive area of training. This shot is of a woman looking into Khomeini's tomb. This green, green foto was titled Naqsh-e-Jahaan Square. A wondrous work of art, this rivals the most beautiful churches I've seen in the USA. I don't go in too much for religion. But I do appreciate the art that moves the hands of humans when they feel inspired. I feel much the same way as I have standing in some vast, ornate churches in New York. There are a few beauties. A wedding in Iran. A Kurdish-Persian wedding.

evolution of man..funny pic

"If evolution was true, mothers would have more than two hands"

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Funny Epitaphs

clipped from www.usroots.com On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young. In a London, England cemetery: Ann Mann Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767 In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace The children of Israel wanted bread And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna. Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast Pardon me For not rising. In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays Butch, We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger, But slow on the draw. A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted. (ed: guess they did not have personal ads then) A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.

Tennessee - Toxic Spill 48 Times Larger Than Exxon Valdez

clipped from www.alternet.org Environmental Spill Disaster Devastates Tennessee; 48 Times the Size of Exxon Valdez Approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash sludge has broken through a holding pond at a coal-fired plant. An environmental disaster of epic proportions has occurred in Tennessee. Monday night, 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at TVA's Kingston coal-fired power plant covering 400 acres up to six feet deep, damaging 12 homes and wrecking a train. Officials also said that the magnitude of this spill is such that the entire area could be declared a federal superfund site. toxic substances are in that sludge: Mercury, arsenic, lead, beryllium, cadmium. they could (at the mild end) irritate skin or trigger allergies or (longer term) cause cancer or neurological problems. Greenpeace Calls for Criminal Investigation

1884 advertisement for a comic entitled Harberd's Comicalities

an advertisement for a comic entitled Harberd's Comicalities. The 19th century saw a boom in the number of comic periodicals published. They were written primarily to entertain the lower and middle classes. There was a great need at this time for escapist entertainment; working and living conditions were tough for many people and humour was one way of coping with this. The great British tradition of laughing at ourselves can be detected

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1885 advertisement for a comic entitled Jack and Jill

an advertisement for a comic entitled Jack and Jill. Comic periodicals contained jokes, verses, riddles, cartoons, caricatures and satire. They actually did a lot more than just making people laugh, they often made reference to current events and dealt with very serious political and social issues but combined these with trivial stories and pictures.

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Ten Days of Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day...thus a song to mark the occasion

clipped from judson.blogs.nytimes.com Sir Isaac Newton in an engraving from 1760 In honor of Newton’s Birthday festival the following song, to be sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” On the tenth day of Newton, My true love gave to me, Ten drops of genius, Nine silver co-oins, Eight circling planets, Seven shades of li-ight, Six counterfeiters, Cal-Cu-Lus! Four telescopes, Three Laws of Motion, Two awful feuds, And the discovery of gravity! Happy Newton, everybody!

3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late

3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late

1 // You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were "well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.

2 // Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.

3 // Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You'll wake up feeling less like Bert, more like Ernie.

Chinese chef - Kung Pao Chicken

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chinese chef - beef and bell peppers

clipped from au.youtube.com Chinese cooking expert Eileene Yin-Fei Lo shares recipes and life lessons she learned from her grandmother with the Early Show's Tracy Smith.

Peppermint Improves Digestion, Relieves Headaches and Kills Fungal Infections

clipped from www.elements4health.com Nutrients Peppermint is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A. Peppermint is a very good source of magnesium, folate, dietary fiber, calcium, iron, and vitamin B2. Irritable Bowel Syndrome was significant improvement of symptoms after taking a peppermint oil formulation 3 to 4 times daily. peppermint oil capsules twice daily for 4 weeks, Indigestion (dyspepsia) Headache Shingles A 76-year-old woman shingles sufferer experienced almost immediate relief from pain after topical treatment with peppermint oil. Standard therapies had been ineffective Anti Cancer Perillyl alcohol found in the essential oil of peppermint studies have shown perillyl alcohol to regress pancreatic, mammary, and liver tumors, and has the ability to kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Candidiasis Of 35 oil extracts of medicinal plants tested, peppermint was one of the 13 plants that demonstrated anti-Candida activity. Athletes Foot greater fungicidal activity fungal skin infection athlete’s foot.

