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Print What You Like - a cool tool

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:18:21 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: This can be a real help to those of us who print a lot from the web.

Ever print a webpage only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free webpage editor that gives you control of how webpages look when printed.

Format any webpage for printing in seconds - no more pasting into Word

Save money and the environment by reducing your paper and ink usage

Make printed web pages more readable by removing ads, widgets and other distractions

Fix broken pages that don't print correctly

Tags: web, internet, internet tools, utilities

THE 6 CUTEST ANIMALS THAT CAN STILL DESTROY YOU

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:06:21 GMT

clipped by: tanyamm
clipper's remarks: They seem so sweet, some are cuddly some are big but sooo.. adorable. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Go to the sight to find out why.

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You

If animals could talk, they would spend most of their time calling us dicks and telling us to get off their land. The traits we think of as "cute" are often simply tricks animals have developed to get tourists to throw them food.

Here are six animals that you'll probably want to steer clear of, no matter how adorable they look on that wall calendars.

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)

Duck-Billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Swan (Anatidae Cygnus, dozens of subspecies)

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

The Euphemism Generator

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:32:16 GMT

clipped by: Brimstone
clipper's remarks: In third year linguistics I wrote a report on swearing and euphemisms. I got a B+ for my efforts. It was really a fun paper to write I even used George Carlen as a source.
It’s no everyday you see Carlen and Freud cited in the same report.

What I found interesting was how words that are euphemisms become vulgar and then we need need euphemisms.
Take the word ‘Arse’ for an example, this was considered to be vulgar and the euphemism ‘Ass’ was used instead. Today the roles have reversed, ‘Ass’ is seen as the vulgar and many people will use ‘Arse’ as a euphemism.

Clip Source: www.walkingdead.net

The Euphemism Generator

Hit "Reload" for ENDLESS FUN.

The film shocked audiences nationwide with its frank depiction of two men

igniting the ham watermelon.

The Euphemism Generator can create up to 276,705,660 unique phrases!

Tags: linguistics

Read this clip and try not to say WTF!!

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:49:04 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I mean, are you kidding me!? Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts were offering "symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism" because she was wearing a black and white scarf. After this one, it's going to take a whole to shock me

Honestly, i just tagged this clip dunkin donuts, rachel ray and terrorism - WTF indeed!!

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Tags: dunkin donuts, rachel ray, terrorism, wtf

7 unconventional and creative ways to recycle

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:04:50 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

here are seven ways to make recycling a visible impact

7. The Walking Bike

This invention from Max Knight is a creative way to use old shoes.

Of course, you have to be willing to give up your hand brakes, but it’s a small price to pay to ride in such amazing style. The bike even has socks!

6. Pop Art Duck

5. The Washing Machine Spaceship

This alien-looking craft is, believe it or not, made entirely out of refrigerators and washing machines, dishwashers and garbage compactors.

4. A 2-liter Paradise: Build Your Own Island

looks like a fairly normal island, doesn’t it?

Why, you’d never suspect that it’s covering a floating heap of trash, thousands of plastic bottles in bags, held together with a bamboo frame, the island is 66 by 54 feet and can support a two-story house!

3. The Beer Bottle Buildings

a way to create odd works of pop art while building a brutally tough structure

2. Garbage Architecture

1. The Trashosaurus

this is a dinosaur made entirely out of garbage

weighs one ton

Tags: environment, green, design, cool

Tricking The Tongue

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:19:27 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”

Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”

They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party in Long Island City, Queens, last Friday night. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa and has been known to Westerners since the 18th century

The cause of the reaction is a protein called miraculin, which binds with the taste buds and acts as a sweetness inducer when it comes in contact with acids

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:43:54 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: "It’s kind of nice to think your kitty has gone to the effort to learn a second language to communicate with you. Sure, she did it mostly out of necessity, but also out of affection. She wouldn’t meow just for your attention if she didn’t enjoy a relationship with you."

Clip Source: www.petcentric.com

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

Adult cats, living apart from humans, have very clear communication with one another. It is spoken mostly through scent, then through facial expression, complex body language, and touch.

Meowing is not part of this language. Meow-ese, it would seem, is a language developed exclusively for humans.

The only meowing in the cat world is done between mom cat and her young kittens.

So why do cats have two “languages?” Because meowing is unnecessary in a cat’s world. But in your world, your pet cat is dependent on you, and quickly learns that you are clearly not picking up the scent messages she leaves on your things, and you are not completely fluent in cat body language.

“meow” however gets you to do what she wants

cats have refined their meows specifically to manipulate people.

You may find that the meows that tug at your heartstrings the most are the ones your cat is using

Meow-ese seems to be generally understood by “cat people.”

