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Clipmarks | Live ClipsVolunteering isnt only happy but healthyclipped by: HeavenYouraVolunteering is an opportunity to be socially engaged and contribute to the lives of others It?s not material goods that make us happy?it?s having purpose and meaning in our lives In fact, some recent research suggests that we?re actually hard-wired for helping. Even thinking about helping others is enough to stimulate the part of our brain associated with feel-good chemicals like oxytocin.
Helping others doesn?t just make us happier, there?s also evidence it makes us healthier too cities with higher rates of volunteerism had the lower rates of depression and heart disease Don?t have a lot of free time? No worries. People who volunteer just two hours per week (100 hours per year) enjoy lower rates of depression and better physical health Tags: mentality  zum Artikel...
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Texas overtakes Kansas! (What an accomplishment)
clipped by: BobbyRutanclippers remarks: More: The state?s commissioner of higher education, Raymund A. Paredes, said late Monday that he was aware of the institute?s opposition to evolution but was withholding judgment until the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board meets Jan. 24 to rule on the recommendation, made last Friday, by the board?s certification advisory council.
Asked how the institute could educate students to teach science, Dr. Paredes, who holds a doctorate in American civilization from the University of Texas and served 10 years as vice chancellor for academic development at the University of California, said, ?I don?t know. I?m not a scientist.?
Complete Moron
zum Artikel...The Booze Bus - Should We Pay?
clipped by: book-moleclippers remarks: I think that if you get this legless and need help, you should be charged. Learn when to stop. Learn HOW to stop.
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zum Artikel...Congress Averts Higher Tax Bill for Middle Class
clipped by: wjbuntzclippers remarks: Ill be darned. Congress CAN pass something useful.
WASHINGTON ? Congress on Wednesday gave final approval to a plan that will spare millions of middle-class taxpayers higher taxes in the coming months. The White House welcomed the development and said President Bush would sign the bill.
The tax reprieve postpones for one year only an expansion of the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system enacted in 1969 to prevent very wealthy investors from using deductions and tax shelters to avoid paying income tax altogether. The alternative tax has ensnared a growing number of middle-class Americans in recent years because the 1969 law was not indexed to inflation.
Without the fix by Congress, some 25 million filers would have to pay the tax on their 2007 income, up from 4 million who paid it this year, according to the White House.
The Bush administration took a swipe at Congress, saying that the late action by lawmakers might still cause delayed refunds for up to 38 million filers.
zum Artikel...Biggest U.S. Solar Panel Farm Opens
clipped by: BobbyDelrayThere are bigger solar farms in the United States, but they are concentrated solar thermal projects that use mirrors to heat water rather than to use panels to convert sunlight to electricity.
The Alamoso solar project in the southern part of central Colorado, near the border with New Mexico, will generate about 17,000 megawatt hours each year, enough no-emissions power to serve about 1,500 homes.
zum Artikel...Bush: No Ideology Other than Greed
clipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: This cracks me up.
So: are right wingers strict-constructionists, decentralizing as much as possible and protecting states rights or big government federalists using consolidated power to engineer their ideal society?
Depends on the issue:
Prohibiting Abortion: Federalist
unless it is a state trying to ignore Roe v Wade, in which case: States Rights
Integrating Schools: States Rights
Unless it comes to Federal support for segregation: Federalists
Marijuana decriminalization: Federalist
Unless your state institutes ridiculously draconian and probably unconstitutional punishments: States Rights
Gun Ownership: States Rights
Unless unless you are Washington DC and pass restrictive gun control laws: Federalists
Environmental Protection: States Rights
Unless your state actually tries to protect the environment at the expense of big business: Federalist
These guys believe in nothing, they just use any ideology they can to justify whatever it is the want.
EPA denies California emissions waiver
DETROIT: The Bush administration said Wednesday night that it would deny Californias bid to set stricter vehicle emissions standards than federal law required as part of the states efforts to fight climate change.
Stephen Johnson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said he planned to deny the states application for a waiver from federal law that the state had sought more than two years ago.
"The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution ? not a confusing patchwork of state rules," Johnson told reporters on a conference call. "I believe this is a better approach than if individual states were to act alone."
The E.P.As decision was a victory for the American auto companies, and came just hours after President George W. Bush signed legislation that will raise fuel economy standards by 40 percent to 35 miles a gallon in 2020.
zum Artikel...Cosmic explosion detonates in empty space
clipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: Another "WOW"
Astronomers are puzzling over a powerful cosmic explosion that seems to have detonated in a region of empty space, far away from any nearby galaxy. It may have been the death cry of a star that was born from debris strewn out of a past galactic dustup.
Six spacecraft around Earth and Mars detected a powerful volley of gamma rays lasting about a minute on 25 January 2007. Such explosions, called long gamma-ray bursts, are thought to be caused when massive stars explode and their cores collapse into black holes.
zum Artikel...UN passes death penalty moratorium
clipped by: masburyclippers remarks: "to promote and strengthen the growing trend"
The United Nations General Assembly has approved a measure to abolish the death penalty. The final vote was one-hundred and four to fifty four. Mexican UN envoy Claude Heller said the vote should encourage a global moratorium on state executions.
Claude Heller: ?The purpose of this resolution is not to interfere in or impose our views on others. Our intention is to promote and to strengthen the growing trend towards the elimination of the death penalty.?
zum Artikel...A surge of their own: Iraqis take back the streets
clipped by: CrazyRedHeadclippers remarks: "Attacks plummet as Shias join Sunnis in neighbourhood patrols to tackle militants and reunite communities"
Back at the barricade, Muhammad said he had no intention of joining the police or army. "All I want to do is row along the beautiful Tigris and live in peace," he said.
zum Artikel...Laws of Nature, Source Unknown
clipped by: wildcatclippers remarks: The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In talks and papers recently he has speculated that mathematics does not describe the universe ? it is the universe.
Dr. Tegmark maintains that we are part of a mathematical structure, albeit one gorgeously more complicated than a hexagon, a multiplication table or even the multidimensional symmetries that describe modern particle physics. ?Everything in our world is purely mathematical ? including you,? he wrote in New Scientist.
?Gravity,? goes the slogan on posters and bumper stickers. ?It isn?t just a good idea. It?s the law.?
And what a law. Unlike, say, traffic or drug laws, you don?t have a choice about obeying gravity or any of the other laws of physics. Jump and you will come back down. Faith or good intentions have nothing to do with it.
Existence didn?t have to be that way, as Einstein reminded us when he said, ?The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.? Against all the odds, we can send e-mail to Sri Lanka, thread spacecraft through the rings of Saturn, take a pill to chase the inky tendrils of depression, bake a turkey or a soufflé and bury a jump shot from the corner.
