posters : blasphemy (funny)
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Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular 
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291)
In this second lecture on On The Road,...
Saturday, February 28, 2009
1,227 words until the 1,000,000th Word
Global Language Monitor (GLM) documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English." The top of GLM's web site, http://www.languagemonitor.com/ , displays "The Million Word March" which shows an enumeration of the "words" they recognize as "Global English;" the count as of Dec. 30, 2008 was 998,762 words. When will this count reach one million?
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Friday, February 27, 2009
US economy sucks - Mexicans going home
given up on the American dream
Every Saturday for nearly four years, Elena Trujillo has gone to the local department store in Morelia, Michoacán, to pick up money wired home by her 34-year-old son, Ángel. This 59-year-old mother of three is one of the between 16 and 35 million Mexicans who depend on remittances from relatives in the United States to boost their incomes. But in late September -- for Trujillo and for countless others -- the wire transfers stopped coming. Confused at first, Trujillo was reassured by Ángel on the phone: Everything is OK; I have a surprise for you. The next week, Trujillo received another transfer, this one much larger than normal. She was ecstatic. Ángel's construction work must finally be paying dividends, she thought. Then, just a few days later, Ángel came back to Michoacán. "I couldn't believe it. He had given up and come home," Trujillo said. "He had given up on the American Dream."
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas-spectacular church
was built on a bridge which spans a spectacular gorge of the Guáitara River, is this gothic church. Legend has it that an image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the mid-18th century on an enormous rock above the river. Interestingly, the church has been constructed in such a way that the rock (and image) is its high altar. Pilgrims from all over Colombia and Ecuador journey here and, unsurprisingly, reports of miracles at the site are not uncommon.
Back in the eighteenth century a lady and her daughter discovered a cave with picture of Our Lady on the wall of the grotto... devotion to the image grew, a good road replaced the old trail. In the early 20th century a tasteful gothic church was built over the cave.
Back in the eighteenth century a lady and her daughter discovered a cave with picture of Our Lady on the wall of the grotto... devotion to the image grew, a good road replaced the old trail. In the early 20th century a tasteful gothic church was built over the cave.
 clipped from portable-parents-photos.comclipped from www.travelpod.comclipped from www.ipitimes.compicture of Our The child
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
making miniature
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Weird Fish With Transparent Head
a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
 clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com
clipped from news.nationalgeographic.comSince the eyes are upright tubes, "it just looked like [they only] looked straight up scientists discovered that the eyes can pivot, like a birdwatcher pointing binoculars.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads
Your ISP is where it starts
Go for healthy seeds and peers Get through the firewall Limit your upload rate Go to a different port Increase the number of Max Half Open TCP connections
Some common sense
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Friday, February 20, 2009
10 Highest Monuments around the World
1. Ushiku Daibutsu, Ushiku, Japan is the world's tallest freestanding bronze statue. Completed in 1995, it stands a total of 120m above the ground An elevator takes visitors up to 85m off the ground, where an observation floor 2. Buddhist statue of Guanyin, Sanya, China a 108-meter Buddhist statue of Guanyin. This statue was completed in May 2005 3. Yellow Chinese emperors Huangdi and Yandi, China 103 meters tall. 4. Motherland, Kiev, Ukraine a memorial of the Great Patriotic War (World War II). The statue itself is 62 meters tall 5. Statue of Peter I, Moscow, Russia 6. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York given to the United States by France in 1886 7. "The Motherland" statue, Volgograd, Russia the 84 meter tall, 7900 ton sculpture commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad and dedicated in 1967 8. Statue of Lanshan Buddha, Lanshan, China
9. Buddha of Bamyan, Afghanistan carved into the side of a cliff 55 meters tall. It were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 10. Christ the Redeemer
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rattlesnake bite
clipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgskin grafting been stapled to my arm. This skin was taken from my thigh. Holes were put in it in order to allow blood to flow onto the skin so it could attach to the tissue clipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgclipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgholes have begun to fill in with tissue clipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgclipped from www.rattlesnakebite.org5 months after the graph graft blends in with the surrouding skin clipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgclipped from www.rattlesnakebite.org22 months after the bite fingers and wrist now have full range of motion
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rattlesnake bite
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rattlesnake bite aftermath - cut open the arm
bitten by a Northern Pacific rattlesnake given 30 vials of antivenin underwent a fasciotomy, which involved the doctors cutting open my arm from the palm up to about the middle of my biceps. This was to relieve the extreme pressure that had built up in my arm had 8 surgeries performed for cleaning out the dead tissue from my arm, and finally had a skin graft from my leg to close up my arm clipped from www.rattlesnakebite.orgclipped from www.rattlesnakebite.org
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'Miracle' recovery astounds all
Mike Connolly's family and many of his nurses are calling him a miracle man heart stopped in late January and he lay in a coma for 96 hours before his family gave the OK to disconnect life support.
