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Turn Google into Napster

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:45:58 GMT

clipped by: alongcool
clipper's remarks: awesome!

Okay peeps, I’m sure most of you know how to use Limewire and Bittorrent these days. But, I’ll bet you haven’t used Google to perform a quick Mp3 search for the nagging song that’s been stuck in your head all day. The truth is that Google can be used to conduct a search for almost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. This functionality has been available for a long time, but most users haven’t caught on to it. So here’s a quick example of how to use Google to search for Mp3s. It’s like turning Google into the Napster of 2000.

The following is a Google search string for searching open web directories containing downloadable Nirvana music files. Substitute the term Nirvana in the search string for any other band of your liking. You can always bookmark the search result for future use.

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana”

With some very slight modifications the same search string can easily be used to search for ebooks in DOC and PDF format:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″

Or perhaps your looking for some specific video file:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “towelie”

You can check the official Google Advanced Search Operators page for further details on editing this search string to meet your specific needs. Enjoy yourselves!

Now thry this http://www.briefli.com/ link it does exactly what we tought of doing above.

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5 Tips to Increase Your Likeability

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:17:48 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Descriptions for each at the source.

via www.fark.com

Clip Source: prometheusinstitute.net

1. Be positive.

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." - John Keats

2. Control your insecurities.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt

3. Provide value.

"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." - Wilfred Peterson

4. Eliminate all judgments.

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

5. Become a person of conviction.

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: likeability, tips

70 Ways to Better Brain Power

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:27 GMT

clipped by: nhorn

Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

1. Breath deep. More air in means more oxygen in the blood and therefore in the brain. Breath through your nose and you'll notice that you use your diaphragm more, drawing air deeper into your lungs. Several deep breaths can also help to relax you, which is conducive to clearer thinking.

2. Meditate. A simple meditation you can do right now is just closing your eyes and paying attention to your breath. Tensing up your muscles and then relaxing them to start may help. When your mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breath. Five or ten minutes of this will usually relax you, clear your mind, and leave you more ready for any mental task. For more on meditation, you can visit http://www.TheMeditationSite.com.

3. Sit up straight. Posture affects your thinking process. Prove it to yourself by doing math in your head while slouching, looking at the floor and letting your mouth hang open. Then do the mental math while sitting up straight, keeping your mouth closed and looking forward or slightly upwards. You'll notice that it's easier to think with the latter posture.

4. Phosphotidyl Serine (PS). This supplement has been shown in clinical studies to increase lucidity and rate of learning. It activates cell-to-cell communication, helps regulate cell growth, improves the functioning of the special receptors found on cells, and prepares cells for activity. In other words, it can help your brain power. It's also thought to reverse memory decline. Phosphatidylserine has no known adverse side effects.

5.Vinpocetine. This extract, derived from an alkaloid found in the Periwinkle plant, is used as a cerebral vasodilator. It increases blood flow to the brain, which improves its oxygenation and thereby increases mental alertness and acuity. Research suggests it may also be the most powerful memory enhancer available to date.

Tags: brain

Did we cure cancer, but no one cares?

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:38:12 GMT

clipped by: B Rosen
clipper's remarks: While this may not be the miracle drug this article seems to make it out to be, it seems the this is something that deserves a lot more research.

Clip Source: media.www.studentprintz.com

Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

Scientists cured cancer last week.

Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.

Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

Here's the big catch. Pharmaceutical companies probably won't invest in research into DCA because they won't profit from it. It's easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.

Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.

Tags: cancer cure, cancer, science, drug

Clipmarks Rollcall

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:50:40 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: After skwirl and mousie have argued that we need a Roll Call. I thought I'd make one. But given I'm too lazy, I've left it upon the community to build one. Every REAL Clipper POP this so that we know you exist (Yes Mr. Daniel you must POP this too).

So POP away.

Clip Source: www.clipmarks.com

Interesting things
found on the web

Tags: clipmarks, ideas for clipmarks

Clipmarks included in PC Mag's Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:17:18 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Clipmarks makes the list of PC Magazine's Top 10 Future Classic Web sites!