Yes, it?s a lawful universe. But what kind of laws are these, anyway, that might be inscribed on a T-shirt but apparently not on any stone tablet that we have ever been able to find?
zum Artikel...Panel threatens to subpoena CIA Oficers
clipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: The CIA have agreed to provide documents regarding the destruction of the interrogation tapes. Theyll be subpoenaed if they dont. Seems a bit pointless.
The Administration want a delay because they want to finish their investigation first. If theres any more evidence, they want to make sure they find it before anyone else.
The House Intelligence Committee threatened on Wednesday to subpoena two top CIA officials to testify about the destruction of interrogation videotapes, rejecting a Bush administration request that the panels inquiry be deferred while the executive branch investigates.
Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said he wants acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo and Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the National Clandestine Service, to testify to the committee on Jan. 16. Rodriguez is the official who directed that the tapes, which document the harsh interrogation of two al-Qaida suspects in 2002, be destroyed.
zum Artikel...Bush lawyers implicated in Gitmo video scandal
clipped by: masburyclippers remarks: And US District Judge had ordered evidence kept
zum Artikel...An Electronic Ink Watch
clipped by: Andy Greenbergclippers remarks: This watch, which uses the same e-pigment as Amazons Kindle, is a little bit impressive...just dont ask it to tell time in the dark.
The Phosphor E Ink watch costs about $250 and features the same e-ink technology found in the Kindle. You can choose one of 14 different face configurations, including white-on-black, and can potentially support two time zones because the analog and digital watches aren?t synced. The best thing is that the battery should last for years simply because of the low power consumption of the e-ink face. There were also some complaints:
That said, the Phosphor E Ink watch is probably not the last or only watch you?ll ever need. I found the analog quartz movement and digital modules to be merely adequate, and the lack of any type of illumination system, including luminescent paint, is a blatant omission. However it?s a very nice looking, reasonably comfortable, extremely unique watch and high-tech fashion accessory which is certain to amaze almost everyone you know.
No lume = bad.
zum Artikel...Altar Boy Defense Tips
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zum Artikel...Felicia Langer - a Jewish advocate against the oppression of the Palestinian people
clipped by: Johanna_Gclippers remarks:
Her tireless and unrelenting commitment made her the target of attacks from fellow Israelis who could not understand that her actions against oppression and discrimination were basically in the interest of the Israeli people. [...]
Early on she had predicted violent reactions against the ongoing occupation. Therefore the outbreak of the first intifada did not surprise her. As her work and endeavours became more and more fruitless, she closed down her [lawyers] office in 1990 in protest to make public that the legal system in Israel had become a farce. She emigrated to Germany. [...]
Her main concern has always been a just and fair peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, and for this goal she is still as active as before, writing books and articles, giving interviews and lectures [...] etc.
[...]
In March 2005, Felicia Langer was awarded with the "Erich-Mühsam-Prize" for her continuous struggle for the human rights of the Palestinian people.
zum Artikel...How the Truth Gets Framed by the Camera
clipped by: harayaclippers remarks: Photo caption:
Thomas Hoepker, who took this photograph on September 11, 2001, later wondered, Was the picture "just the devious lie of a snapshot, which ignored the seconds before and after I had clicked the shutter?"
(Photograph by Thomas Hoepker, Magnum Photos)
"The devious lie of a snapshot" is a marvelous phrase. It is not the photographer who is devious, but the nature of the snapshot itself, which isolates and freezes action, disconnecting it from context and sequence. Photographs seduce us into believing that they are objective records, but, in fact, all images are interpretations, texts that must be read.
What every photographer captures is of the moment and beyond it, random and in odd ways determined, fixed yet always changing. Amateurs and professionals alike bring to the camera a life immersed in images. When one of their pictures becomes a cultural icon, it is because it is original but also commonplace, unique and yet somehow familiar. The best photographs inform and move us. They allow us to enter a frozen instant of time and somehow make it our own.
zum Artikel...Real Estate Empire
clipped by: clipommerclippers remarks: This is a good game!After i was done my wrist hurt like HELL!!lol
zum Artikel...The Tuttles: Madcap Misadventures
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zum Artikel...Some more changes for Clipmarks
clipped by: egoldsteinclippers remarks: So, last week we went live with Clipmarks 3.0; a HUGE set of new features, functionality and user interface changes. This was definitely the most challenging time we ever experienced, as it literally felt like there were a million pieces to the assemble. Overall, I feel really good about how everything went. That said, there were a few things I wish we handled better. Tonight, we?re introducing the first in a series of updates aimed at improving upon the initial release of V3.0. These are based in large part on amazing feedback we received from our users.
Thank you to everyone for giving us your feedback and caring so much about Clipmarks. We?ve got a lot more coming?
Clip on!
zum Artikel...Forclosures up 68% in Nov: Good News?
clipped by: dgreplayLOS ANGELES - U.S. homeowners increasingly failed to keep up with their home loan payments in November, as the number of foreclosure filings surged 68 percent nationwide compared with the same month a year ago, according to a mortgage research company.
Last months filings fell 10 percent from Octobers 224,451.
"Its a little bit of good news in the otherwise murky real estate market right now," said Rick Sharga, RealtyTracs vice president of marketing. "The fact that were seeing a 10 percent decrease is significant. Its a good thing."
zum Artikel...Shorty Crater Panorama
clipped by: book-mole 2007 December 14
Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA; Panorama Assembly: Mike Constantine
Explanation: In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This sharp panorama is digitally stitched together from pictures taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the valley floor. Starting with a view of the imposing South Massif, scrolling the panorama to the right will reveal Schmitt and the lunar rover at the edge of Shorty Crater, near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. The Apollo 17 crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil samples, more than was returned from any of the other lunar landing sites. Now thirty five years later, Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk on the Moon.
zum Artikel...Top 20 Science Stories of 2007
clipped by: abailartzum Artikel...Forget eHarmony, meet Scientific Match
clipped by: DevilInTheDetailsclippers remarks: This has got to be the most ridiculous use of science I have ever seen. Watch out ladies, no birth control allowed.
Dean Hamer, the molecular biologist and author credited with discovering "gay genes."
"That sounds like a complete and utter rip-off that preys on peoples lack of knowledge of causation and correlation,"
zum Artikel...Little known facts about Pigeon
clipped by: dakotayiiclippers remarks: I use to think little about Pigeon until a few years ago someone told me a story about Pigeons. Here is my contribution. Enjoy
Pigeons As Rescuers
zum Artikel...Simple Tips for Bigger Mozilla Firefox Screen
clipped by: fraaaTip #1 - Use Small Icons
If you really understand what all those icons mean on your toolbar, make it smaller. Size does not matter here. Make it smaller by clicking the menu bar and View -> Toolbars -> Customize -> Use Small Icons.