Torrents - RSS Feeds That Work

clipped from feedmytorrents.com FeedMyTorrents - RSS Feeds That Work! TV-Show Feeds What if you could automatically download the latest episode of your favorite TV-show? You can use any of our TV-show RSS Feeds, and add them to your favorite BitTorrent program. These RSS feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle My Feeds You can even create own RSS Feeds. This allows you to remotely add torrents, so they are downloaded while you're away! Independent of your favorite tracker, this works for The Pirate Bay, Mininova, btjunkie , ...

Each faith's Golden rule

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100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008

Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. When searching through all these tutorials, your time is wasted.

In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008. These are selected from our published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from our Photoshop users and readers. Enjoy.

Smokin’ Woman 31,513 views
Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: aviary )

In this tutorial, it is going to show how to create one smoking woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix. So follow along. With the magic of Phoenix, you've created the smoking woman of your dreams.



Turning a Image into a Beautiful Paint 28,289 views
Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: 9tutorials )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to turn a photo into a beautiful paint. This process is required to implement part by part. You need to define the image by different color parts. And you may use pen tool to do it. In order to turn the paint becoming more realistic, adding shadow into the image is necessary.

Free Online Video Converter

clipped from online.movavi.com Free Online Video Converter No software to install. No ads to interrupt. URL | File Add up to 5 files limited to 10 min each and 100 Mb total size   AVI format, Xvid (.avi)   Mpeg-4 format (.mp4)   MPEG-2 format, DVD Quality, PAL (.mpeg)   MPEG-2 format, DVD Quality, NTSC (.mpeg)   iPod video, 320x240 (.mp4)   iPod 5G video, 640x480 (.mp4)   iPhone video (.mp4)   PSP video (.mp4)   3gp for cellphone (.3gp)   3gp2 for cellphone (.3gp2)   Best for video podcast, MPEG4 format (.mov)   Flash video (.flv)   MP3 Lame, 192kbps (.mp3)   WMA 44kHz, 128kbps (.wma)   iPod video, 320x240 (.mp4) Enter your email address so we can notify you when your files are ready

funny one liners...mitch hedberg

"i had a parrot once, and he could talk, but he couldn't say i'm hungry, so he died."

"every book is a children's book if the kid can read."

"my fake plants died because i didn't pretend to water them."

"i have no problem not listening to the temptations which is weird."

"do you think when the guy came up with the idea to invent a bong, a blacklight popped up over his head?"

"i like the fed ex guy because he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it."

"i went to a doctor, all he did was suck blood from my neck. don't go see dr. acula"

"i got a ant farm, them fellas didn't grow shit."

"i was gonna have my teeth whitenned but then i said, 'fuck that i'll just get a tan instead.'"

Self-publishing a book: 25 things you need to know

Self-publishing a book: 25 things you need to know | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews

Self-publishing is easy.

Here's how it works. You choose a size for your book, format your Word manuscript to fit that size, turn your Word doc into a PDF, create some cover art in Photoshop, turn that into a PDF, and upload it all to the self-publisher of your choice and get a book proof back within a couple of weeks (or sooner) if you succeeded in formatting everything correctly. You can then make changes and swap in new PDFs.

After you officially publish your book, you can make changes to your cover and interior text by submitting new PDFs, though your book will go offline ("out of stock") for a week or two. BookSurge charges $50 for uploading a new cover and $50 for a new interior.

Lulu offers very good, detailed instructions for the DIY crowd, doesn't require any upfront fees, and is very popular as a result. Ironically, I used Lulu's how-to content to put my book together for BookSurge, which has very poor instructions for DIYers. Interesting stat: Lulu claims to publish an average of 4,000 books a week. Oddly, the company didn't offer the size of the book I wanted to create (8 x 5.25 inches--the standard size for trade paperback novels; Lulu only offers 6 x 9, which is too big).

