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Common Errors In English Usage

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:53:55 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Very useful methinks

Clip Source: www.wsu.edu

Common Errors in English

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Tags: english, spelling, usage, grammar

Bibliomania

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:13:21 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

Clip Source: www.bibliomania.com

Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books
Read Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews
Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers
Research our Reference Books, Dictionaries, Quotations, Classic Non-fiction, Biographies and Religious Texts
Buy the books personally read and recommended by Bibliomania

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Tags: literature, books. biographies, book notes, poetry, reference, short stories

Top 10 Sexiest Women Over 60

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:38:08 GMT

clipped by: matteo07
clipper's remarks: This is according to a Russian newspaper web-site. It's an amusing piece which shows that beauty doesn't decline with age.

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

Helen Mirren has been named the world’s sexiest older woman.

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

Second in the list was Hollywood actress and eternal blonde Goldie Hawn.

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

Charlotte Rampling is the third

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

Susan Sarandon

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

Honor Blackman, 80, is the fifth.

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

6 Joanna Lumley, 60

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

7 Vanessa Redgrave, 69

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

8 Lauren Hutton, 80

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

9 Sophia Loren, 72

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

10 Debbie Harry, 61

Tags: sexy, women, old chicks, top-10, lists, entertainment

7 Tips to Simplify Your Life

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:30:43 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: ineedmoretime.com

7 Tips to Simplify Your Life
by Barbara Myers

1. De-clutter. Begin by grabbing an empty shopping bag. Walk around your home. Fill the bag with anything you don't use or love. Place the bag in your car and drop it off at a charitable organization. Repeat weekly.

2. Control your time. Reduce obligations. Learn to say no more often. Even one fewer activity per week can allow you some down time.

3. Do without. Stop impulse purchases. Each item you buy costs more than the purchase price. Consider upkeep costs in both time and dollars.

4. Pare down. Do you really need six spatulas or 30 pairs of shoes?

5. Have a weekly "no noise" day. Turn off the TV and radio. Tune in to nature and your family.

6. Make a list. Split your current activities and tasks into two columns: things I enjoy and things I don't enjoy. How can your reduce the second column and increase the first?

7. Organize everything. What takes up too much of your time? Simplify your routines, paperwork, wardrobe and your life.

Free "50 Ways to Manage Your Time" tips booklet. Visit www.ineedmoretime.com

Publishers may use this article if the bylines are included.

Tags: organization, life

Writely - Google's Free Online Word Processor

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:21:09 GMT

clipped by: knslyr

Clip Source: www.writely.com

Tags: google, word processor, online, web 2.0, technology

When Graphic Artists Get Bored or are on Drugs !!!

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:34:02 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: They're awesome aren't they.

BBW, Hurry up with the Anti-Dote already

Clip Source: homepage.ntlworld.com

When Graphic Artists Get Bored

Tags: photo, photoshop, photography, photos, fun, funny, humor

NS's Anti-tobacco legislation will be strongest in Canada as of December 1, 2006

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:01:40 GMT

clipped by: TheCatWhisperer
clipper's remarks: YAY!!!!

Clip Source: www.sickofsmoke.com

Starting Dec 1, 2006, smoking is one of them.

The new Nova Scotia smoking legislation means smoking will no longer be allowed in bars and restaurants, on restaurant and bar patios, and at events held in private clubs, community centres, arenas and fire halls, to name a few. Workplace smoking rooms will be eliminated too. These amendments to the provincial Smoke-Free Places Act make Nova Scotia’s legislation the strongest in Canada. The goal - to protect Nova Scotians from tobacco smoke.

Nova Scotians have asked for a 100 per cent ban – and that’s what they’re getting. This is just one part of the province’s Tobacco Control Strategy.

For more information on the Smoke Free Places Act,
please call 1-800-565-3611.

Smokers’ Helpline 1-877-513-5333
To read more about the act click here (PDF)

Tags: smoking, tobacco, anti-smoking, health, nova scotia, canada, legislation

Yes, there really are gay animals

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:39:44 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: From Salon magazine, 1999. Research into "alternative sexual behavior" among animals. Apparently, it's much more prevalent than you might think. So much for homosexuality being "unnatural."

Clip Source: www.salon.com

The FABULOUS
- - - - - - - - kingdom of GAY animals

BY SUSAN McCARTHY | The scientist gasps and drops the binoculars. A notebook falls from astonished hands. Graduate students mutter in alarm. Nobody wants to be the one to tell the granting agency what they're seeing.

A female ape wraps her legs around another female, "rubbing her own clitoris against her partner's while emitting screams of enjoyment." The researcher explains: It's a form of greeting behavior. Or reconciliation. Possibly food-exchange behavior. It's certainly not sex. Not lesbian sex. Not hot lesbian sex.

Six bighorn rams cluster, rubbing, nuzzling and mounting each other. "Aggressosexual behavior," the biologist explains. A way of establishing dominance.