Tip #2 - Clear Out Unnecessary Toolbars
Tip #3 - Hit F11 on keyboard
Tip #4 - Install FullerScreen
Tip #5 - Consolidate Mozilla Firefox?s Chrome
Tip #6 - Install Tiny Menu
TinyMenu is a Firefox extension that will replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup. Combine this with Tip #5 above and you will get a bigger screen size!
Tip #7 - Install MiniFox Firefox Theme
This is one of the quickest way to get small menu and toolbars that will guarantee a bigger Mozilla Firefox screen. Get Minifox Theme here.
zum Artikel...Tennis Star All Tied up!
clipped by: BlogtainmentMOSCOW (AP) -- Russian tennis star Anna Chakvetadze was tied up by masked robbers who broke into her home Tuesday and stole money and goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, her father said.
Chakvetadze, ranked No. 6 and a 2007 U.S. Open semifinalist, was bound for 30 minutes in her home outside Moscow but not seriously hurt, NTV television reported.
zum Artikel...The World Clock
clipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: The kind of thing you need if you want to celebrate the new year in every time zone. There are more city times on the home page.
| Large World Clock | Capitals | Custom Clock | Weather | Search Meeting Planner | Converter | Fixed, Past, Future Time | Personal World Clock Africa | North America | South America | Asia | Australia/Pacific | Europe Current local times around the world (Main list) |
| Currently sorted by city name. Change: Sort by Country | Sort by Time Zone Set your preferred time and date formats - e.g. 12 hour am/pm or 24 hour |
More information
Related links
- Search for some other city
- Personal World Clock - shows just the cities you need
- Meeting Planner - find a suitable time for an international meeting
- Time Zone Converter - Convert time between two time zones.
- Fixed time clock - convert between many time zones - in past or future
zum Artikel...Deer put toe in water, turned into whale
clipped by: pokketsWhales, dolphins and porpoises evolved from a tiny deer-like mammal that adapted to living at sea millions of years ago, a new study says.
Whales are long suspected to have originated from four-footed mammals called artiodactyls that walked on land in South Asia and gradually adapted to live in the sea.
Evidence to back this comes from fossils of even-toed ungulates, artiodactyls that spread their weight on their third and fourth toes, which date from before the emergence of the whales, and of whale fossils that date from the first 10 million years of whale evolution.
zum Artikel...The end of the world as we know it...
clipped by: graphictruthclippers remarks: For the sake of cool...
zum Artikel...Toilet Paper Wedding Dress
clipped by: carrerinyes
Bride Jennifer Cannon shows off the back of her wedding dress made from 7 rolls of toilet paper by designer Hanah Kim (a designer for Anne Klein) before she was married at the Charmin Restrooms, a free public restroom facility in Times Square, in New York, December 19, 2007.
zum Artikel...Their Work Cut Out For Them
clipped by: rfnajerazum Artikel...Apple shuts down Think Secret?!
clipped by: ericskiffclippers remarks: Wow - Im a pretty big Apple fan, and I agree that some of the news that has been leaked has been a little overboard lately, but this seems crazy.
ThinkSecret was a source where people salivated over even flimsy details promising new shiny gadgets to buy from Apple, and probably did more for them than any "Im a mac" spot ever could. Now Apple themselves have sued them out of existence.
Boneheads.
zum Artikel...Top 10 Quote 07
clipped by: dakotayiiclippers remarks: I like i have a wide stand" by Senator Larry Craig of Idaho
-10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." - Former president Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration.
zum Artikel...Thisname: The Drinking Game
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406Adam- You need to drink a beer for every clip about beer you have. Once youve done that you need to take a shot for every pop that each clip garners.Ouch -- thats 22 shots AFTER I down a dozen beers! Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime drinking game... as in, I play it once and either die or develop an allergy to alcohol that means I can never take another sip.
zum Artikel...Radiohead $$$ In Rainbows
clipped by: juliapatriciaroyclippers remarks: I think that is pretty amazing that they made more money on In Rainbows than all of their other Radiohead albums put together.
David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music
Byrne: Are you making money on the download of In Rainbows?
Yorke: In terms of digital income, weve made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever ? in terms of anything on the Net. And thats nuts. Its partly due to the fact that EMI wasnt giving us any money for digital sales. All the contracts signed in a certain era have none of that stuff.
zum Artikel...Absurdities Of Imagination
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zum Artikel...From Little Things, Big Things Grow
clipped by: debbyskiclippers remarks: If the title doesnt fit this clip, then Ill explain the meaning. Its funny how the simplest random act of kindness can be so powerful to me. It can literally move me to tears. Like someone giving me this clip. I cant take credit where credit is due. Again, random acts of kindness are what make us better human beings. My New Years resolution is to try to be a better human being. Its an entirely selfish one you know. It not only makes me feel better about myself. It hopefully makes me grow as a person. Thank you.
This bar in the trunk of a Baobab has punters travelling from miles around for a brew.
But tourists flock to see the amazing bar inside the hollow 155ft circumference of the trunk.
The tree even has its own cellar, with natural ventilation to keep the beer cool.
The huge tree, in the grounds of Sunland Farm, is so wide it takes 40 adults with outstretched arms to encircle it.
Carbon-dating, which can determine the age of organic materials, has shown the anicent tree is about 6,000 years old. "This tree is likely to be older than the Giza Pyramids of Egypt," said Heather van Heerden, owner of Sunland Farm.
"It is phenomenal to have such a magnificent tree in your back garden. It is possibly the biggest living thing on earth."
zum Artikel...Homes for Sale Houston TX
clipped by: rajanmrclippers remarks: Houston Texas real estate, Homes For Sale Houston Tx Search Houston Homes within Houston MLS. Top
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zum Artikel...Biggest Loser Season 4 Winner
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zum Artikel...Coming out of the closet
clipped by: champagnesheikclippers remarks: So true
zum Artikel...One for the Guys, Tila picks Boy!
clipped by: Blogtainment
Its a decision that undoubtedly will add fuel to those rumors that Tila was never a bisexual as she claims. But if thats the case, she did a great acting job because she obviously formed a very strong bond with Dani over the course of the show and Dani was pretty broken up after being rejected last night.
For the record, Tila, in a recent interview, said she dated girls exclusively when she was young and didnt "experience a guy" until late in high school.
zum Artikel...Verb
clipped by: rajnishp
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| Prompt: | In addition to words of action, verbs are also words that state a fact or condition and show no action. These words are known as state-of-being verbs. | ||
| Example: | In the sentence, "That man is my father," the word "is" is a state-of-being verb. The most common state-of-being verbs are: am, are, is, were, was. | ||
| Directions: | Listed below are groups of action verbs and state-of-being verbs. Read each group of words and click to select only the state-of-being verbs in each word group. | ||
zum Artikel...Essential Bluetooth hacking tools
clipped by: gigajoshclippers remarks: Just for fun people
BTCrawler -BTCrawler is a scanner for Windows Mobile based devices. It scans for other devices in range and performs service query. It implements the BlueJacking and BlueSnarfing attacks. Download BTCrawler.