Connolly's pulmonary doctor, said it is not a stretch to call the sudden recovery miraculous
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Essential (and Free) Apps for Every New PC
32 of them
a list of what we think are the most essential PC apps are all free programs (except one) that should be immediately installed after a fresh build or reformat; 32 indispensable programs and utilities that we couldn't imagine computing without. From the best IM client to FTP browser and Notepad replacement, these essentials truly enhance the Windows experience WinDirStat AnyDVD Foxit PDF Reader VMWare Server Steam Dropbox
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
1 medium cauliflower
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Simple Cauliflower Soup Recipe
1 Bring water to a rolling boil Add the cauliflower florets, and cook until cooked through, about 4 minutes.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
naughty Chinese proverbs
War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left. Man who fight with wife all day Man who drive like hell bound Man who stand on toilet is high Man who keep feet firmly on It take many nails to build
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LIFE IN PRISON VS. FULL TIME JOB
In prison there are wardens who are often sadistic.
At work we have managers.
At work we have managers.
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funny pet ads
Pedigree Dentastix (1), France Marco Vet Dog Training School, Romania Brasa Pet Food, Czechoslovakia Pedigree Dentastix (2), France : Give Your Dog Stronger Teeth Shit Happens, Germany Pedigree Dentastix (3), France Pedigree Dog Treats, Great Britain Because Dogs Don't Always Have It Easy Because Dogs Don't Always Have It Easy IAMS Meal Chunks Help small dogs act BIG. International Organization for the Protection of Animals, Italy One of you betrays us 150,000 times every year. Pet Butler, Lexington, KY, US
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9 disturbing Ads
2. Concordia Children's Services
3. Lifebuoy Soap the tagline, "You eat what you touch" 4. Keimling Vegetarian Restaurant barfing up the food chain 5. McDonald's clowns scare the hell out of me
7. Just Liquid Hand Wash the maggots are bad enough He looks dead already 8. Just Liquid Hand Wash (Yep-again) 11. Play Station 2
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No Polar Bears On The Bus!
a huge polar bear poking his huge head into your repurposed school bus is the kind of thing to get some hearts racing.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
A Computer Repair Utility Kit You Can Run From a Thumb Drive
saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most of the applications don't require installation and the kit can be run directly from your thumb drive.
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Words with hidden messages. Groovy!
When you rearrange the letters..this is what you get:
William Shakespeare = I'll make a wise phrase
ASTRONOMER = MOON STARER
The Morse Code = Here Come Dots
Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
The Titanic disaster = Death, it starts in ice
The eyes = They see
Breasts = Bra sets
A Decimal Point = I'm a Dot in Place
Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z's
Princess Diana = end is a car spin
A Gentleman = Elegant Man
Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
Laxative = exit lava
Christmas = Trims cash
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
Garbage Man = Bag Manager
Great Torrent Search Engines
30 Kickass Torrent Search Engines for Hunting Torrents | Skidzopedia
Many a times people ask - Which is the best torrent search engine on the web? I find it very difficult to answer, as people have different likings and dis-likings about search engines. Keeping this preference in mind, I have compiled a list of 30 Torrent search engines that would suit all sorts of people. Let me know, if you like it!30 Kickass Torrent Search Engines for Hunting Torrents | Skidzopedia
Top 30 Torrent Search Engines
1. Isohunt
2. Mininova
3. BTjunkie
4. Demonoid
5. The Pirate Bay
6. BiteNova
7. Torrentportal
8. TorrentReactor
9. Torrentscan
10. Torrentmatrix
11. Bitsoup
12. Torrentz
13. Torrents.to
14. YouTorrent
15. Torrentbox
16. Scrapetorrent
17. TorrentBytes
18. Torrentreactor.to
19. FullDLS
20. ShareTV.org
21. NowTorrents
22. Scrapetorrent
23. Torrentmoon
24. Fenopy
25. Usniff
26. Gpirate
27. Torrentfinder
28. PizzaTorrent
29. ShareTV
30. TorrentLoop
31. ActiveDots by Saboom
32. Torrentech by Raziel
33. LegalTorrents by Cristian
34. Toorgle by Eazy
Mininova.org30 Kickass Torrent Search Engines for Hunting Torrents | Skidzopedia
activedots.com (used to be torrentpond.com).