We have to admit it works.

Tags: language, meow-ese, cats, communication

27 Aquatic lifeforms you never caught while fishing

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:14:21 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Fascinating.

Clip Source: sasthamcotta.wordpress.com

Robot Fish

Deep-sea glass squid

Snaggletooth

Axolotl

Mudskipper

Slander Lanternfish

Deep-sea stargazer

Giant Hatchetfish

Dumbo Octopus

Eelpout

Black-lip Rattail

Humpback Anglerfish

Coelacanth

Northern Seahorse

Longhorn Cowfish

Leafy Sea Dragon

Lumpfish

Atlantic Wolffish

Lionfish

Deep-Sea Lizardfish

Fangtooth Fish

Black Chimaera

Clown Triggerfish

Longlure Frogfish

Prehistoric Frilled Shark

Black Swallowe

Mantis Shrimp

Tags: marine life

Brown Tape Art

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:22:55 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.designverb.com

Who says ya can’t make something cool with translucent brown tape. Mixed media artist Mark Khaisman layers several pieces of tape on Plexiglas panels to create these mesmerizing rustic illuminations with textures much like a knife painting with broad wide strokes. Very cool, time lapse like retro, and mysterious… I’ll have to make some myself. (I love tape).

Why Too Much Praying Is A Bad idea

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:25:29 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: It seems to me that a lot of praying, instead of achieving its intended purpose of praise and glorification instead reduces a deity to a petty servant.

Internet evangelist Stuart Shepard issued a call to pray that Barack Obama's planned speech in a stadium in Denver gets rained out. That goes beyond petty into the realm of the ridiculous and juvenile.

Clip Source: members.comics.com

Tags: religion, humor

Viruses can catch colds, says study that redefines life itself

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:06:46 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Prof La Scola and his colleagues were surprised to spot a smaller type of virus attached to the virus-making factory inside infected cells. The new virus - Sputnik - was unable to infect cells by itself but seemed to hijack the larger to achieve its infectious aims.

By regulating the growth and death of plankton, giant viruses - and satellite viruses such as Sputnik - could be a major influence on ocean nutrient cycles and climate.

"These viruses could be major players in global systems," Nature is told by Prof Curtis Suttle, an expert in marine viruses at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

viruses can apparently get sick.

Even better, they're made sick by another virus.

Viruses are the ultimate example of KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Nothing but a core of genetic material in a protein shell, they may not be able to do anything but replicate (and even then only with a host cell), but they also outnumber us umpty-billion to one.

Their simplicity also makes them hard to kill

Researchers at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have now discovered a virus, named "Sputnik" for its extreme simplicity, which can hijack the viral factory of another pathogen and insert its own code into the program.

The double-victimised cell now manufactures Sputniks, and copies of the original virus which do manage to be made suffer from damage and imperfections because of this second-super-sub-cellular-sabotage.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest they too are alive

Tags: virology, biology, molecular biology

Invisibility is near.

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:58:05 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: A marvelous example of how that which seemed to be a Sci-Fi / Fantasy fiction; becomes real now.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

University of California scientists bend light to create the invisible

The art of invisibility, which enabled Harry Potter to wander unseen around Hogwarts, may be just around the corner, scientists believe.

Researchers funded by the Pentagon have managed to make material that has the potential to bend light around objects to make them invisible.

By diverting light around an object scientists expect to be able to make tanks, buildings and even individual infantrymen disappear from view.

In tests carried out in the United States, researchers were able to construct a prism that bent light “the wrong way” and so would make an object appear to vanish.

will be published this week in the journals Nature and Science, but the full papers were released early online last night.

Similar techniques using microwaves, which are much easier to control, were demonstrated two years ago, but this is the first time that they have been successfully carried out in three dimensions with visible light.

Tags: science, light, invisibility

Born 1920-1979? Congratulations...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:20:44 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes
clipper's remarks: No one was able to reach us all day.And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just wal

Clip Source: sandiego.craigslist.org

Born 1920-1979? Congrats...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we we re back when the streetlights came on.

Ideas for Clipmarks?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:27:44 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: I think it's been a while since anyone has done it, so let me see if I can start something up. Others can follow.

I would like to see on Clipmarks....

A list of 'Most active Clippers'
A list of Clippers with most followers
Simple interface with less drop down lists
A list of Clippers currently browsing Clipmarks
Ways to further decrease time it takes to clip, i.e, reduce clicks anywhere possible.
More RSS integration, i.e., see if Clipmarks can auto-clip latest interesting news/feeds.

More later.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

What are you reading right now?

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:04:37 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Clippers, what books are you reading right now? What was the last book you read?

Clip Source: www.rhettsmith.com

Tags: clipmarks, books