CIHWB - Can I Hack With Bluetooth (CIHWB) is a Bluetooth security auditing framework for Windows Mobile 2005. Currently it only support some Bluetooth exploits and tools like BlueSnarf, BlueJack, and some DoS attacks. Should work on any PocketPC with the Microsoft Bluetooth stack. Download CIHWB.
zum Artikel...Nana has changed!
clipped by: Ravi_Karandeekarzum Artikel..."But I cant Sell"
clipped by: Tali99clippers remarks: How one little girl-talk changed my whole career!
zum Artikel...Small Nuclear Reactors
clipped by: rj3spSmall Nuclear
The Toshiba 4S (Super Safe, Small and Simple) is a ?nuclear battery? reactor design. It requires only minimal staffing.
zum Artikel...UFOs over Haiti
clipped by: covertopsseUFOs over Haiti
zum Artikel...Sustainable Living Skills
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zum Artikel...Mind-Reading Games Just in Time for Christmas ? 2008
clipped by: wildcat
Whats going on inside that head of yours? Thats nobodys business, of course -- except, perhaps, for companies planning to roll out games and gadgets with supposed "brainwave-reading" capabilities.
Among them is Sega Toys in Japan, which makes Brain Trainer, a portable electronic device with various mind-expanding exercises that retails for about $30. Last week Sega announced it will incorporate bio-signal-reading technology from San Jose-based startup NeuroSky into unspecified products.
While NeuroSkys technology is available now, dont expect to find mind-reading toys or videogames at Toys R Us just yet. Thats because NeuroSkys technology is aimed at manufacturers and developers, and it will take awhile before products incorporating the technology reach the market.
zum Artikel...ScamFraudAlert
clipped by: Socratoadclippers remarks: When in doubt check it out.
zum Artikel...Why dont we get cancer all the time?
clipped by: wildcatzum Artikel...Unsupervised children are more sociable and more active
clipped by: wildcatclippers remarks: Professor Mackett goes on to say: ?Fears over road safety and ?stranger danger? need to be balanced against soaring levels of childhood obesity and poor health. Letting a child out to play is one of the best things a parent can do for their child?s physical health and personal development.
zum Artikel...Thats !!* on Nasdaq
clipped by: graphictruthclippers remarks: On a olde-typme teleprinter, !!* sounds exactly like "BANG! BANG! SPLAT!"
And so they have ever been known to mankind, even after the reference loses all meaning, save to those collectors of obscurities, such as your humble scribe.
At Acme Laboratories, here on the outskirts of the desert, a team of genetically modified, hyper-intelligent rodents are working around the clock on their next big product: Acme Internet in a Box.
"The difficult thing isnt getting it to work properly," says The Brain, the projects lead lab mouse. "Nearly anyone can create a stable Internet connection these days. The tough thing is getting it to fail properly--and spectacularly--at the worst possible time. Our dream product would literally catch on fire just as you are uploading a project youd spent weeks working on. It would be a bonus if it took down a couple of major Web sites in the process."
zum Artikel...Crafting a Terry Cat
clipped by: skwirlinatorTerry cat Making
You may embroider eyes instead of buttons.
Stuffed cats gallery
Tabby kitten / Persian / Mini cat / Kitten / Gray and white
Angora / Munchkin / Scottish Fold / La Perm / Russian Blue
zum Artikel...How to Bind a Hardback Book
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Book Binding
zum Artikel...From Bambi to Moby-Dick: how a small deer evolved into the whale
clipped by: JohnWatermanFossil hunters have discovered the remains of the earliest ancestor of the modern whale: a small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons and munched on vegetation.
The evolutionary path of the whale is one of the most extraordinary on record. In less than 10m years, the whales ancestors completely transformed as they shifted from a four-legged life on land to a life in the ocean.
zum Artikel...Brain Cells More Powerful Than You Think
clipped by: wildcat(HealthDay News) -- The human brain constantly sorts through its 1 trillion cells, looking for perhaps only one or a handful of neurons to carry out a particular action, a trio of new studies says.
Before these insights, "The thinking was that very large ensembles of neurons [brain cells] had to be activated at some point for the animal to feel or perceive" a stimulus, explained the senior researcher of two of the studies, Karel Svoboda, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Va.
"But it turns out that a remarkably small number -- on the order of 50 or so activated neurons -- is sufficient to drive reliable behaviors," said Svoboda, who is also associated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in New York.
zum Artikel...Stephen Hawking meets his double
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zum Artikel...BALI: People Power Confronts Climate Change
clipped by: linden_marieclippers remarks: more......
The world is used to letting the US have its way, but not this time. The assembled delegations let loose a chorus of boos. Nation after nation took the floor and sounded the chords of outrage. Just like hundreds of thousands of Avaaz members told them to do, our leaders stood firm.
Faced with this united front, the American representative asked to take the floor once more, and said simply, "The United States will join the consensus."
THE STAKES - A Year of Campaigns Lead to Bali
THE PRESSURE - Bringing the Global Voice to Bali
THE CRISIS - US, Canada, Japan Block Consensus
THE RESPONSE - A Global People Power Moment
THE RESULT - The Climate Wreckers Back Down |
zum Artikel...Destroy yourself
clipped by: vickybaranwalzum Artikel...Christmas card arrives 93 years late!
clipped by: caissie_tab
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
Thats how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethels sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin ? the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldnt have covered it, Martin said.
"We dont know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
zum Artikel...Breakthrough battery promises much longer life
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An empoyee of Toshiba displays a new Lithium-ion battery "SCiB" (Super Charge ion Battery), which can recharge to 90 percent of full capacity in less than five minutes.
Photo: AFP
A new battery that goes on sale next year can be fully recharged in five minutes and has a lifespan of more than 10 years.
Toshiba hopes the SCiB will be used in battery-powered bicycles, motorcycles, electric forklift trucks and construction machinery, all of which already use rechargeable batteries, Watanabe said.
It also sees potential for their use in petrol-electric hybrid cars, pure electric vehicles and mobile telephones.
zum Artikel...The Hollow Earth Theory
clipped by: travislabordeclippers remarks: the coolest part is that some people believe we are on the "inside" already
The Hollow Earth theory
What is it?
The hollow Earth theory holds that Earth is not a solid sphere but is hollow and has openings at the poles. Furthermore, an advanced civilization, the Agartha, exists within Earth. Their people include advanced spiritual and technological masters who sometimes foray into the atmosphere in their UFOs. Ref
zum Artikel...ICRC report: Dignity Denied in the Palestinian territories
clipped by: Rasmusclippers remarks: Complete ICRC report (PDF)
Occupied
Trapped in the Gaza Strip
Restrictions on life in the West Bank
zum Artikel...Barbara Walters Criticizes White House Biblical Christmas Card
clipped by: wiccantexanBarbara Walters recently criticized a Christmas card she received from the White House this year for featuring a seven-line scripture from the Bible.
