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If you were starting a link farm, what domain would you buy?

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:38 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: That's some bizarre collection of URLs to be ownin!

Clip Source: www.nameadministration.com

(NAmedia) is an online media network that operates thousands of generic domain names

CarRims.com
JingleBells.com
BabyCostumes.com
HerbalMedicine.com
Mapas.com
ReverseMortgages.com
Bebes.com
HotelReview.com
TravelChicago.com
Triathlons.com
SportsWorld.com
TheLord.com
eShopping.com

SpaVacations.com
UsedCarsforSale.com
Mortgages.org
GraniteCountertop.com
KitchenCabinetry.com
Mobile.net
STDs.com
WebHealth.com
LifeInsuranceAgents.com
MotorcycleTrailers.com
MotorcycleTrikes.com
TimesharesForSale.com
CordlessPowertools.com

AntiqueRepair.com
AppleMartini.com
AptitudeTests.com
OvulationCalendar.com
ForeignCurrency.com
OxygenBar.com
OzoneAirPurifiers.com
BoatsforSale.com
DiscountComputers.com
ChocolateCakes.com
ChristmasGiftIdeas.com
Cornrows.com
HamsterCages.com

SumoWrestlers.com
LakeoftheOzarks.com
InfraredCameras.com
AfricanMasks.com
BeverlyHillsCalifornia.com
VideoRecorders.com
IngrownToenails.com
JapaneseTranslation.com
MovieRentals.com
RemoteControlCars.com
FuelTanks.com
Xray.net
Canada.net

Email in Numbers

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:12:05 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Who checks their email 30-40 times per hour???

Clip Source: technology.timesonline.co.uk

170 billion: Number of e-mails sent worldwide each day

2 million: Number of e-mails sent each second

49 minutes: Average time an office works spends each day managing e-mail

34: Percentage of internal company e-mails that office workers say are ‘unnecessary’

30-40: Number of times per hour workers check their e-mail

Tesla: The Lost Wizard Video

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:29:10 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: The man who invented the 21st century will soon get his due. As the web puts this type of information at our fingertips, I have faith that more and more people will be exposed to the brilliance of Tesla.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Super-Green City of the Future?

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:06:59 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Can San Francisco's Treasure Island live up to plans to make it the "Super-Green City of the Future"?
The island is set to become a model for eco-livinga model of urban sustainability, is an entirely man-made 400-acre property in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Originally built in 1939 from sea bottom, quarried rock, and loam, it is currently home to an abandoned naval base and a small number of low- and middle income residents.

Among some of the plans include LEED-certified residential towers to increase urban density, a pedestrian-friendly downtown center, bike lanes, open green space to promote biodiversity, city-sponsored composting/recycling, "living machine" wastewater treatment, an urban farm, and solar/wind/tidal renewable energy generation.

The new Treasure Island proposal is a testament to what our world is capable of when the political will exists to make sustainability a reality.

Tags: green, super city, san fransisco

The Science of Siesta

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:03:51 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: Research Finds That Napping Improves Brain Functioning..

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Let’s hear it for siesta time. What better news than to hear that taking midday naps are good for your grey matter? Companies that want smarter employees should let them take 90 minute midday nap-time. Researchers at the University of Haifa in cooperation with the Sleep Laboratory at the Sheba Medical Center and researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal recently concluded that a daytime nap changes the course of consolidation in the brain in several positive ways. This research mirrors several other recent studies with similar conclusions.

A ninety-minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation

"We still don't know the exact mechanism of the memory process that occurs during sleep, but the results of this research suggest the possibility that it is possible to speed up memory consolidation, and in the future, we may be able to do it artificially,"

What? Artificially? Why do scientist hate REAL sleep so much?

Tags: sleep, napping, health

One billion people to watch TV at same time

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:56:53 GMT

clipped by: Lifes First Beat

Clip Source: www.sportbusiness.com

The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing this year could become the first sporting event to attract a record total live audience of one billion, according to a report by global media communications agency Initiative Sports Futures.

Kevin Alavy, head of analytics at Initiative Sports Futures said, however, that only a handful of elite competitions truly attract global audiences. The final match of one of the biggest international sporting events last year, the Rugby World Cup, for example, drew only 33 million viewers globally, according to Initiative.

Quality of Sleep = Memory storage

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:57:23 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: the Belgian study shows that getting a good night’s sleep the night after learning a new fact has a direct impact on the transfer process between the hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex.

Clip Source: physorg.com

Quality of Sleep Determines Where the Brain Stores Memories

As time passes, our memories are transferred to different parts of the brain in order to ideally store our past experiences. While scientists have known that sleep plays an important role in helping consolidate memories, a new study investigates the role of sleep a step further, and shows how one night of sleep can lead to changes in brain activity six months after an event has occurred.

Their research shows that a good night’s sleep after learning word pairs enhances memory processing in the hippocampus, and also induces information transfer between the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). This transfer serves to consolidate memories, helping new memories become stable and immune to interfering stimuli.

Our work shows how the development of a trace left by new memories depends on sleep

This is the first time we could confirm in humans a number of predictions based on animal research.

Tags: brain, mind, memory, sleep, science, health

The Airships of the Future

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:02:49 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

If you watch just about any SciFi movie or TV series, or read any book where the Nazis won in World War 11 as historical fact, then you will most likely have seen an airship! They seem to be the stuff alternate time lines are made of, with movies like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and books like Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials both preferring airships, zeppelins or dirigible to your good old fashioned airplane.

