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Inteligent Life on Earth

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:49:17 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: theparkbencher.blogspot.com

+ Stephen Hawking discussed the possibility of life on other planets on Monday at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of NASA. Apparently, it was also a roast: "Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare," he said, quickly adding, "Some would say it has yet to occur on earth." Ha, that Hawking.

The REAL reason we use Linux

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:57:31 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: blog.anamazingmind.com

We tell people we use Linux because it's secure. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support...

But all of that is just marketing bullshit. We tell that to non-Linuxers because they wouldn't understand the real reason. And when we say those false reasons enough, we might even start to believe them ourselves.

But deep underneath, the real reason remains.

We use Linux because it's fun!

Friendship Between Women and Men

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:35:27 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: callhart.com

Friendship Between Women and Men

Friendship Between Women:

* A woman didn’t come home one night…..
* The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend’s house.
* The man called his wife’s 10 best friends.
* None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship Between Men:

* A man didn’t come home one night…..
* The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend’s house.
* The woman called her husband’s 10 best friends,
* Eight of which confirmed that he had slept over
* Two said that he was still there

L’esprit de l’escalier (stairway wit)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:43:29 GMT

clipped by: janamo81
clipper's remarks: happens to me all the time =>

Clip Source: listverse.com

L’esprit de l’escalier (stairway wit) is the sense of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult, or any witty, clever remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—when one is on the “staircase” leaving the scene. The German word treppenwitz is used to express the same idea. The closest phrase in English to describe this situation is “being wise after the event”. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at having not thought of the riposte when it was most needed or suitable.

0 Comments 33 Recommended Best Time to Buy Airline Tickets

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:30:30 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.menshealth.com

What: Airline tickets
When: 1 a.m. on Wednesday

Why: This is the best time to find a deal because airlines reset their fares every Wednesday just after midnight, says Peter Greenberg, Men's Health Travel Detective

The best interview ever

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:48 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.instanthumour.com

This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to sponsor Boy Scouts visiting his military installation.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and
shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you’re equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?

Hidden Battery Power

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:01:40 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.michaelliew.com

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

Languages of Europe

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:57:06 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: upload.wikimedia.org

A good trick to try on a group of drunken scientists!

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:54:46 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.grand-illusions.com

A good trick to try on a group of drunken scientists!

HOW TO DO THE TRICK

Explain that just as a glass prism splits up the different colours of white light, when different coloured light passes through glass, it is also affected to an extent that depends on its colour.

Write the words CARBON DIOXIDE on a piece of paper, CARBON in red and DIOXIDE in blue. Put the paper close behind the stem of a wine glass, and look at the words through the stem. The red letters turn upside down, but the blue ones don't.

So is the glass affecting the red light more than the blue?

HOW IT WORKS

You weren't fooled, were you? This has nothing to do with the different colours of the words, or of red light being bent more or less than blue light.

The stem of the wine glass turns both words upside down, but because DIOXIDE is symmetrical about a horizontal line, you don't notice that it is upside down - it looks just the same either way.

A lecture about English

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:10:56 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.joppeluiten.nl

A lecture about English

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day.

"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

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So that’s how it works…

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:53:29 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: craftydaisies.com

So that’s how it works…

April 17th, 2007 by Candace

I found this amazing little illustration over on Meg’s site and it’s a great way to explain how a bobbin works on a sewing machine. Actually, it’s pretty relaxing to just watch it over and over. Okay, maybe that’s just me.

Dissolving Paper Shampoo

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:44:33 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.spoonsisters.com

As featured in "Good" Magazine. Ideal for use when traveling or camping, this unique shampoo works even with sea water. Sorry, Cream Rinse Paper is not available. Mint fragrance. 30 single use sheets in a convenient plastic container.

Price: $12.50

Dissolving Paper Shampoo - Set of 2

One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Googly Eyes!

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:43:47 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: www.evilmadscientist.com

After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this write up we walk through the process and show you how to make your own.

Your Everyday Latin

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:02:33 GMT

clipped by: Bluephoenix4
clipper's remarks: Actum est, comites ! XD

Clip Source: www.columbia.edu

What's happening?
Quid fit?

Don't you dare erase my hard disk!
Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!

BEWARE OF DOG
CAVE CANEM

DO NOT DISTURB
NOLI PERTURBARE

THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING
TIBI GRATIAS AGIMUS QUOD NIHIL FUMAS

Have a nice day.
Die dulci fruimini.

Just do it
Modo fac

Go ahead. Make my day.
Age. Fac ut gaudeam.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Beam me up, Scotty!
Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Your fly is open.
Braccae tuae aperiuntur.

Your place or mine?
Apudne te vel me?

Save the whales
Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt

Have you lost weight?
Nonne macescis?

You're from New York, aren't you?
Nonne de Novo Eboraco venis?

What's up, Doc?
Quid agis, Medice?

You know, Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

Really Rad, dude!
Radicitus, comes!

Tags: latin, everyday, language, trivia, rome, phrases, amusing

Cool StumbleUpon Trick

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:23:06 GMT

clipped by: janamo81

Clip Source: patrickdevivo.com

Cool StumbleUpon Trick

December 29, 2007

This is a nifty trick that I figured out that you can use to impress your StumbleUpon addicted friends. You can create an error page on StumbleUpon.com that displays a personal error, all from your web browser. Let me show you:

The url to StumbleUpon’s error page is this: http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php

If you follow the link above, it will take you to a page which says “unkown error”, this is because StumbleUpon doesn’t know what the error is. You can insert an error message by using the following url format:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=YOUR%20MESSAGE%20HERE

(%20 is used to show that there is a space there. Insert it between the letters otherwise your browser won’t load the page.)

You can then make something like this to send to your friends:

StumbleUpon Error Page

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