?Usually in the past when I have received a Christmas card, its been Happy Holidays and so on,? said Walters.
But the veteran anchor expressed dismay that President Bush and the First Lady would send out a ?religious Christmas card? with a direct Bible verse from the Old Testament printed inside:
After reading the scriptural message of the card, Walters asked in a critical tone, "Does this also go to agnostics, and atheists, and Muslims?"
"Dont you think its a little interesting,? continued Walters in her questioning, ?that the president of all the people is sending out a religious Christmas card?"
The card, which was paid for by the Republican National Committee, closes: ?May the joy of all creation fill your heart this blessed season 2007.?
zum Artikel...In Reversal, Fed Approves Plan to Curb Risky Lending
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zum Artikel...What is Thought? (book review)
clipped by: wildcatclippers remarks: "One thing that most impressed me about the book is the underlying theme that he refers to as his version of Occams razor and summarizes as follows: mind is a complex but still compact program that captures and exploits the underlying compact structure of the world.To understand something about the world is to capture its features in a compact subroutine that allows one to effectively interact with it.
"This book is the deepest, and at the same time the most commonsensical, approach to the problem of mind and thought that I have read. The approach is from the point of view of computer science, yet Baum has no illusions about the progress which has been made within that field. He presents the many technical advances which have been made -- the book will be enormously useful for this aspect alone -- but refuses to play down their glaring inadequacies. He also presents a road map for getting further and makes the case that many of the apparently deep philosophical problems such as free will may simply evaporate when one gets closer to real understanding."
--Philip W. Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1977 Nobel Laureate in Physics
zum Artikel...Teenagers charged in "Mortal Kombat" tragedy
clipped by: TheCatWhispererclippers remarks: Read the rest of the article, the writer makes some very good points.
These kids were old enough to know better, any sane person cant place the blame on video games. the could have gotten the idea form any visual media. Movies, TV, etc.
There was alchahol involved. If thye had have been watching a Van-Damm mvowie before hand the same outcome would ahve likely been reached.
Stupid people make me mad. They just gave the anti-video game camp a hand of ACES in the media...
Heres an idea.. take resposibility for your own fucking actions.. What about the parents here.. obviously these "kids" should not have been left in cahrge of a 7 year old...
Oh dear. When the game haters of the world hear about this one, theres going to be a field day to rival the Romans reveling over bloody crucifixions. Apparently on December 6th, 7 year old Zoe Garcia was being watched by her older sister Heather Trujillo, 16 and her boyfriend Lamar Roberts, 17. After some drinking, the two teens decided to act out the game Mortal Kombat and decided to get Zoe in on the action.
According to Heather, they were hitting and kicking Zoe while acting out the game and even dropped her on her side, breaking her wrist in the process. Roberts, who claimed to be a martial arts expert, says that Zoe asked him to stop hitting her but due to his state of intoxication he did not comply. He performed a back kick on the child, which she did not get up from. The teens tried to revive her several times and did not succeed. The cause of death was later named as "blunt force trauma" to her brain and central nervous system.
zum Artikel...Judge Backs Man Who Posted Dilbert
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zum Artikel...Christmas Consumerism
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zum Artikel...How to Land a Plane
clipped by: swampfoxzclippers remarks: These instructions cover small passenger planes and jets (not commercial airliners).
How to Land a Plane
1. If the plane has only one set of controls, push, pull, carry, or drag the pilot out of the pilot?s seat.
2. Take your place at the controls.
zum Artikel...OCCAMS RAZOR
clipped by: syncopathclippers remarks: as a deeply religious non-believer (in accord with Einsteins saying) i hope that future educated mind free spirit & intelligent tolerance sometimes connote with neo atheism will not end up as a flat line !! .... -))
zum Artikel...10 Weird Psychology Studies
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Now vote for your favourite
zum Artikel...List of unusual deaths
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List of unusual deaths
zum Artikel...Europe: Richest and Poorest - EuroNews
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Luxembourg heads European rich listzum Artikel...HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF
clipped by: swampfoxzclippers remarks: Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF
"DO YOU HEAR THAT?"
"What?"
"Never mind, its gone now."
zum Artikel...Virgin or Slut: Pick One
clipped by: Rasmusclippers remarks:
The message to young men is more subtle. In this fairy tale written, produced and directed by abstinence-only advocates, teenage guys are both potential villains -- the oversexed, hormone-crazed young men who must be refused continuously by good girls -- or potential knights in shining armor -- saving enough money from their summer jobs to buy sparkling rings that will save their sweeties from the hell of slutdom.
In between pornified culture and purity balls, in between the slut and the virgin, the stupid, lascivious dude and the knight in shining armor, in between the messages directed at young women -- your body is your power vs. your body is dangerous -- and young men -- your gaze is your power vs. your gaze is dangerous -- are real young people trying to develop authentic identities and sexual practices. And they are struggling mightily.
(L.c.)
zum Artikel...networking frenzy points to Internets future
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zum Artikel...What is God For?
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I found an anti-war poster on StumbleUpon which inspired me to make this.
Click on it to get a larger version. Print it out and stick it up.
I hope it will help spread the positive views of atheism and inspire people to see how pointless war is.
zum Artikel...Death by chocolate
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IT WAS a sorry end. Cut down in his prime, the cunning thief lay on the slab, his cold body offering pathologist Brett Gartrell no outward sign of how he had met his maker. Once Gartrell had wielded his scalpel, however, the cause became clear: a belly stuffed with sticky brown gunk. Diagnosis? Death by chocolate.
Divine - yes. Delicious - absolutely. But deadly? For some it certainly is. The corpse on Gartrells slab belonged not to a human but to a kea, an endangered New Zealand parrot. Like many animals, keas are acutely sensitive to chemicals in chocolate that are harmless to humans in all but huge doses. Scientists are now studying these chemicals, along with other substances in cocoa, hoping to exploit their toxic effects to control pests or microbes.
zum Artikel...Stop the War on Drugs
clipped by: JohnWatermanclippers remarks: Prohibition has only ever served to increase violent crime.
Education is the only realistic answer.
The war on drugs is as unwinnable as the war on terror. And oh, the expense!
zum Artikel...Gore sues Time for recount
clipped by: n2sooners?Mr. Gore has won an Emmy and an Oscar for his important work, not to mention a Nobel Peace Prize,? said a spokesman for the Vice President. ?They don?t even have an Oscar ceremony in Russia. Who ever sees Russian films anyway??
zum Artikel...Love and Hate relationship
clipped by: rituashraficlippers remarks: "The Cupcake" - One of the biggest loves of my life, and also the biggest enemy of my waistline.
zum Artikel...Fredhead Reasons
clipped by: ColoradoRightclippers remarks: Kill the Terrorists
Close the Borders
Punch the Hippies
You might be a Fredhead if...
