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The Ultimate Rejection Letter

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:13:27 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Herbert A. Millington
Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA  34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16.  After careful consideration, I
regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me
an assistant professor position in your department. 

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually
large number of rejection letters.  With such a varied and promising field
of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. 

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in
rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at
this time.  Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor
in your department this August.  I look forward to seeing you then. 

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,
Chris L. Jensen

Tags: rejection, letter, humor, funny, wit, application, jobs, people, joke, entertainment

Interesting Facts

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:26:58 GMT

clipped by: abbysname
clipper's remarks: These are really interesting, and there are a bunch more on the original website.

Clip Source: www.wonderfulinfo.com

Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Tags: facts, true, interesting, information

Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts by OS

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:05:08 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.mouserunner.com

Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

Here is a list of Firefox keyboard and mouse shortcuts for each of the three major operating systems organized by topic.

Tags: firefox, keyboard commands, guide, technology, tech, web, internet, mac, os

Top 10 Most Known Internet Lies Translated

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:15:05 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: seo2.0.onreact.com

Coming Soon: I don’t know when, probably never

Free: Use it it for free now, we make you pay later, once you depend on it

No strings attached: We know you distrust us for a good reason

Interesting photos: Stolen images, I just don’t know anything about them besides that they were popular elsewhere so they must be “interesting”

Make money online: Click our ads, we get commission from these affiliate networks

Privacy: We just use your data for advertising, if the NSA, CIA, FBI, GOP, DIY asks us and once another company buys us we can sell our user database

Click here: We know you are a dummy that does not know how the Internet works

Is now Open Source: We let others do the work for free and then earn big $$$ by reselling it

Social: This will transform your social life into a virtual computer game

Tags: web, websites, technology, tech, lies, internet, top 10, list

How To Get A Stuck Song Out Of Your Head

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:23:56 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.wired.com

1 The pitches in musical scales are likely derived from language. Turns out, aspects of spoken English and Mandarin correlate to the intervals between notes in a chromatic scale (the black and white piano keys in an octave). Is it music we love or the sound of our own voices?

2 When musicians improvise, the lateral prefrontal areas of their brains — responsible for planning and self-censorship — basically turn off. Meanwhile, the medial prefrontal cortex — linked to self-expression and activities like telling a story about yourself — lights up.

3 Getting "Eye of the Tiger" stuck in your head is the result of a glitch in your auditory cortex. This part of your brain processes sounds and stores them for later recall. It powers up and can start crooning uncontrollably after hearing just a few notes of a familiar tune. Want it to stop? Listen to the whole song or do some math.

Tags: howto, how-to, songs, music, entertainment

Very Cool Clock

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:35:21 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion
clipper's remarks: You will have to goto the site to see it.
It wouldn't clip.

Clip Source: www.jessonyip.com

Analogy

Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format. It presents an everyday object with a fresh twist.

Tags: flash, web, technology, tech, clock, time, digital

Cool Camouflage Body Paintings

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:24:38 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: bestpicsaround.com

Tags: cool, photography, photos, body art, art, paint

What $315 Billion Looks Like

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:52:55 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.crunchweb.net

This is the amount of money the US has allocated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be spent by September 30, 2006, the end of the fiscal year. And the Senate is working on a spending bill that will add another $50 billion more in spending for 2007.

This pile is 125 feet wide, 200 feet deep, and 450 feet tall.

Tags: money, photos, economy

A Freaking Hilarious Photo LOL!

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:31:20 GMT

clipped by: orangysb
clipper's remarks: i laughed so bad when i saw this on digg

Clip Source: pics.livejournal.com

Tags: funny, humor, photo

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:54:24 GMT

clipped by: mingkymomo

Clip Source: healthbolt.net

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Tags: coke, drink, sugar, effect, soda, health, caffeine, science, fact, interest, interesting, cocacola, pepsi

Awesome Google Guide! Very Helpful

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:56:38 GMT

clipped by: sphinx000514

Clip Source: filesfly.com

Tags: amazing, cool, internet, links, technology, web

Top 10 Worst Captchas

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:31:24 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.johnmwillis.com

Top 10 Worst Captchas

Don’t you just love Captchas? CAPTCHA is an acronym for ~~“Completely Automated Public Turing Test.”~~ Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” I just call them PITA (pain in the ass). Here are my top 10 worst Captcha’s ever.