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Tough Day at the Office

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:08:30 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Is Derek sleeping on the job or coding in his sleep?

Tags: djkraz, derek, sleeping, sleep, photo, clipmarks

Have Sex, Live Longer

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:52:11 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Sequel to the Eat Less, Live Longer article. Now I wish I clipped the Drink Wine, Live Longer clip, hehe.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

According to a spate of news reports on life extension that have spread across the internet like influenza just about everything out there ads a little time to your mortal coil. Wine, calorie reduction diets, low body temperatures have all made news for their ability to give you a few more good years on earth, and now, so too does sex. According to a 1997 study in the British Medical Journal men who have regular orgasms live longer. The also have a better sense of smell, reduced depression and improved heart function.

This article in Forbes list a few good reasons to keep knocking boots until your boots can knock no more.

So with pot helping Alzheimer's, red wine helping you age gracefully, and sex improving just about everything else, you have to like the direction modern medicine is going.

Tags: health, science, medicine, body, biology, sex, life

Nikola Tesla Built an Electric Car in 1931

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:59:21 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Tesla is one of my biggest heroes. In 1900 he understood the concepts behind what finally became the "web" and would have built it given the right support. He also had plans to distribute electricity wirelessly around the world for free. I truly believe he would have accomplished that too.

Clip Source: www.keelynet.com

Supported by the Pierce-Arrow Co. and General Electric in 1931, he took the gasoline engine from a new Pierce-Arrow and replaced it with an 80-horsepower alternating-current electric motor with no external power source.

At a local radio shop he bought 12 vacuum tubes, some wires and assorted resistors, and assembled them in a circuit box 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high, with a pair of 3-inch rods sticking out. Getting into the car with the circuit box in the front seat beside him, he pushed the rods in, announced, "We now have power," and proceeded to test drive the car for a week, often at speeds of up to 90 mph.

As it was an alternating-current motor and there were no batteries involved, where did the power come from?

Popular responses included charges of "black magic," and the sensitive genius didn't like the skeptical comments of the press. He removed his mysterious box, returned to his laboratory in New York - and the secret of his power source died with him.

Tags: nikola tesla, electric car, car, automobile, 1931, inventor, invention, science, electricity

Tesla, the Genius Who Lit the World

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:10:46 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Tesla the genius. The inventor of the 20th century. The man who saw the future and made it happen.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: tesla, nikola tesla, science, inventor, genius, history, video

Clipmarks and the Art of Highlighting

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:13:48 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Clipper JICWyllie published this piece in Inside Knowledge magazine. His insight regarding annotation and classification is fascinating. And it's inspiring to read about the potential of Clipmarks as a tool for group intelligence -- World Mind here we come!

Thanks Jan!

Clip Source: www.ikmagazine.com

Sorting the useful information from the rubbish on the internet is an everyday challenge. Can social-networking sites, such as Clipmarks, help?

After looking at Clipmarks for a few minutes, here is part of what I first wrote: “Clipmarks is the first vital step towards the collaborative creation of a new level of meta-knowledge, enabling people to better understand the big picture. The next step is to use multifaceted taxonomies as the intellectual tools for collecting and organising the evidence on which metaknowledge is based.”

All individuals and groups can start contributing their intelligence and interests to the content and organisation of corporate clips collections (or the World Mind), right now, using simple tools and tagging devices like Clipmarks.

Tags: clipmarks, information, inside knowledge

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

1838: The first ever photograph of a person

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:13:40 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: This photo of Daguerre's came a dozen or so years after French inventor Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent photograph. I wonder what ever came of the guy getting his boots polished -- I'm sure he had no idea people would still be talking about him hundred of years later.

Here is the photo much bigger.

Clip Source: query.nytimes.com

"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture.

Tags: photography, photograph, louis daguerre, 1838

Courtney Love to sell Kurt Cobain's belongings

Tue, 01 May 2007 04:53:21 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Thirteen years is probably a long enough time to wear your dead ex-husband's pyjamas to bed.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

No more will she wear his pyjamas to bed, and no more will she cart around Cobain's trademark flannel shirts

Love revealed her decision to sell the items on AOL's music website, Spinner, lamenting that her house was "like a mausoleum"

"My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant hefty bag full of flannel ... shirts," she said. "A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to Teen Spirit - that's what my daughter gets. The rest of it we'll ... sell."

Tags: courtney love, kurt cobain, nirvana

Beer Maker, Scientists to Create Energy

Sat, 05 May 2007 11:59:30 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

CANBERRA, Australia—Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster's are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water—by using sugar-consuming bacteria.

The experimental technology was unveiled Wednesday by scientists at Australia's University of Queensland, which was given a $115,000 state government grant to install a microbial fuel cell at a Foster's Group brewery near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state.