...you blame America last.
...you kinda like it when terrorists are made uncomfortable.
...you think a Senate majority leader who constantly tells us how things are doomed while a war is still ongoing needs a good bitch-slapping.
...you think its great if a murderer finds God, but that doesnt mean he should be let out of prison.
...you think Americas sovereignty is kinda important.
...you think anyone who talks about how the rich arent "paying their fair share" is a whiny little Communist.
..."great hair" is low on your list of presidential requirements.
...call you crazy, but youd prefer a presidential candidate who actually shares your conservative views.
...you think its time someone did something about the hippies.
...you think someone didnt draw those border lines on a map just for fun.
...you prefer movies where American troops are the good guys.
...you suspect the Iran might actually be up to something.
zum Artikel...Orgasms for world peace-Friday
clipped by: ljsdesignAny way you scream it, one group hopes youll be having an orgasm in the name of world peace this Friday at 6:08 GMT.
At the exact moment of the winter solstice, the world is urged to get busy at the second annual Global Orgasm for World Peace.
Click here to visit the Web site.
People across the world ? but especially in countries with "weapons of mass destruction and places where violence is used in place of medication" ? are being asked to synchronize their orgasms, according to the groups Web site.
This group session of sexual healing, aka The Big O, is designed to be an "instantaneous surge of human biological, mental and spirtual energy" that organizers hope will reduce levels of violence, hatred and fear around the world during this, the longest night of the year.
Global Orgasm is the brain child of Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell, co-founders of the anti-war organization Baring Witness, a group of activists who strip to make public peace displays with their naked bodies.
zum Artikel...Strange facts about the human body
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zum Artikel...G-man is the french president
clipped by: Glinksterzum Artikel...Why does religion make people do bad things?
clipped by: walski69clippers remarks: RPK does some soul-searching, asking this interesting and important question.
Religion is supposed to be good, not only Islam, but any religion for that matter. And that is what I went through during phase two, discovering religion. But if religion is good, then why are religious people bad? Why is it when I meet unreligious people or atheists, I see good people? And why when I meet orthodox religious people, I see bad people? Yes, that is what has been nagging me in this phase three of my life. If religion is good, then religious people should be good and unreligious people or atheists should be bad. But why is it the other way around? And this does not apply to only Muslims.
zum Artikel...Wireds Top Ten Games Of 2007
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zum Artikel...Duke Nukem Forever is back!
clipped by: Glinksterzum Artikel...The Top 10 Most Controversial Ways to Save the Planet
clipped by: skwirlinator1. Ocean seeding: Causing plankton blooms is all over the news, with two companies, Planktos and Climos, trying to sell carbon credits from dumping iron into the ocean. The idea is simple: plankton eat CO2, iron grows more plankton, therefore, dumping iron means less CO2. But traditional environmentalists are up in arms over the practice, citing unintended consequences.
zum Artikel...Vertical Wind Power Generators
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However, like I said before it is not all negative there are also many advantages. Some of these include that seeing how the rotor blades are vertical, you do not have to have a yaw device so this reduces the need for a bearing and its cost. Vertical wind power generators can be at lower heights which can be useful when having to deal with laws that have certain height restrictions to them. Finally, smaller vertical wind generators are much easier to transport.
zum Artikel...Hot Monkey Sex
clipped by: monstersmomStudy Reveals Why Monkeys Shout During Sex
The researchers found that females yelled during 86 percent of all sexual encounters. When females shouted, males ejaculated 59 percent of the time.
To see if yelling resulted from how vigorous the sex was, the scientists counted the number of pelvic thrusts males gave and timed when they happened.
zum Artikel...Bush destroys Young Mothers Lives
clipped by: righthandRepairing Young Womens Lives
Most Americans have never heard of obstetric fistula. Thats because this painful, humiliating injury was eradicated from our country over a century ago, thanks to medical advancements and proper maternal care
zum Artikel...fantasy
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zum Artikel...32 Places With Funny Names
clipped by: NewfmanArsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman?s Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley?s Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)
zum Artikel...10 Facts about Dr. Seuss
clipped by: BobbyRutanclippers remarks: 7. What impact did they have on childrens books?
A revolutionary one. He has been credited with killing off "Dick and Jane", the sterile heroes of older childrens books, replacing them with clever rhymes, plot twists and rebellious heroes who do the unexpected. The Cat in the Hat was commissioned following publication in 1955 of an influential book, Why Johnny Cant Read, which said children were being held back by boring books. An article under the same name in Life magazine called for more imaginative illustration, and named Dr Seuss as a good example of what could be done. Now one in four American children receive Dr Seuss as their first book.
9. What did he think was his greatest work?
He once said it was not a book or an illustration, but the Lion Wading Pool at Wild Animal Park in San Diego, which he donated in 1973.
10. Which was his most controversial book?
The Butter Battle Book, published in 1984, about the arms race.
zum Artikel...Japan May Soon Develop Nuclear Weapon
clipped by: yojoeclippers remarks: Japan has the technology to develop a nuclear weapon in a very short amount of time.
Professor Gary Sick, of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and analyst of Middle East affairs, has reported about about the nuclear capabilities of the Japanese. According to Professor Sick, Japan is so close to a weapon that they ?could do it, sort of, over a long weekend.?
It appears there may soon be a new member of the nuclear club. The Japanese may be developing a nuclear weapon to prepare for the UFOs, which according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura are ?definitely? real.
zum Artikel...The GOPs KKK Styled Hypocrisy Considered
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zum Artikel...Simple calculator with Firefox
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If you have browser Firefox, you should have and Google search box. You could not only search with this thing, but also make calculations. It also calculates sin, cos, exponentiation, square?
You could use it instead of windows calculator 
zum Artikel...Carbon to replace silicon?
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| This delightful circle was taken at Lamington national park, west of the Gold Coast. These are native Australian mountain parots, the red and blue kind are crimson rosellas and the red and green are King Parots. They are feasting on sunflower seed which I had left for them, but I did not expect them to form such a perfect ring. This guy on the bottom is about to jump into the centre, to the discontent of the other birds. |
zum Artikel...George H.W. Bush will help President Hillary
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ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) ? Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she reaches the White House is dispatch him and his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush, on an around-the-world mission to repair the damage done to Americas reputation by the current president ? Bushs son, George W. Bush.
