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Calamities of Genius

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:57:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler lived in penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.

– The Terrific Register, 1825

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Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was a slave; Boethius died in gaol; Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often distressed for five shillings; Bentivoglio was refused admittance into an hospital he had himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger; Camoens, the celebrated writer of the Lusiad, ended his days in an alms house; and Vaugelas left his body to the surgeons, to pay his debts as far as it would go. In our own country, Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh died on a scaffold. Spencer, the charming Spencer, died forsaken, and in want; and the death of Collins came through neglect, first causing mental derangement. Milton sold his copy-right of Paradise Lost for fifteen pounds, at three payments, and finished his life in obscurity; Dryden lived in poverty and distress; Otway died prematurely, and through hunger; Lee died in the streets;

Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs

Poverty

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:22:15 GMT

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Clip Source: kayenchantey.blogspot.com

The only people I ever heard talk about my Lady Poverty
were rich people, or people who imagined themselves rich.
Saint Francis himself was a rich and spoiled young man.
Being born among the working people
I know that poverty is a hard old hag,
and a monster, when you're pinched for actual necessities.
And whoever says she isn't, is a liar.
I don't want to be poor, it means I am pinched.
But neither do I want to be rich.
When I look at this pine-tree near the sea,
that grows out of rock, and plumes forth, plumes forth,
I see it has natural abundance.
With its roots it has a grand grip on its daily bread,
and its plumes look like green cups held up to the sun and air
and full of wine.
I want to be like that, to have a natural abundance
and plume forth, and be splendid.

Poverty

(D.H. Lawrence)

Time does not bring relief

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:17:50 GMT

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Clip Source: rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com

TIME does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Yahoo outing sites that send spam emails in search results

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:21:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.blogstorm.co.uk

Lee Mccoy has spotted an interesting feature in the Yahoo search results today.

The warnings are powered by McAfee and will probably kill 90% of search traffic to that site. How long before Google does the same?

Funniest Geek Cards & Comics

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:53:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.tinyprints.com

Geek for "I Love You" - (in binary)

Start Over

Get Well

Geek Poetry

Geek Pastries

Love Equations

Geek Pastimes

Geek Romance

Geek Addictions

Geek Fashion

Geek Beliefs

Geek Offspring

Geek Motto

Geek Games

Geek Valentine

Geek Valentine 2

Geek Thesis

Geek Pick Up lines

Expectant Geek

Geek Real Estate

Geek Funeral

Geek Art

Geek Toilet

Geek Translation

Geek Gaming

Geek Loneliness

Formatted print documents online with Issuu

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:50:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.davidkamerer.com

Here's a nice way to give life to formatted print documents online. Upload your PDF file to Issuu, and it becomes part of a social media sharing site with other print-based documents. The Issuu viewer preserves some of the modalities of print while delivering content online. Great for the online portfolio, for showing proofs to clients, for bringing some zazz to lifeless PDFs. And yes, it's free.

Sadly Unrealistic

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:39:21 GMT

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Clip Source: rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com

The search for continuous happiness, for a life wholly without reflection, melancholy, or pain strikes me as unrealistic and, well, sad…Plus, I rather like the longing in my heart for a permanence which is impossible in this life and only possible in the next. I wouldn’t want any pill to blot that yearning out.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:44:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.soothbrush.com

Gluttony

“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” - Peter De Vries

Lust

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.” - Joseph Addison

Wrath

“Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.” - Marie de France

Sloth

“Sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.” - Benjamin Franklin

Pride

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.” - C.S. Lewis

Greed

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Envy

Photo Credits: rosiehardy, aknacer, Half Pinay, lemonade, BB (O.ö), JustinBess

Exploring the Wonderful World of Mantises

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:39:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.soothbrush.com

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Exploring the Wonderful World of Mantises

Mantises, Mantes, Mantids or whatever term you prefer to use for their plural form, are among the most fascinating and at the same time scariest insects in the world.The 2,300 species of praying mantises comprise an order of insects called Mantodea.The word ‘mantis’ is Greek, and means prophet or fortune teller. Praying prophet? Very appropriate. Mantids so often look like they know something we don’t.

Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them

Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. They use their front legs to snare their prey with reflexes so quick that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. Their legs are further equipped with spikes for snaring prey and pinning it in place.

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70 Creative Advertisements

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:36:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hongkiat.com

FedEx Kinkos - Office Products now at fedexkinkos.com

The Naval Museum of Alberta

Australia Post - If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter.

Australia Post - Personalized your post

Porsche

Sharpie permanent markers

Denver Water - Use only what you need.

Bergmann funeral service - Come a litle closer.

Duracell - Last longer, much longer

WWF - save the world with a few coins

WWF - Don’t cut the rain forest.

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Guiness - Road signs. The more you drink, the slow you react.

Heineken DraughtKeg - Made to entertain.

Heineken Jammin Festival, Venice.

Land Rover UK - More pull

McDonald’s bus stop

Part of the campaign to announce that they are now opening at night.

WMF knives - Cutting board

Nivea Beauté - Calcium Power

World No Tobacco Day - Non Smoking Area

Duracell Escalator

Motor Magazine - Speed tracks

TAC - If you drive on drugs, you’re out of your mind.

Rubik’s Cube - 25th Aniversary

UNICEF Mickey - The children can’t die.

UNICEF - Don’t ignore me

MSNBC - A Fuller Spectrum of News

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5 Ways to Surf Like a Moron

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:31:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: haha

Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

So here it is: my 5-point method for turning your computer into a quivering pile of malware-infested, hacker-friendly trash.

1. Don't bother updating your software.

2. Believe everything you see. If a pop up window tells you that Windows has found spyware on your computer or that you have 324 errors in your registry, you'd better click on it.

3. You need more free smilies and screensavers.

Everyone loves smilies, especially the friends that "msg u bak n 4th @ myspace". And screensavers? Shut up. I love having fancy animated crap displayed on my monitor when I'm nowhere near it - that's how everyone walking past knows what a cool guy I am. None of the websites giving this stuff away want to piggyback any nasty BHOs or other malware anyways.

4. Use your main email address and the same password everywhere you register for an account.

5. Everything on Limewire is a real video or song. Dude, it's totally possible to cram Iron Man into a 72mb download, or squeeze Free Bird into a 540kb mp3

I asked for very little from life

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:58:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alionline.net

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we are mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

--Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

Sarah Mensinga's Drawings

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:51:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.drawergeeks.com

Universal\'s Monsters

Google hoaxes

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:12:32 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Google has a tradition of perpetrating April Fools' Day hoaxes.

2000

Google announced a new "MentalPlex" search technology that supposedly read the user's mind to determine what the user wanted to search for,

Google MentalPlex

2002

PigeonRank. Google touts the benefits of this cost-effective and efficient means of ranking pages and reassures readers that there is no animal cruelty involved in the process

Pigeon Rank

2004

Fictitious job opportunities for a research center on the moon. Luna/X (a pun to Linux as well as a reference to both the Windows XP visual style and Mac OS X) is the name of a new operating system they claimed to have created for working at the research center.

Google Copernicus Center