It lets you search all of the torrent searches from one window
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Where every Valentine is a secret
Valentine's Day gifts in a Riyadh gift shop will be kept out of view of Saudi religious police inspectors.
six days before Valentine’s, and the popular gift shop had already been sanitised. “Yesterday, we removed red toys, hearts, red flowers because it’s prohibited to sell these things from February 1 to 14,” Like many others in his line of business was anticipating an unannounced inspection this week from the Saudi morals police who search for forbidden items.
they try to stop Saudis from celebrating Valentine’s Day, which they regard as an alien, un-Islamic festival.
many customers purchased them weeks ago when still openly displayed on shelves.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Shaun Carney = a lame article
Tears on demand | theage.com.au
Tears on demand
* Shaun Carney
* February 14, 2009
Members of Yellingbo CFA fight a bushfire in Chum Creek which resulted in saving four houses.
Members of Yellingbo CFA fight a bushfire in Chum Creek which resulted in saving four houses. Photo: Craig Abraham
TWENTY-SIX years ago next Monday, fires swept across south-eastern Australia, killing 75 people and destroying almost 3000 buildings in Victoria alone. The Ash Wednesday fires came during the second week of the 1983 federal election campaign and at the lowest point of what was the worst economic downturn in 50 years. The interaction between politics and natural disaster was very different back then.
Two days later, on Friday, February 18, prime minister Malcolm Fraser visited some of the bushfire sites. In the morning, he visited the Country Fire Authority control centre in Kooyong, walked to a neighbouring sports oval and boarded a RAAF Chinook helicopter with a small group of reporters and camera crews. In the space of a few hours, he visited Upper Beaconsfield, the Warburton area and Macedon.
Fraser did meet victims of the fires but because he wasn't able to spend much time on the ground before taking off for the next disaster zone, he spent a good deal of his hour or so at each place talking to officials, getting situation reports. I was then a reporter for Melbourne's afternoon paper, the Herald, and accompanied Fraser on that tour. If he betrayed any emotion on that day, I didn't see it.
This was not considered unusual. He was, after all, the prime minister, a man of mature years. There had been no great clamour for Fraser to deliver himself to the victims, nor do I recall any public criticism of him for waiting a full day before visiting the fire sites in his home state. He was an official and it was expected that his would be an official response.
We've come a very long way since then. There are some significant differences between the political circumstances of 1983 and 2009. For one thing, when Ash Wednesday happened, normal government operations had been suspended because of the election campaign. For another, the campaign itself had been suspended for several days because of the fires. So Fraser had to show a light touch. All the same, there was little appetite both in the political world and in the media for political leaders to become a fixture of the disaster.
Now, when disaster hits, there is no time to waste and few rhetorical or physical barriers that cannot be crossed. By Sunday, when many Australians were just learning of what had happened in Victoria, Kevin Rudd was already on the scene touring the fire towns with the Premier, John Brumby. And it was no bounce in, bounce out visit. He stayed for several more days.
Other ministers, including the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Minister for Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, also showed up. Pretty much as soon as he heard of the fires, Rudd rang Brumby and offered the assistance of the military. Soon after, the army and material started arriving and the Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, followed. At any given time for much of this week, there were several federal ministers at various fire scenes and marshalling points for the survivors.
It is now standard practice for political leaders to be filmed listening to the stories of disaster victims and then hugging or attempting to comfort them. The lachrymose breakdowns by our politicians are also becoming more common, as are the inevitably inadequate attempts to articulate sorrow and horror — inadequate because nothing can convey fully the awfulness of events such as those of last weekend.
It was not always like this. In 1974, then prime minister Gough Whitlam was on holiday in Greece when cyclone Tracy hit Darwin. He refused to break his vacation to return to Australia. Whitlam faced substantial public opprobrium for doing so, not so much because he wasn't interested in empathising with stricken fellow Australians but because it underscored the rising judgement that his government was out of control.
In 2009, mobile phones, the internet and the relentless drift towards the personalisation of news will not wait for politicians to respond. They are expected to react — and to react now, because there is no such thing any more as a daily news cycle; each day is filled with a bunch of micro news cycles. Politicians also must feel with us and do it straightaway, in plain sight.
This is not altogether a bad thing. They are, after all, there to represent the community. That's not just the community's views but its attitudes too. It has always been the role of political leaders to try to crystallise and express the perspectives of their times, and to interpret and shape contemporary events. They are expected to be on the scene, too. We need to see them working, to know that they understand.