"Well, the first thing she intends to do, because you can do this without passing a bill, the first thing she intends to do is to send me and former President Bush and a number of other people around the world to tell them that America is open for business and cooperation again," Clinton said in response to a question from a supporter about what his wifes "number one priority" would be as president.
zum Artikel...Incredibly secluded Houses
clipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: As far from the city as you could imagine. And they don t seem like they miss it a bit .
(If they want fresh milk they might need a cow.)
zum Artikel...Anti-Anti-Drugs Ads
clipped by: rwatunyclippers remarks: SSDP has created a series of "Anti-Propaganda" ads. First come the original ad produced by the White House Drug Czar office, followed by their response.
zum Artikel...Texan Republican faces stunning defeat: Democrats riding wave in GOP Gerrymandered State.
clipped by: BobbyRutanclippers remarks: This election is a sign of the future. In less than 2 years, Texas Democrats have picked up 8 state house seats with rumors circulating that another may be on the way. Before the primaries are over, the gains made by the Republicans have been cut in half while we still compete on the same Republican favored, unconstitutional, Tom DeLay sponsored map. We sit on the edge of a Democratic House because we have won special elections, general elections, and the hearts and minds of voters across the state.
Texas Democratic Party Chairman, Boyd Richie stated simply:
Dan Barrett won in a district drawn by Republicans to elect a Republican, and his victory is a slap in the face to Speaker Tom Craddick and the failed Republican leadership in this state. Voters have sent a message that they are tired of "business as usual" in Austin and want leaders who will replace the pay-to-play politics of the Republican Party with a state government that works for all Texans."
zum Artikel...Cool Stuff...some functional, some funny
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zum Artikel...So Sad
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zum Artikel...Beautiful Patterns in Nature: Shells
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zum Artikel...WHO IS WATCHING
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our showcase.
Election with candidates.amung.us!
zum Artikel...Bono Hits the Spot. Again.
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Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous.
At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, he asked the audience for total quiet.
Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.
From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet ...
Well, f -- ckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!
zum Artikel...Home Alone for The Holidays
clipped by: Hawkeye_84Whether youre single or divorced, your spouse is away on business or there has been a death in the family, Christmas can be a heartbreaker.
zum Artikel...UNICEF photo of the year
clipped by: MohirUNICEF photo of the year
He?s forty, she?s eleven. And they are a couple ? the Afghan man Mohammed F.* and the child Ghulam H.*. ?We needed the money?, Ghulam?s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan?s Ghor province know better: ?Our men don?t want educated women.? They predict that Ghulam will be married within a few weeks after her engagement in 2006, so as to bear children for Faiz.
During her stay in Afghanistan, it consistently struck American photographer Stephanie Sinclair how many young girls are married to much older men. She decided to raise awareness about this topic with her pictures. Particularly as the official minimum age for brides in Afghanistan is sixteen and it is therefore illegal to marry children.
zum Artikel...The Golden Compass
clipped by: muhusclippers remarks: Pullman is the author of the books on which the movie is based.
When pressed, Pullman grants that he?s not really trying to kill God, but rather the outdated idea of God as an old guy with a beard in the sky. In his novels, he replaces the idea of God with ?Dust,? made up of invisible particles that begin to cluster around people when they hit puberty. The Church believes Dust to be the physical evidence of original sin and hopes to eradicate it. But over the course of the series, Pullman reveals it to be the opposite: evidence of human consciousness, a kind of godlike energy that surrounds everyone. People accumulate Dust by ?thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on.? It starts to build up around puberty because, for Pullman, sexual awakening triggers the beginning of self-knowledge and intellectual curiosity. To him, the loss of sexual innocence is not a tragedy; it?s the springboard to a productive and virtuous adulthood.
zum Artikel...Cakes and Ale
clipped by: EsaemonProctor: I beg your pardon?
Student: Sir, I request that you bring me Cakes and Ale.
Proctor: Sorry, no.
Student: Sir, I really must insist. I request and require that you bring me Cakes and Ale.
At this point, the student produced a copy of the four hundred year old Laws of Cambridge, written in Latin and still nominally in effect, and pointed to the section which read (rough translation from the Latin):
"Gentlemen sitting examinations may request and require Cakes and Ale".Pepsi and hamburgers were judged the modern equivalent, and the student sat there, writing his examination and happily slurping away.
Three weeks later the student was fined five pounds for not wearing a sword to the examination.
zum Artikel...Rape Victim Testifies About Halliburton/KBR
clipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: Women, who are raped or sexually assaulted are virtually left with nowhere to turn. Had it been a man who was raped, would he have been treated the same way?
Rape Victim Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee About Halliburton/KBR [VIDEO]
zum Artikel...Lakota Tribes Withdraw From US Treaties
clipped by: BartendingBearclippers remarks: The birth a new Lakota nation is their stated intent. This could get very sticky.
zum Artikel...Celebrating Christmas Alone
clipped by: Hawkeye_84zum Artikel...Hubble: The most amazing space photographs in the universe
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zum Artikel...Image of the year 07 - nature
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Back of Iapetus
Inside the egg
Splashdown
Dazzling Droplet
zum Artikel...CIA to Hand Over Videotape Docs After Congress Threatens Subpoenas
clipped by: raven714clippers remarks: Congress will cave in like always.
The CIA has announced it will begin handing over documents to Congress about the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of two prisoners held in secret jails. The announcement came after the House Intelligence Committee threatened to subpoena agency officials if they wouldn?t appear before the committee voluntarily. We speak with House Judiciary Chair John Conyers and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. [includes rush transcript]
zum Artikel...Study Reveals Why Monkeys Shout During Sex
clipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: I think this applies to many humans as well.
Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.
Without these yells, male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) almost never ejaculated, scientists found.
Female monkeys often utter loud, distinctive calls before, during or after sex. Their exact function, if any, has remained heavily debated.
To investigate the purpose behind these calls, scientists at the German Primate Center in Göttingen focused on Barbary macaques for two years in a nature reserve in Gibraltar.
The researchers found that females yelled during 86 percent of all sexual encounters. When females shouted, males ejaculated 59 percent of the time. However, when females did not holler, males ejaculated less than 2 percent of the time.
zum Artikel...Man reunites with birth mother at work
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Man reunites with birth mother at work
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Steve Flaig wasnt sure how to approach his co-worker with his big news. It would seem brash to walk up and say, "Hi, Im Steve, your son." How would she react to that, he wondered.
Flaigs long search for his birth mother ended in early October when he learned that she was the woman he previously knew only as Chris, the head cashier at a Lowes home-improvement store just outside Grand Rapids, in Kent Countys Plainfield Township.
"I would walk by her, look at her from a distance, not knowing how to approach her," Flaig, 22, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Wednesday. "You dont come stocked with information on how to deal with this."
When Lowes Cos. hired Christine Tallady to work at the store last April, she had no idea that the young delivery driver to whom she was introduced was her son.
zum Artikel...IC443 The Jellyfish Nebula --Photo
clipped by: dorineclippers remarks: check out the photographers site.
