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10 Most Bizarre Species Names

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:40:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I saw the Harrisonfordi name on some other website, and after a google search to verify it, I came across this page.

My favorite HAS to be the Carmen Electra one...it's brilliant!

Share your favorite in the comments

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

10 Most Bizarre Species Names

Slippery dick

Colon Rectum

Agra vation

Aha ha

GoldenPalace.com Monkey

Calponia Harrisonfordi

Several spiders bear the names of entertainers such as the Calponia harrisonfordi, and the Pachygnatha zappa who clearly have taxonomists as fans. Sting, the musician, has his own tree frog as well: Hyla stingi. America's president, vice president and defence secretary each got a beetle (Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi, A. rumsfeldi) courtesy of two Republican coleopterists. Admittedly, the beetles in question eat slime mould, which caused a few titters among taxonomists of a Democrat persuasion, but it is clearly an act of gross speciesism to criticise the dining habits of other organisms, so the titters were sotto voce.

Carmenelectra shechisme

Pronounced "Carmen Electra She Kiss Me", is actually a name for a fossil mythicmyiid (that's another word for moth) from Dominican amber.

Oedipus complex

Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides

Pieza kake

Tags: bizzare, species, funny

Working From Home Top 10 Distractions

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:28:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I recommend visiting the link for each one's description. Very good advice for those of you who work from your home, like me.

Clip Source: www.powerhomebiz.com

Avoid the Top 10 Distractions When Working From Home

1. Family obligations.

2. Frequent visit to the refrigerator.

3. Too much sleeping

4. Procrastinating.

5. Unnecessary phone calls.

6. Watching too much TV

7. Getting sloppy.

8. Too many unnecessary activities.

9. Drinking alcohol while working

10. Working too much.

Tags: work, home, distractions, boss, entrepreneur, business, guide, tips, advice

Beautiful and immortal advice. A MUST read!

Fri, 25 May 2007 13:43:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Like the guy on the webpage this is linked to, I also found this letter among my dad's printed emails to me while I was away in university in another country. My dad has long departed since then, but every time I read these words Lincoln wrote to his son's teacher, they bring a tear to my eyes. Beautiful and sincere advice for anyone to follow.

Clip Source: vnicholas.wordpress.com

Lincoln’s letter to his son’s teacher

He will have to learn, I know,
that all men are not just,
all men are not true.
But teach him also that
for every scoundrel there is a hero;
that for every selfish Politician,
there is a dedicated leader…
Teach him for every enemy there is a friend,

Teach him, if you can,
the wonder of books…
But also give him quiet time
to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky,
bees in the sun,
and the flowers on a green hillside.

In the school teach him
it is far honourable to fail
than to cheat…
Teach him to have faith
in his own ideas,
even if everyone tells him
they are wrong…
Teach him to be gentle
with gentle people,
and tough with the tough.

Teach him to sell his brawn
and brain to the highest bidders
but never to put a price-tag
on his heart and soul.

Teach him to close his ears
to a howling mob
and to stand and fight
if he thinks he’s right.

This is a big order,
but see what you can do…
He is such a fine little fellow,
my son!

Tags: abraham lincoln, lincoln, wisdom, proverbs, teach, learn, advice, life, father, son

Shipwreck worth $500m found!

Fri, 18 May 2007 20:37:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Follow the link if you want to read the whole story. I love shipwreck type historical discoveries!

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Shipwreck yields historic riches -- $500M worth

TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean.

Estimated value: $500 million.

A jet chartered by Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration landed in the United States recently with hundreds of plastic containers brimming with coins raised from the ocean floor, Odyssey co-chairman Greg Stemm said. The more than 500,000 pieces are expected to fetch an average of $1,000 each from collectors and investors.

Story Highlights

• 17 tons of colonial-era coins worth $500 million, Odyssey Marine Exploration says
• Salvage project "Black Swan" in Atlantic Ocean cloaked in secrecy
• Court records show coins might be from a 400-year-old ship found off England
• "Unprecedented" find from colonial era, rare coin expert says

Tags: shipwreck, discovery, riches, coins, history, historic, archeology, ship

Read books on your mobile. It's fun. Seriously.

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:05:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someone I know downloads and reads books on his mobile, and told me about this today. I checked it out and I this is really cool. You'll find almost any book you can think of, plus other cool reading material like jokes, quotes, etc. Oh, its easy to use, and free. Try it.

Clip Source: www.wattpad.com

Wattpad is all about reading and sharing stories on your mobile phone. The stories on Wattpad are uploaded by community members like you. You can upload whatever you want to share - a story, an essay or a joke, and then read it on your phone or send it to your friends via SMS. If you can't find what you want, you can even request it from the Wattpad community.

The easiest way to get Wattpad Reader is to go to get.wattpad.com on your phone's web browser. You can also download the files to your PC first from here. After you have it to your PC, then you can transfer it to your phone.

Is it uncomfortable to read on a phone?

Chances are you do this if you get SMS and email on your phone. Wattpad Reader makes it easy to read on your phone. You can start and stop any time with auto bookmarking, set the scrolling to match your reading speed and adjust the text size and color to suit your phone's display. You have to try it for yourself, you'll be surprised!

Tags: books, read, mobile, wattpad

Improve your memory with your eyes

Mon, 14 May 2007 13:07:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Even if this is true, I don't see myself ever trying it. Researchers come up with the strangest things sometimes.