The fuel cell is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol.

The battery produces electricity plus clean water, said Prof. Jurg Keller, the university's wastewater expert.

The complex technology harnesses the chemical energy that the bacteria releases from the organic material, converting it into electrical energy.

The 660-gallon fuel cell will be 250 times bigger than a prototype that has been operating at the university laboratory for three months, Keller said.

Tags: science, technology, beer, energy, bacteria, sugar

It's Official: eBay buys Stumbleupon for $75 million

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:56:15 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: First it was rumored at $40-45 million, then almost inked and now it's official. Will be fascinating to watch how they integrate it -- the Skype-Stumbleupon combo could be a compelling experience.

Clip Source: www.redherring.com

Consumating a long-rumored deal, Internet auctioneer eBay agreed on Wednesday to acquire social bookmarking site StumbleUpon for $75 million.

A bulletproof method for spending hours of time web surfing—5 million recommendations are made daily—StumbleUpon provides users with an easy and community-oriented way of discovering new and unexpected sites.

One blogger argued that StumbleUpon would enable eBay to circumvent search giant Google, by embedding a StumbleUpon search box into its Skype client.

Tags: ebay, stumbleupon, acquisitions, web, internet, social networks

Jimi Hendrix was kidnapped by mobsters

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:22:37 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I'd never heard of this one before. Hard to know if it's true or not, but I can imagine someone in Jeffery's position pulling a stunt like this (maybe I've been watching The Sopranos too much).

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In September, 1969, Hendrix was apparently kidnapped and held for two days in New York City by two men who appeared to be New York mobsters. The standoff ended when associates of manager Michael Jeffery appeared and peacefully regained custody of Hendrix. No police or media reports of the incident exist, but Hendrix himself retold the story often when confiding with friends or associates about his management problems. He believed that Jeffery staged the kidnapping to bolster his role as manager or as a threat of some kind. The incident had occurred at a time when Hendrix was at odds with Jeffery over the direction of his career, and his recollection was influenced by his drug induced paranoia.^[7]

Tags: jimi hendrix, kidnapping, mobsters, music, michael jeffery

Clipmarks helps make Firefox a favorite browser

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:19:40 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: As part of a piece about Apple launching Safari for PCs, the Telegraph's inhouse expert gave ONE example of an extension that makes Firefox the favorite browser for many. Guess which one? Clipmarks! Thanks Rick!

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

As for which browser is best, our inhouse expert, Rick Maybury, says: "There's no such thing as the perfect browser, nor is there ever likely to be. You don't have to use only one. Should you be so inclined, you could install all of them and run them at the same time."

Maybury, like a growing number of users, favours Firefox (getfirefox.com). This free software offers tabbed browsing (where you can open multiple web pages in the same browser window and flick between them), RSS feeds (which stream news and updates from your favourite sites), and a host of extensions that improve surfing, such as Clipmarks, which allows you to bookmark only the most interesting parts of a web page, rather than the whole thing.

Tags: clipmarks, firefox, browser, web, extensions

Science of Search: How to Make Out, or Levitate

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:00:07 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks:

How-to searches also reveal our aspirations. Comprising 12% of the instructional searches were those questions geared towards self improvement: how to "lose weight," "gain weight," "make money," and, for those truly in search of instant gratification, "make money fast." On the darker side, over 9.5% of the searches were for illicit or illegal activities, with marijuana use figuring high on the list ("how to grow marijuana," "grow pot," "grow weed") but also some very concerning questions: "how to commit suicide," "how to make meth," even "how to make a bomb." We apparently feel comfortable enough with our computers and the Internet to query just about anything.

Search continues to grow in importance as we sift through the mountain of information available to us. As the growth of "how to" searches increases, its clear that we are turning to search engines as sources of knowledge and insight into getting things done.

Clip Source: www.time.com

Search engines have gone way beyond a simple tool to find information. We might search for a website that we can't remember, a factoid for a report, or movie times for the local theater. More and more, we are turning to search engines for more involved queries, posing philosophical questions (why?) or at times searching for instruction (How to...?).

For the four weeks ending July 21, 2007, Hitwise amassed a list of over 130,000 unique "how to" queries.

Top 10 "How to" Searches in the U.S (4 weeks ending 7/21/07)
1. How to tie a tie
2. How to have sex
3. How to kiss
4. How to lose weight
5. How to write a resume
6. How to levitate
7. How to draw
8. How to get pregnant
9. How to make out

10. How to make a video

Since the beginning of 2007, our "how to" queries have risen over 17.5%, encompassing an impressive 2.96% of all searches in the U.S. When you look at these terms, one thing that becomes very clear is just how fractionalized our instructional dilemmas are.

Tags: search, list, search engines, survey, society, questions, internet, technology, life, instruction

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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