But there are downsides, too. Feeling and empathy can only take you so far. And just being in the picture can often mean, well, simply that you've made it into the picture. It doesn't necessarily mean you've got the picture.
None of this is to criticise Rudd for his quick response to the fires and the profound human tragedy they wrought. But it is an attempt to raise a caution against a process that increasingly values above everything else the questions "how do you feel?" and "what's your story?", and the willingness of today's political leaders to entangle themselves in that process.
Human drama is compelling, for sure. But within a few weeks, even this awful disaster will have been drained of its component of drama. For a lot of the media, it will be last month's story. Only the hard issues of rebuilding and administration and fire safety practices will be left. These will be tougher for the media to report and for the politicians to reconcile.
This was supposed to be the Information Age, but it hasn't quite turned out that way; politics and public debate are becoming more emotional. In the past few days, for example, some people writing to this paper have said Rudd will be to blame for any future bushfires because his carbon reduction targets are not high enough — as if Australia, acting alone, could have any impact on the specific effect of climate change on one corner of this continent. Conversely, the attacks on councils, state authorities and environmentalists for wanting to preserve trees and sheeting home the blame for last weekend's destruction to them have been just as bone-headed.
This is why politicians should tread warily when they step beyond policy into the realms of personality and "feelings". Emotions can be like wildfire. They can head in one direction and then, inexplicably, unpredictably, turn back the other way, consuming all in their path.
Shaun Carney is associate editor.
What do you write about when all has been written about a disaster? Tears on Demand?? This would have been at best a self engrossed piece about the stretches some journo's take. However, this fool obviously did not see channel nine's Stefanovic cornering RUdd and basically forcing him to shed an emotion, just the way that Brumby did. Idiots.
Marcus Padley =what to say when you have nothing intelligent to say
It's the journey that counts, not the destination
It's the journey that counts, not the destination
Marcus Padley
February 14, 2009
ITHACA is the island in Greece that Odysseus had so much trouble returning to in Homer's Odyssey. On his way he survives run-ins with the Cicones, Polyphemus (Cyclops to you), Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, the winds of Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, Zeus, Poseidon and Calypso.
A rough trot, and when he gets there no one recognises him, everyone's cracking on to his wife, she won't have him back and he has to kill everyone. Hardly a great homecoming. In fact you wonder why he bothered.
Thankfully a Greek called Constantine Kavafis wrote a poem in 1911 explaining it. It was called Ithaca. You may know it. Here is a bit of it.
Keep Ithaca always in your mind..
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.
Ithaca gave you the marvellous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean
Turns out that life's destination isn't much, but it doesn't matter. It is what you do on the way. That old chestnut. It is better to travel than to arrive. It is the journey not the destination. And so it is. I sit on the road to Ithaca.
My road consists of an office, full of people I have not chosen, in an industry that chose me, doing little more heroic than pushing electrons around on two big computer screens that really can't be healthy.
In fact I'm doing it now. If Odysseus came into the office I, and all my colleagues, would rightly be shamed in his presence for all that we have not done. I'm sure Odysseus could have chosen the path of a stockbroker, but he didn't. Our journey is not heroic.
Then there is my father. He is getting on. He is 75. He was a wing commander in the RAF and more topically spent a three-year posting on an RAAF base in Sale in Victoria flashing around in de Havilland Vampire jets, spotting bushfires, teaching people to fly and generally ripping it up like Tom Cruise on Valium. He had stories, his Cyclops, his Poseidon (Suez Crisis) and a few Sirens I'm sure. He is closer to Odysseus than I and for that I am proud. Just to have had Dad as my example.
He has journeyed well and I hope that has made him "so full of experience" that, as he comes closer to Ithaca, he now knows to continue the ride, rather than dwell on where it all got him, when the destination will arrive and how scared that makes him. I can but hope.
Meanwhile, back in the office, I am trying to live a life "full of adventure, full of discovery" in an environment that doesn't naturally lend itself to a danger that "keeps your thoughts raised high", offers "rare excitement" and generates a fear that "stirs your spirit and your body".
Then along came the bear market. Suddenly the journey has become more interesting. We have entered places we are "seeing for the first time" and it is full of discovery and adventure, and by the time we reach the island, yes, we'll be wealthy with all we've gained on the way, but it won't be in dollars, and unlike our Greek friend, we think it'd be better if it didn't last for years.
I know people who are not entirely happy with where they have got to on this journey. They now fear their destination because of what the journey has recently done to them.
But while there is breath in our bodies we are still travelling and this is not the end. And the destination, I know, will not be measured in dollars.