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Health

Improve your memory with your eyes

The Manchester Metropolitan University in England has come out with a study that suggests you can improve your memory by moving your eyes horizontally from side to side for 30 seconds:

After hearing a list of words, the study found that those who moved their eyes side-to-side for 30 seconds correctly remembered more than 10 percent more words, and falsely recognized about 15 percent fewer "lure" words, compared to those who moved their eyes up and down or did nothing.

In my opinion, this seems like it would make you a bit queasy; but if it gives you a memory boost I suppose it might be worth it. — Wendy Boswell

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

Pimp up your desktop with this

Sun, 13 May 2007 15:55:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This program is 100% free. It's awesome. Check out some of the custom modules people have made for you to download. Make sure you checkout the Competition Winner module on the main page. Pretty sweet!

Clip Source: www.samurize.com

What is Samurize ?

Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!

Samurize's rich feature set includes:

• an unrivalled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures...)

• ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required

• monitoring your own computer or others over a network

• tiny memory footprint and CPU usage

• the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor

• full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API

• minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary)

• multimonitor support

• many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

Tags: desktop, enhancer, software, freeware, samurize, windows, xp

For those who take life too seriously

Sun, 13 May 2007 08:10:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These are some of my favorites. Visit the webpage for the whole list. You won't be sorry.

Clip Source: www.wordworx.co.nz

FOR THOSE WHO TAKE
LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY

8. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be
misquoted, then used against you.

11. Remember half the people you know are below average.

12. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it
remains?

18. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

22. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

27. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and
going the wrong way.

39. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many
is research.

41. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

45. The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch
up.

47. Change is inevitable except from vending machines.

51. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

54. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.

52. How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...

Tags: funny, quotes, life, philosophy, jokes, one-liners, sayings

The Death of the Cassette Tape

Tue, 08 May 2007 09:33:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: *Sigh* Such good memories. And some frustrating ones. You will be missed. Goodbye my friend. *Salute*

Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The death of the cassette tape

THE eject button has been pressed on the audio cassette for the very last time.

Currys, the UK’s biggest electronics retailer, yesterday announced it is to stop selling the tapes.

Woolworths and HMV have already removed them from their shelves.

Currys also predicts this Christmas will be the last time it sells hi-fi systems with tape decks included.

Compact cassettes could be frustrating at times — hissing, stretching or getting chewed up in tape decks — but while MP3s and downloads are all the rage now, tapes played an important role in musical culture for more than 40 years.

The recordable tape was introduced to Europe in 1963 by Philips.

A massive 83million tapes were sold in the UK in 1989. Yet by last year the figure had fallen to a mere 100,000.

And beware, here are other devices we reckon could be on the way out next:

Answering machines

Fax machines

Portable CD players

Watches

You have been warned

Tags: cassette, vintage, antique, tape, lp, past, history, music

Video Game Controller Family Tree.

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:01:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nostalgia Warning: Will bring back strong emotional memories.

Clip Source: www.axess.com

Controller Family Tree

Tags: video, games, controllers, nostalgia, gaming, fudzzz

Guerrilla Mail

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:15:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An instant temporary email address for all your junkmail needs!

Clip Source: www.guerrillamail.com

Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

There are no e-mails yet. Hit the reload button to check for e-mails.

The e-mail expires in: 13 Min 25 Sec

Post this page to:

Tags: guerrilla, mail, email, address, temporary, junk, cool

Man, I love this illusion!

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:27:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Make sure you concentrate fully on the center for a few seconds.

Clip Source: www.michaelbach.de

What to see

On the right you see a rotating array of blue crosses and 3 yellow dots. Now fixate on the centre (watch the flashing green spot). Note that the yellow spots disappear once in a while: singly, in pairs or all three simultaneously. In reality, the 3 yellow spots are continuously present, honest!

Tags: illusion, visual, phenomena, cool, strange, weird, eyes

Dubai: The World Islands, These Crazy Arabs!

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:09:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Man, these Arabs are crazy. And awesome.

Clip Source: realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com

Dubai: The World Islands

The World Islands, which is sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Palm World or Globe Islands, are a collection of man-made islands shaped into the continents of the world, located off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It will consist of 300 small private artificial islands divided into four categories - private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands.

Tags: dubai, world, islands, arabs, construction, land, tour, holiday, cool, amazing

Links to all your Free Software needs

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:43:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great list of links. Visit the page.

Clip Source: www.smosh.com

All the programs below are 100% free. No trials or any bull shit. They are ALL FREE.

3D Graphics

Anti-spam programs

Anti-Spyware

Anti-Virus

Audio Players

Audio Tools

CD/DVD Burning

Checksum Utilities

Compression / Decompression

Defrag Software

Desktop Enhancements

Download managers

DVD Players

DVD Rippers

Encryption and data security

File Managers

Firewalls:

FTP Clients

FTP Servers

HTML Editors

Image viewers

Instant Messenger

Internet Explorer Front-Ends

IRC Clients

Mail programs

Network Tools

Office Suite

Operating Systems (Linux/Unix)

-CD Bootable OS's-

Partition Managers

PDF Utilities

Photo manipulation and image design

Programming

Pop-up Blockers

RSS Readers

System Information and monitoring

Video codecs

Video players

Video tools

Web browsers - note: some are shareware

Web servers

Webcam Software

Misc. Utilities/Applications

Tags: free, software, freeware, downloads

Freeware Office Suite

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:52:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This looks pretty good. Thoughts?

Clip Source: www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org 2 - Product Description

Compatible with other major office suites, OpenOffice.org is free to download, use, and distribute. Download it now, and get:

	Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book.
	Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics.
	Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations.
	Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.
	Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org
	Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.

Tags: microsoft, office, freeware, software, word, access, excel, fudzzz