A zoo penguin approaches another, bowing winsomely. The birds look identical and a zoogoer asks how to tell males and females apart. "We can tell by their behavior," a researcher explains. "Eric is courting Dora." A keeper arrives with news: Eric has laid an egg.

They've been keeping it from us: There are homosexual and bisexual animals, ranging from charismatic megafauna like mountain gorillas to cats, dogs and guinea pigs. There are transgendered animals, transvestite animals (who adopt the behavior of the other gender but don't have sex with their own), and animals who live in bisexual triads and quartets.

Bagemihl's dry style is obedient to the precepts of scientific writing. He explains why animals can be called homosexual or bisexual, but not gay, lesbian or queer, and he follows the rules -- though "homosexual" frightens some who prefer terms like male-only social interactions, multifemale associations, unisexuality, isosexuality or intrasexuality. (Fortunately, as a book reviewer, I am not bound by this rule. We're talking gay animals!) Yet the book is thrillingly dense with new ideas, and with scandalous animal anecdotes. In other words, an ideal bedside read.

Tags: glbt, science

Schools Offer Cars For Good Attendance

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:49:09 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: WTF! This really boggles my mind!

What next, a motorcycle or trip to Europe just for getting out of bed?

Clip Source: www.newsvine.com

Schools Offer Cars for Good Attendance

Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:04 PM EST

CASPER, WYO. — Sixteen-year-old Kaytie Christopherson was getting ready to do her homework on a Friday when she got a call that made a big improvement in her life: She had won a brand-new pickup truck for near-perfect school attendance. And not just any truck, but a $28,000 Chevrolet Colorado crew cab, in red, with an MP3 player. Freedom comes standard.

"I take it everywhere. To work, school. I don't know, anything I do, I have it out with me," the high school junior said. "I pay attention to where I park it, though."

Public schools commonly reward excellent attendance with movie tickets, gas vouchers and iPods. But some diligent students like Kaytie are now hitting the ultimate teenage jackpot for going to school: They have won cars or trucks.

School districts in Hartford, Conn.; Pueblo, Colo.; South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; and Wickenburg and Yuma, Ariz., are also giving away vehicles this school year.

In most cases the car or truck is donated by a local dealership, and the prizes typically are awarded through drawings open only to students with good attendance.

So does bribing students with the possibility of winning a car or truck actually get them to think twice about staying home from school? Some educators think so, and say their giveaways have boosted attendance. But the evidence is not clear-cut.

Katyie — who has a 4.0 average at Natrona County High, Dick Cheney's alma mater — won her truck last spring, in the school system's first such drawing. But she said that was not what motivated her to keep up her attendance; she just didn't want to fall behind.

District attendance officer Gary Somerville said he hopes to raise attendance and also reduce the district's 29 percent dropout rate, which he blames in part on Wyoming's booming gas-and-oil industry.

"These kids can go out and earn $15, $16, $17 an hour swinging a hammer. It's kind of hard to keep them in school past their 16th birthday," he said.

Tags: schools, bribe, cars, attendance

A Morality Test

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:13:55 GMT

clipped by: Malhablada

Clip Source: www.peskylittlepagan.com

From an e-mail...

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, and spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

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THE SITUATION

You are in New Orleans, There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. You are a photo journalist working for a major newspaper and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, and disappearing under the water.

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THE TEST

Suddenly you see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's the President, George W. Bush. At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options- you can save the life of the President, or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most famous men.

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THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer.......

Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

Tags: humor, politics

Link between mental illness, lack of political awareness, and support for Bush

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:34:54 GMT

clipped by: smit2174
clipper's remarks: Ammo to annoy your conservative friends!

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.

Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse’s study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person’s psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush. [...]

“Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader,” Lohse says. “If your world is very mixed up, there’s something very comforting about someone telling you, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’”

The study was an advocacy project of sorts, designed to register mentally ill voters and encourage them to go to the polls, Lohse explains. The Bush trend was revealed later on. [...]

“Bush supporters had significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry,” the study says.

Tags: bush, voters, 2004 election

Psychology Art Gallery

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:50:29 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.gerardkeegan.co.uk

Psychology Art Gallery

How many Deer?

Tags: psychology, art, brain

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:40:09 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

MS Microsoft Word Font Character Hidden Secret Program Windows XP

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Tags: windows

The Current Prettiest Images

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:12:18 GMT

clipped by: zlaw777
clipper's remarks: just breath-taking

Clip Source: thefairest.info

Tags: images, pics, photography, photo, pic, breath-taking

Wetpaint

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:45:19 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: I'm not interested in 'sharing' stuff, but even I can use this to do a journal-type thing...decorating my entries with my web photos. It lets me keep it private. I'm certain it can do much more than I understand.

Clip Source: www.wetpaint.com

free click-and-type websites you can share with like-minded people.

Tags: internet