So in a carbon conscious world where doing something for the environment is critical, it makes sense that airships are once again being talked about.

The two-football-fields-long concept Aeroscraft pictured above is not a Blimp. Think of it as a flying "Queen Mary 2" that will ferry pampered passengers across continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in well-appointed staterooms.

Unlike its dirigible ancestors, the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air

Tags: airships, technology, transportation, carbon conscious, future

John McEnroe beats Mark Philippoussis

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:21:24 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: What a master McEnroe is. Phillippoussis is planning to go back on tour next year, but can't get past the almost 50 year old. Straight sets too.

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A greying McEnroe, 48, had little trouble with the 18 year age difference as he defeated Philippoussis 6-4 6-4 in their play-off for third place in the seniors tournament in Dallas, Texas.

Philippoussis entered the Champions Series (30 and over) event to get matches under his belt as he eyes a return to the ATP Tour after a 10-month injury-enforced absence with hopes of getting an Australian Open wildcard entry.

Cheat on the Need to Sleep

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:10:07 GMT

clipped by: ragendem
clipper's remarks: Daniel Kripke of the University of California, San Diego on the following recommendations for obtaining optimum sleep value:

Clip Source: howto.wired.com

Quality not quantity. No matter how much your mother tells you that you need eight hours of sleep, if you're not tired and you can't truly relax, your sleep time will be worthless.

Do not take sleeping pills. This includes over-the-counter pills and melatonin.

Don't go to bed until you're sleepy. If you have trouble sleeping, try going to bed later or getting up earlier.

Get up at the same time every morning, even after a bad night's sleep. The next night, you'll be sleepy at bedtime.

If you wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep, get out of bed and return only when you are sleepy.

Avoid worrying, watching TV, reading scary books, and doing other things in bed besides sleeping and sex. If you worry, read thrillers or watch TV, do that in a chair that's not in the bedroom.

Do not drink or eat anything caffeinated within six hours of bedtime.

Scientists say that a successful midday nap depends on two things: timing and (no kidding) caffeine consumption.

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Gambling Addict Sues Casino, Loses Again

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:19:19 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I can't see how it's the casino's responsibility to keep addicts out of their establishment.

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A "PROBLEM" gambler who asked to be banned from Sydney's Star City has failed in his bid to recover money he lost when he regularly returned to the casino.

Following losses in May 2004, Mr Foroughi asked to be placed on an "exclusion" list to ban him from the casino.

"Notwithstanding his express undertakings, Mr Foroughi claims to have entered Star City's casino on 65 occasions between June 2004 and January 2006 and to have suffered gambling losses on those occasions amounting to many hundreds of thousands of dollars," the judge said.

Google is Planning a Multi-Terabit Undersea Communication Cable

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:42:32 GMT

clipped by: lilyrose770

Clip Source: blogoscoped.com

Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned.

The Unity cable has been under development for several months, with a group of carriers and Google meeting for high-level talks on the plan in Sydney last week. (...)

Communications Day understands that Unity would see Google join with other carriers to build a new multi-terabit cable. Google would get access to a fibre pair at build cost handing it a tremendous cost advantage over rivals

Tags: google, communication, news, internet

Man Wakes up During His Own Autopsy

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:26:54 GMT

clipped by: behavioristgirl
clipper's remarks: I smell lawsuit!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive

Tags: caracas, autopsy

Australia defeats England in Iraq (Cricket)

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:33:23 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Sports is a wonderful phenomenon. We saw how a soccer victory united Iraqis. It's also a great distraction when needed.

Clip Source: content-aus.cricinfo.com

On Friday, England's cricketers suffered two defeats in a single day at the hands of the Australians. At Cape Town, Paul Collingwood's men were rolled over by eight wickets in the World Twenty20, while in Southern Iraq, the soldiers of the First Mechanised Brigade succumbed by the same margin to their antipodean rivals, Overwatch Battlegroup West, at the US Air Force base in Tallil, near Basra.

Tallil has also become the home to Ashes matches between the English and Australian military contingents working in Iraq. The match is played in aid of charities supporting ex-servicemen and women from the two countries, and also provides a welcome spot of light relief from the challenging and often dangerous work the troops are doing to help the Iraqi Security Forces bring stability and security to the south of the country.

Tags: cricket, iraq, australia, england

Blind Pilot flies from London to Australia

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:44:43 GMT

clipped by: book-mole

Clip Source: maisonbisson.com

I learned of it last night on The CBC’s As It Happens: Miles Hilton-Barber, blind since age 30, has flown from Biggen Hill, south of London, to Gosford, outside Sydney, by ultralight in a journey that took almost two months.

Aviation regulations required he take a sighted co-pilot, but in the As It Happens story he explained how his instruments were geared up to give him audio and voice feedback such that he could do most of it on his own.

Still, one gets the idea that the man wouldn’t let a lack of suitable instruments keep him from making the flight or any other adventure. Speaking with Hilton-Barber before his flight, BBC World Service explained:

55-year old Miles Hilton-Barber has already competed in the gruelling Marathon des Sables, has climbed in the Himalayas, hurtled downhill on a bobsleigh, and holds the lap record for a blind man on the Malaysian Formula 1 motor-racing circuit.

Tags: heroism, flying, blind pilot