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11 must see pictures

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:46:39 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Since all my friends know that I love photography I receive tons of forwarded emails with pictures. I rarely share these since most of them are already wide spread but this collection is different.

Needless to say that I didn’t take any of these pictures and that the copyright remains to their original owners, I am just sharing them here for their exceptional quality. So here we go

First Nuclear Bomb test France 1968

Boat in the clear water of Maldives

This is not a boat it is a fountain

Elephant going out of the water

Lions fight

Some birds

Tags: photographs, photography, art, birds

How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:04:11 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "short sleep is O.K" said co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif.

Clip Source: www.time.com

How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

How much sleep is ideal?

Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hr. or more, or less than 6.5 hr., they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short.

The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hr. Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr..

One of the reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is O.K. We've all been told you ought to sleep 8 hr., but there was never any evidence

A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep 8 or 9 hr.

with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and wake up a lot during the night.

lot of the problem [of insomnia] is lying in bed awake, worrying about it

Put the Pieces Together

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:15:53 GMT

clipped by: shunyax

Clip Source: www.business-und-marketing.de

Clip Source: www.guerrillapromos.com

Ravensburger puzzles, a company with over 120 years of experience in the gaming and entertainment industries, recently conducted a guerrilla marketing campaign on demolition sites in Germany. Ravensburger carefully placed huge replicas of their puzzle boxes with highly recognizable buildings on them next to rubble at several domolition sites as a means to promote putting the pieces together, so-to-speak - a great way to promote their puzzles.

Tags: ads

God’s Final Message?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:54:48 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: asymptotia.com

“According to So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, God’s Final Message To His Creation is written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Preliumtarn, which orbits the star Zarss, which is located in the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine. The long path to the message is lined with souvenir stands at spaced-out intervals.
When Marvin reads the message, it says, “We apologise for the inconvenience.” However, Fenchurch’s reaction suggests that the message she saw was the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (and that presumably, therefore, the Message is personalized to each viewer).”

–Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Or perhaps this* is God’s Final Message:

(Part of the Carina Nebula (not far from the Keyhole Nebula detail). Image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. See GRIN for some more information.)

Clipiversity Video Beta

Sat, 12 May 2007 03:39:59 GMT

clipped by: ericskiff
clipper's remarks: After we finished taping today's Clipiversity, Eric and I got to talking and realized that it wouldn't be that much harder to do a video show, and that there's just something compelling about seeing people on screen.

We're thinking about making Clipiversity a daily video show next week. What do you think?

Clip Source: clipiversity.com

As an experiment, we’re trying out a video version of Clipiversity and figured that we’d share the beta with you to see what you think! Clipiversity would still be available in an audio-only format, but also as an ipod and appleTV friendly video that you can view right here on the web.

Here’s our first “beta” episode!

[Video]

Download the video for appleTV and iPod

You can also subscribe to clipiversity in iTunes and automatically get any audio or video we’re producing.

Tags: clipiversity, clipmarks, video

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Nothing

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:20:02 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: 18 So Aristotle was right all along...

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

1 There is vastly more nothing than something. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,” or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4 percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call something.