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites		Start Slide Show
Clipmarks	Computer History Museum	del.icio.us	digg
Facebook	The Huffington Post	LiveJournal	MySpace
Pandora Internet Radio	YouTube

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Clipmarks combines elements of del.icio.us and digg, letting users clip their favorite portions of Web pages, share them with the community, and vote on the best. Even if you’re not submitting, though, browsing through the most popular clips is a good way to stay informed about the most recent happenings on the Internet.

Tags: pcmag, clipmarks, web, web2.0, top 10, web site, internet, technology

Speed of light broken!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:15:30 GMT

clipped by: BitDrifter
clipper's remarks: According to a couple German physicists.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

Tags: speed of light, speed, light, physics, german, science, universe, einstein, relativity

Mathematical proof that girls are evil

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:09:22 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I knew it! I knew it!

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Girls require time and money:

"Time is money":

So girls are money squared:

"Money is the root of all evil":

So girls are evil:

Tags: girls, evil, proof, math, mathematics, funny

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

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

Flaming kamikaze squirrel torches car

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:18:43 GMT

clipped by: rwatuny
clipper's remarks: Weird, funny and sad at the same time.

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

A New Jersey woman's Toyota Camry last week suffered a sciurine kamikaze attack during which a flaming squirrel fell onto the vehicle, slid into the engine compartment and provoked an explosion which destroyed the parked vehicle, the Jersey Journal reports.

Lindsey Millar, 23, and bruv Tony, 22, were at home in Bayonne last Wednesday lunchtime when the incident occurred. The animal had apparently decided it was a really good move to chew through overhead powerlines directly above the motor, and was duly fried for its trouble.

Tony Millar explained: "The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was. The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car."

Tags: weird, squirrel, kamikaze, sad, funny

Google vs. God

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:03:22 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I search therefore I am.

Clip Source: static.blogo.it

Tags: google, god, religion, funny, search

Things that are difficult to say when you're drunk

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:09:36 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I find it hard to say "specificity" when I'm sober.

Clip Source: humor.beecy.net

Things that are difficult to say when you're drunk...

Innovative
Preliminary
Proliferation
Cinnamon

Things that are VERY difficult to say when you're drunk...

Specificity
British Constitution
Passive-aggressive disorder
Transubstantiate

Things that are IMPOSSIBLE to say when you're drunk...

Thanks, but I don't want to sleep with you.
Nope, no more booze for me.
Sorry, but you're not really my type.
Good evening officer, isn't it lovely out tonight?
Oh, I just couldn't - no one wants to hear me sing.
I must be going home now as I have work in the morning.

Tags: funny, drunk, alcohol, drinking, speech

The Mathematical Lives of Plants

Mon, 07 May 2007 00:43:06 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

The seeds of a sunflower, the spines of a cactus, and the bracts of a pine cone all grow in whirling spiral patterns. Remarkable for their complexity and beauty, they also show consistent mathematical patterns that scientists have been striving to understand.
...
Scientists have puzzled over this pattern of plant growth for hundreds of years. Why would plants prefer the golden angle to any other? And how can plants possibly "know" anything about Fibonacci numbers?

For the first time, scientists have found convincing biochemical mechanisms responsible for the interlocking spiral growth patterns seen in many plants. (The Romanesco broccoli plant is a striking example.) The video of the experiment with magnetized liquid iron droplets demonstrates how the geometry of such growth could occur in nature.

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Each yellow nub in the center of this daisy is actually its own miniature flower, complete with a full set of reproductive organs. The buds form interlocking clockwise and counterclockwise spirals.
Scott Hotton

The golden angle is the angle subtended by the smaller (red) arc when two arcs that make up a circle are in the golden ratio.
Wikipedia

This sunflower has 21 clockwise and 34 counterclockwise spirals.
Scott Hotton

Plants form new seeds or buds from the center. In this picture, the circle labeled 1 would be the most recent bud. The circle labeled 2 would have been formed just previously, and it forms the golden angle with bud 1

An image of the tip of a Norway spruce branch, viewed through an electron microscope, shows small buds that are primordial. In this case, they will eventually turn into needles. The primordia form at the tip and then move outward and downward.
R. Rutishauser

This cactus, a Mammilaria moellerana, has golden-angle spirals.
Eleanor Farrington

Tags: math, plants, biology, symmetry, sprial, science, nature, geometry, fibonacci, patterns

Internet in 1993

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:29:33 GMT

clipped by: dsegonds

Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

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Tags: news silly