Marcus Padley is a stockbroker with Patersons Securities and the author of the daily stockmarket newsletter Marcus Today. www.marcustoday.com.au
Padley wears a huge L on his forehead, due to the fact that all that he writes about does not include smart stockbroking ideas...lucky it's an easy gig and he relies on a past that has more blemishes than his modern stories.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Guide to Building a Computer from Scratch
notes for first-timers who want to build instead of buy their next computer
I turned to savvy Lifehacker readers to help me out. Several readers mentioned Ars Technica's excellent system buyer's guide, which breaks down exactly what parts you'd want for one of three levels of computer: a "budget box," a "hot rod," or a "God box." The 2008 guide published last fall; make sure you use the most recent one when you start your research. I started by plugging parts from Ars' "hot rod" system list into Newegg to get a sense of price
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song "burn" wrong title at the wrong time
with respect to the bushfire disaster
TEEN chart-topper Jessica Mauboy has learnt about unfortunate timing. Her song Burn has gone from being the fourth most played song on Australian radio last week to being removed from most commercial radio playlists because of its title.
clipped from www.news.com.au
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
whale
Human sacrifice to the whale gods. clipped from farm4.static.flickr.comclipped from forums.whirlpool.net.auwhale gods were happy with that... clipped from farm4.static.flickr.com
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Carl Orff, a music born out of nazi-ism
the piece...Carmina Burana is very famous
Carl Orff (1895-1982) must be counted one of the most successful of Those four triumphant chords followed by a whispered chant and its In spite of Orff’s success histories no The women in his life speak, without bitterness, of a man who was Orff may have despised the Nazis for their lack of aesthetic prospered under the Third Reich. He Carmina Burana was a great success with the Nazis, Carmina Burana itself is supposed to be accompanied Orff was fascinated by puppets
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Monday, February 9, 2009
yale courses free on youtube
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
i pledge allegiance to Obama
creepy actually...hollywood and co pledge to come round make everyting alright....ergh!
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
dance really does bring the world happiness
apperently matt was a really rich man but not happy so he went to stride and told them that he knows a way that will make everyone happy that it was to dance u didnt have to be rich to dance u just dance so they sponsored him to go over the world and dance
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Tribe of Ukrainian Fighting Women
clipped from www.divinecaroline.com
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Friday, February 6, 2009
30 cool Web-based Photo Editors
Photoshop Express
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
How to Photograph a Sunrise
4:45am. After a few moments, your groggy mind remembers why you set your alarm in the first place. Still dark out. But it won’t be for long.
Shutter Speed (TV) = 20 seconds ISO = 100 White balance = Shade File type = RAW
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Free & Paid Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
check out Photoshop alternatives first to see if there’s another less expensive software out there that will suit your needs for a lesser price tag, or even for free.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
digital camera Glossary
Digital Imaging
AliasingTuesday, February 3, 2009
ALBINO ANIMALS
A white killer whale is spotted near Kanaga Volcano in Central Aleutian Islands.
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Lighthouse Vs. Huge Waves video
Lighthouse Vs. Epic Waves . As cool as it is frightening. Each wave crashes violently against the lighthouse, and yet it still stands defiant.
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One of the best stop-motions video
Sweet Stop-Motion Video. A great clip by someone called Oren Lavie. The music`s quirky and cool, but the stop-motion is what wins points here. it`s Brightening up my day
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Monday, February 2, 2009
2009 Premierleague CLUBS WHO PARTED WITH THE MOST CASH IN THE JANUARY WINDOW
we'll see if man city and spurs realise a dream - staying up in the league
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12 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU POP ANY VITAMIN OR NUTRIENT PILLS
12 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU POP ANY VITAMIN OR NUTRIENT PILLS PILLS | Health Care 4 Me
It seems that every other week, we are told another miracle that is carried out by vitamins. Vitamin C will stave off colds; vitamin E will help prevent Alzheimer’s, and Vitamin D will treat cancer. Exactly how much of this is true is unknown, as there is a lot of conflicting evidence from clinical research that is available. Each vitamin does have a specific purpose in our bodies. Some may even positively affect us in ways that are unknown. But before you pop those pills, take a look to see which vitamins you get enough of from your diet, which you may need to supplement, and some of the harmful effects caused by vitamin overindulgence.
1) Vitamin/Nutrient name: Biotin
Function: Coenzyme (helper to enzyme function) in the synthesis of fat, glycogen and amino acids
Recommended Daily Value: 20-30 micrograms/day
Contained in foods: Biotin is in li