IC443 is a beautiful supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, produced by a supernova explosion thought to have occurred about 30,000 years ago. X-ray emissions are produced by a neutron star hidden deep within the nebula, which is all that remains of the original star. The neutron star is highly dense and rapidly rotating, representing the end stage of a star with between 1.4 and 3 solar masses. In addition to hydrogen, the nebula is comprised of other more complex elements such as oxygen, silicon, carbon, and iron, which were created during the stars lifetime through nuclear fusion . These elements may someday become part of a solar system that could support life.
zum Artikel...Good News! All Iraqi Groups Blame the U.S. Invasion for the Civil War in Iraq
clipped by: BobbyRutanclippers remarks: More: Dated December 2007, the report notes "the Iraqi government has still made no significant progress toward its fundamental goal of national reconciliation." Asked to describe "the current situation in Iraq to a foreign visitor," some groups focused on positive aspects of the recent security improvements. But "most would describe the negative elements of life in Iraq beginning with the U.S. occupation in March 2003," the report says.
Few mentioned Saddam Hussein as a cause of their problems, which the report described as an important finding implying that "the current strife in Iraq seems to have totally eclipsed any agonies or grievances many Iraqis would have incurred from the past regime, lasting nearly four decades -- as opposed to the current conflict, lasting five years."
Overall, "these findings may be expected to conclude that national reconciliation is neither anticipated nor possible. In reality, this survey provides very strong evidence that the opposite is tru
zum Artikel...Papa Smurf!!!
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An American mans attempts to cure an irritating skin condition backfired when his face turned blue.
Fair-skinned Paul Karason developed dermatitis as a result of stress 14 years ago and decided to treat it using silver extract.
The substance is usually consumed orally but Mr Karason also decided to rub it into his peeling skin to accelerate the effects.
According to the 57-year-old, the effect began so gradually that neither he nor he friends noticed the change at first.
He told US television that he is now so embarrassed about his condition that he has moved states and seeks to avoid public places.
Proponents say that colloidal silver, the substance Mr Karason says is responsible for his changing hue, can help boost the immune system and help prevent diseases. It has even been touted as a treatment for AIDS and cancer.
However, the US Food and Drug Administration has rejected most of these claims.
zum Artikel...Oldest human being dies at 116
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 |  Hryhoriy put his long life down to the fact he never married  |
Hryhoriy at home Mr Nestor died in his sleep on Friday night in the village of Stary Yarychev, in the western region of Lviv, the Kiev newspaper Segodnya reports.
He died before proof of his age was submitted to Guinness World Records.
zum Artikel...Amazing winter photos
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zum Artikel...Tiny Menu for Firefox
clipped by: swarapamulangTiny Menu for Firefox
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Tiny Menu for Firefox enables you to reduce the size of the menu bar by collapsing all menu item into a single button, using a drop down to access to all the menu item. You can also choose to keep selected menu items directly on the toolbar and only collapse the items you want out of the way.
zum Artikel...OpenLearn Clipcast
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Welcome to OpenLearn! This page will help you use the free online learning materials that have been made available by The Open University under a Creative Commons licence.
| Topics |
Using OpenLearn does not mean that you become an Open University student, or that you will have a tutor, sit exams, or gain a degree. It does mean that you have free, no-strings-attached access to high quality online educational material taken from Open University courses.
So, what do you need to do to get at this free university material? Well, the short answer is `absolutely nothing?! It?s all laid out for you in the LearningSpace. To take full advantage of all the features and technologies that we have made available, and to be able to enrol on any or all of our units however, you will need to register.
zum Artikel...Black hole bully blasts galaxy
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| By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News |
A powerful jet of particles from a "supermassive" black hole has been seen blasting a nearby galaxy, according to the US space agency (Nasa). 
Galaxies have been seen colliding before, but this form of galactic violence is rarely witnessed by astronomers.
The jet could have a profound effect on any planets in the jets path and could also trigger a burst of star formation.
zum Artikel...More Bush secret torture memos
clipped by: raven714clippers remarks: The revelations show that the White House ignored critics of its policy and encouraged appointments of cooperative counsels at the Justice Department who could be relied on to stretch the law to give the president authority to ignore the Geneva Conventions ban on torture.
There was opposition from both the State Department and the Justice Department. The State Department lawyer, William Taft IV, expressed alarm at the criminality of the practice of torture and the Bush administrations attempt to justify it.
In a lengthy legal opinion, which he sent to the Justice Department on January 11, 2002, and to the White House, he reportedly warned that disregarding the Geneva Conventions was "untenable". He urged them to warn Bush that he would "be seen as a war criminal by the rest of the world".
zum Artikel...Man Yells Heil Hitler, Head-Butts, Kicks American for Speaking English in Germany McDonalds
clipped by: NewfmanBERLIN ? An American was attacked in western Germany by a man who shouted "Heil Hitler," police said Thursday.
The attacker confronted the 54-year-old American for speaking in English with a woman at a McDonalds restaurant in Gelsenkirchen, in the industrial Ruhr region, police said.
The man demanded to know why the two were not speaking German. The woman said her friend did not speak German well, and the American asked, "Whats your problem?"
Police said the assailant then said: "We are in Germany. German is spoken here," before shouting "Heil Hitler" and raising his right arm. The Hitler salute is illegal in Germany.
The American, who was not identified, threatened to call police. As he reached for his cell phone, police said, the stranger head-butted him, and he fell to the floor. The assailant then repeatedly kicked his left ankle.
The attacker fled and the American was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.
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clipped by: rfnajeraAl Qaeda Seeks Journalists Questions for Al-Zawahiri
The invitation is a new twist in Al Qaedas campaign to reach a broader audience, and represents an attempt by al-Zawahiri to present himself as a sophisticated leader rather than a mass murderer.
Al-Sahab asked the forums to send it the questions "with no changes or substitutions, no matter whether they agree or disagree (with the question)."
It said it would take questions until Jan. 16, after which al-Zawahiri would answer them "as much as he is able and at the soonest possible occasion." It did not say whether his answers would come in writing, video or audiotape.
zum Artikel...U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
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Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
zum Artikel...At 71, physics professor is a Web star
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Professor Lewins videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have won him devotees across the country and beyond who stuff his e-mail in-box with praise.
"Through your inspiring video lectures i have managed to see just how BEAUTIFUL Physics is, both astounding and simple," a 17-year-old from India e-mailed recently.
Steve Boigon, 62, a florist from San Diego, wrote, "I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes."
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Uses & Tips*
*The uses and tips described on this Web site were drawn from a variety of sources, including consumer suggestions, articles and other published sources. These uses and tips have not been tested or documented by, and are not endorsed by, the Institute or its members.
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