Vitamin don't fight cancer, studies show

i'd like to see more on how the tests were conducted....

clipped from www.latimes.com 1990s -- wonder pills that appeared to fight cancer, heart disease, stroke and other ailments. National Institutes of Health gave them the same treatment as top-notch pharmaceutical drugs, investing hundreds of millions of dollars in elaborate clinical trials fresh evidence that vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium supplements don't reduce the risk of prostate, colorectal, lung, bladder or pancreatic cancer offer no help in fighting other cancers, stroke or cardiovascular disease.

Most amazing maths teaching site

damn...just learned all about calculus in 3 days

clipped from www.khanacademy.org a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, have 700+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here. entire video library is shown below. Just click on a category or video title to start learning Calculus  |  Precalculus  |  Trigonometry  |  Algebra  |  Finance  |  Pre-algebra  |  Arithmetic  |  Geometry  |  Physics  |  SAT Preparation  |  Probability  |  Singapore Math  |  Linear Algebra  |  Differential Equations  |  Credit Crisis  |  Banking and Money "...My eldest kid is dancing around in my room here because she is so excited that she finally found someone that teaches like this.

Dingo Fence – Longest Structures In The World

New china wall

clipped from www.stumbleupon.com one of the world’s longest manmade structures to be in Australia. Stretching across the Australian desert - Dog fence or Dingo fence is one of the longest structures on earth. Extending from Jimbour on the Darling Downs to the Eyre Peninsula on the Great Australian Bight, it runs along 5,320 km. owes its genesis to the pest expulsion plans had built it to stop the rabbit plague; however, in 1914 it was renovated to protect the sheep-grazing lands from the dingoes. By 1980, it was a long stretch of 8614 kilometers. Soon after the fence were reduced to 5614 kilometers stands at a height of 1.8 m and its netting at the ground level extends 1.5m along the ground.

Three undersea cable cuts hit India's net traffic

you have to be joking - SEA ME WE?

clipped from news.in.msn.com New Delhi: Three major undersea cables -- the Sea Me We 4, Sea Me We3, and FLAG -- were cut, considerably slowing down India's internet and voice traffic The causes of the cut -- located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt -- remain unclear. isted 14 countries affected by the current problem. The Maldives are 100 per cent down, followed by India, which has 82 per cent disruption. Qatar, Djibouti and the UAE were the next most widely affected areas with about 70 per cent service interrupted. Disruptions for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan range from 51 per cent to 55 per cent. Unsubstantiated sabotage theories were doing the rounds

Black and White Fine-Tuning in Photoshop CS3

Black and White Fine-Tuning in Photoshop CS3 | Layers Magazine

A black-and-white photograph is all about the subtle matrix of tonal values that give shape and form to the image. Knowing how to precisely apply modifications to light and shadow is key to fine-tuning a black-and-white photo. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some ways to shape and enhance the tonality of a black-and-white image with some quick and simple techniques.

Cioccolata Calda: Hot Chocolate Italian style

for the poor buggers around the world freezing in a winter of your discontent!

clipped from www.italymag.co.uk For many who have visited Italy during the colder months, cioccolata calda, or hot chocolate, is one of their fondest memories. And with excellent reason. of milk, sugar, a thickening agent like flour or corn starch, and, of course, chocolate (often in the form of cocoa powder), hot chocolate in Italy has nothing to do with the watery, sippable kind that you may have had elsewhere consistency of pudding, and the way to enjoy it is with a small spoon, one delicious mouthful at a time. Just be careful as it's quite hot! Here for your viewing and culinary pleasure, are three videos. The first two will get your tastebuds craving this creamy chocolate treat; the last will help you make it at home as it's a video of an Italian making cioccolata calda on the stove top--in English

how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you

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photo ...will be noticed for its composition

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Weathergirl prank - Your Isobars Make Me Horny

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situations where "oh SHIT!" is appropriate

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Can you guess what's special 'bout this Ad

clipped from www.stumbleupon.com observe the word "victory" more closely, you can find the word "defeat" hidden in it….

freaky sentences

clipped from www.stumbleupon.com The bandage was wound around the wound. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. I did not object to the object. The buck does funny things when the does are present To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row They were too close to the door to close it He could lead if he would get the lead out. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. The farm was used to produce produce. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. We must polish the Polish furniture.

China's 'Sky Train’ chugging to Tibet – the world's highest railway

like an iron dragon soaring on the Roof of the World. It is rightly called the "Sky Train." The 1,142-kilometer railway, which took four years to complete, is the last section of the 1,956-km Qingzang (Qinghai-Tibet) Railway from Xining to Lhasa, respectively the capital of Qinghai and Tibet. The first section, from Xining to Golmud, has been in operation since 1984.

It is the world's highest railway. Most parts of the new track from Golmud to Lhasa are located more than 4,000 meters above sea level, with the highest points at 5,072 meters. Construction of the US$5.5 billion railway was difficult because of the formidable challenge of frozen tundra, thin air and environmental protection.

It's nothing short of a miracle that these problems were overcome. Now, Tibet, which sits on the roof of the world, is no longer an isolated Shangri-la. It is estimated that nearly 3,000 passengers will arrive in Lhasa each day by train equipped with sealed, oxygenated cars

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incredible long hair

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10 words that shape your life

clipped from www.stumbleupon.com The Most Selfish " 1 " letter word " I " ---> Avoid It The Most Satisfying " 2 " letter word " We " ---> Use It The Most Poisonous " 3 " letter word " Ego" ---> Kill It The Most Used " 4 " letter word " LOVE " --> Value It The Pleasing " 5 " letter word " SMILE " --> Keep It The Fastest Spreading " 6 " letter word " RUMOUR " --> Ignore It The Hardest working " 7 " Letter word "SUCCESS " --> Achieve It The Most enviable " 8 " letter word " JEALOUSY " --> Distance It The Most Powerful " 9 " word letter word " KNOWLEDGE " --> Acquire It The Most essential " 10 " letter word " CONFIDENCE " -- > Trutst It

A house on the road

great mobil bus

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great storm photo

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best freeware reviewed and rated

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Free and Full Download Revo Uninstaller is completely free - no cost, no adware, no spyware; Download Revo Uninstaller Freeware Total size: 1.56 MB Current Version: 1.75 REVO uninstaller which does so much more than an uninstaller. http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.html and one I have used for years belarc advisor http://belarc.com/ The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. One of my favorites is WinPatrol- It won't let any .exe file load on your computer unless you specificall allow it. Download it here: http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html Great for protecting against spyware, malware and adware. nothing gets past it! WinPatrol Explorer

useful Oneliners and proverbs

clipped from www.oneliners-and-proverbs.com He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. He who angers you controls you! He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail. He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not as apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone! He who laughs last thinks slowest! He who slings mud looses ground. He who stands for nothing, falls for anything. Holding on to a hurt creates more hurt. Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future. Faith is having the courage to dance to it today. How do you start your days? Good morning Lord or Good Lord, morning. Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

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vintage photos of Mouline Rouge

burnt down in 1915?

clipped from community.livejournal.com 1889 1890 1890 1890 1890 1891 1891 1904 1904 1909 1909 1910 1912 suddenly, the set designs for the movie make so much more sense....

hand vagina - and baby

this is pointless but funny LMAO..so if you have NO humor then don't watch!

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fossil of first politician

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manhattan bridge construction

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passengers will remember this ride

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violence breeds violence

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Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics School

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Take wider-angle shots by creating mini-panoramas

clipped from lifehacker.com Panoramas aren't just for gigantic, wall-sized Grand Canyon shots or cheesy "virtual" apartment tours. For those sporting a standard digital camera that doesn't have much scope to its shots, free software panorama tools can help you capture great vistas the scenic kind and improve shots that might have some unfortunate objects or lighting problems. We previously detailed how to stitch photos into panormas with the free, open-source tool Hugin, which I prefer for its fine-grain controls. Windows users can also check out the much simpler AutoStitch.

This is how Santa arrives in Australia

santa arriving at Ramsgate Beach for the nippers

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How the Kennedy Empire was Built

I think there may be some interesting parallels and happenings that took place in 1912 and todays problems with greed and inside information that certain people are privy to.

clipped from www.ytedk.com How the Kennedy Empire was Built The following are excerpts from : The Sins of the Father - by Ronald Kessler The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal, and Secrets - by Nellie Bly - Joe's father, PJ Kennedy, was a saloon owner who used his bar as a launching pad for his political career. - In 1885, PJ was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, due in large part to the strong backing he received from the liquor lobby which was worried about the temperance movement. - PJ would serve five terms as a state representative before being elected to the Massachusetts Senate. PJ skillfully used his political power to enrich himself and advance the career of his son Joseph P Kennedy. "That bank examiner's job took him all over the state and laid bare the condition of every bank he visited. He acquired information of value to himself and others." While still on the state payroll as a bank examiner, Joe made an acquisition that was aided by inside information.

Copper Fixtures Kill 95% of Superbugs

clipped from www.drweil.com So I was pleased to learn of atrial that indicates that making door handles, sink fixtures and light switches from copper could help to keep hospitals sterile. A study found that copper fittings rapidly killed microbeson hospital wards, succeeding where other infection control measures failed. In the trial at Selly Oak hospital, in Birmingham, England, copper sink fixtures, toilet seats and push plates on doors all but eliminated common bacteria. Lab tests show that the metal kills off the deadly MRSA and C difficile superbugs. During the ten-week trial on a medical ward, a set of sink fixtures, a lavatory seat and a push plate on an entrance door were replaced with copper versions. They were swabbed twice a day for infectious agents and the results compared with a traditional sink fixture, lavatory seat and pushplate elsewhere in the ward. The copper items had up to 95 per cent fewer germs on their surfaces whenever they were tested.

"Still, most people are satisfied with the explanation that humans kiss because it feels good. Our lips and tongues are packed with nerve endings, which help intensify all those dizzying sensations of being in love when we press our mouths to someone else’s. Experiencing such feelings doesn’t usually make us think too hard about why we kiss – instead, it drives us to find ways to do it more often".

clipped from scienceline.org Why do humans kiss? clipped from content2.clipmarks.com A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual. Some say it is a learned behavior Others believe kissing is indeed an instinctive behavior Today, the most widely accepted theory of kissing is that humans do it because it helps us sniff out a quality mate. When our faces are close together, our pheromones “talk” – exchanging biological information about whether or not two people will make strong offspring. Women, for example, subconsciously prefer the scent of men whose genes for certain immune system proteins are different from their own. This kind of match could yield offspring with stronger immune systems, and better chances for survival Still, most people are satisfied with the explanation that humans kiss because it feels good. Our lips and tongues are packed with nerve endings, which help intensify all those dizzying sensations of being in love when we press our mouths to someone else’s

Huge Dinosaur Fossils Found in China

clipped from www.phenomenica.com Posted by mx in Prehistorical, Science clipped from www.stumbleupon.com Scientists preserve the fossil of a dinosaur excavated in Liudian township in Ruyang County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 9, 2008. Extremely large fossils of dinosaurs were discovered recently by scientists in an area in Ruyang County. The biggest fossil measures 3.3 meters long and 2.3 meters wide. According to the fossil of its bones, the dinosaur is supposed to be much bigger than the one found in last July, which was identified as Asia's Heaviest dinosaur. Scientists clean up the fossil of a dinosaur excavated in Liudian township in Ruyang County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 9, 2008.

12 Universities Offer Free Business Courses Online

Nice.

clipped from educhoices.org 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Free Undergraduate Business Courses Free Graduate Business Courses 2. University of California, Berkeley Fall 2008 Courses Spring 2008 Courses Fall 2007 Courses Spring 2007 Courses 3. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Free Accounting Courses Free Business Management Courses Free Business Planning Courses Free Finance Courses Free International Business Courses Free Marketing Courses 4. The Open University Free Business Management Courses 5. The University of Notre Dame Africana Studies American Studies Arabic and Middle East Studies Asian Studies Latino Studies 6. Carnegie Mellon University Free Carnegie Mellon Courses 7. Michigan State University Free International Business Courses 8. Utah State University Free Economics Courses 9. Trump University Free Business Plan Writing Course Free Start-Up Funding Course 10. University of Utah Principles of Microeconomics 11. Capilano College Introduction to Strategic Management 12. University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

Signs of the Times - great cartoons

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A Judge With Some Brains Stands The Tide

And now the Christians are crying persecution yet again.