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Watch "An Inconvenient Truth" for free

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:03:50 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

There's nothing like a free movie

Ever think, "That movie is so bad, I wouldn't see it if they paid me?"

An Inconvenient Truth tends to have the opposite effect: it is so grounded, so filled with integrity that even a lifelong republican who despised Al Gore in 2000 concludes that it's "simply great" (cite). And our generous donors will buy you the DVD. Oddly enough, this is probably the last movie on Earth that you need to be paid to see.

There's no catch. Fill out the following boxes to request a free DVD:

Tags: dvd, free, movie

The World in 7 Pictures

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:31:42 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: ww2.nutechs.com

Only in China

Only in Hawaii

Only in India

Only in Mexico

Only in Texas

Only In Thailand

Only In America

Tags: pictures, funny, humor, world

How to Get People to Like You

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:23:50 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: A little bit more detailed than the usual "just be yourself", heh.

Clip Source: mysticeye.info

Learn to remember names. A name is very important to someone. If you don’t take the time to learn someone’s name, it indicates that you’re not interested in him or her. When someone remembers your name, it gives you the feeling that you are interesting or important.

Be easy going and natural. When you are stiff, reserved or unresponsive, you unconsciously build up a barrier. But when you are easy going and natural it is easy for people to like you.

Be interesting. Have something to talk about that people find interesting or stimulating. This way people want to be with you.

Don’t have a big ego. If you give the impression that you know it all, that you are superior, you make it hard for people to like you. Be normally humble.

Do some self-study and get rid of negative attitudes. People can consciously or unconsciously pick those up and they might find it irritable to be around you.

Always look for the positive qualities in a person. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Try to build up someone’s ego. Make compliments. Congratulate upon someone’s achievement, or express sympathy when they are in sorrow or if they feel disappointed. The ego is a sacred thing; every human being has the desire to feel important. When you deflate someone’s ego, you are wounding him deep inside.

Give strength to people, support them. Help them to be stronger and they will give you affection.

Whether you like to admit it or not, we want people to like us. If someone tells you that he does not really care if people like him or not, he simply is not being honest. The longing to be liked is one of our deepest desires. We want to be popular, we want people to speak nothing but good of us and we want to have affection of the people around us. It is in our human nature.

Tags: how to, lists, psychology, relationships

Time management

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:44:00 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: It's funny because it's true.

Clip Source: crookedtimber.org

Tags: humour, humor, time

Stupid traffic accidents

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:28:58 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: Let's see. I was driving north when this huge elephant did hit me, officer.

Clip Source: www.hemmy.net

Tags: pictures, list, accident

Verbotomy: The create-a-word game

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:18:42 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: I'm totally into this.

Clip Source: www.verbotomy.com

Verbotomy: How to Play

Verbotomy is about creating words.

Every day we create a new definition and matching cartoon. Your challenge is to create a word -- a verboticism -- that matches the definition. After you create your verboticism, you can vote for, or against, other player's words to help select the winning verboticism for the definition.

If you want more details, click on each step listed below.

1. Read the definition

Each day we publish a new definition and cartoon on the site.

2. Create a new word

After you read the definition, try to think of a new word — a verboticism — that would be a perfect fit.

The new verboticism must be all letters (a-z), all-one-word, with no spaces, dashes, numbers, or special characters.

Ideally your new verboticism will not match any existing dictionary-words (i.e., it is new and different), but this is not an absolute requirement.

The best verboticisms are pronounceable, and hint at the meaning.

3. Save your word

When you submit your verboticism, you will get an instant verbotometry. This rates your verboticism based on its spelling, match to existing dictionary-words, and uniqueness.

Your verboticism may be a unique. Or, it may match a verboticism already submitted by another player. Authors of matching verboticism will automatically be joined together as co-creators of the word. (Each co-creator will get equal credit.)

Once you are happy with your verboticism, save it.

VERBOTOMICS:
After you save your verboticism, you can add notes to clairify the pronounciation, show sample use in a sentence, and explain its etymology — the root words or creative inspiration. (Each creator of the verboticism can edit these notes.)

4. Vote for your favorite words

Each player gets two votes, but you cannot vote for your own word.

DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.

Create | Vote

Tags: game, funny, fun, humor, words, writers

10 Signs you've been using Firefox too long

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:46:52 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: penguinpetes.com

1. You sit right next to a window but you still just look at your ForecastFox icon to see what it's like outside.

2. You fumble with the TV remote for a minute before remembering that you can't open another channel in a new tab.

3. Everybody else says "Google it" now, but in addition you can also Yahoo it, Wiki it, and eBay it.

4. Your sole measure of a celebrity's popularity is whether they appear on Stumble-Upon.

5. You have to think hard to remember what a pop-up or a banner ad looks like.

6. You think Debian should have backed down on the whole Iceweasel thing.

7. Your distaste for Internet Explorer has branched into an irrational phobia of the letter 'e'.

8. You message your spouse through ChatZilla to find out what's for dinner instead of just going upstairs.

9. A web page without CSS looks naked to you.

10. Your spelling used to be terrible until version 2.0 came out.

Tags: funny, humor, firefox, lists

Trip To Wal-Mart

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:47:03 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: officespam.chattablogs.com

Dear Mrs. Fenton,

Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and may ban both of you from our stores. We have documented all incidents on our video surveillance equipment. All complaints against Mr. Fenton are listed below.

June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.

July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in House wares to go off at 5-minute intervals.

July 7: Made! a trai l of tomato juice on the floor leading to the ladies rest rooms.

July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in house wares..... and watched what happened.

August 4: Went to the Service Desk and asked to put a bag of M&M's on layaway.

September 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.

September 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.

September 23: When a clerk asks if they can help him, he begins to cry and asks, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'

October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, and picked his nose.

November 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, asked the clerk if he knows where the antidepressants are.

December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission I! mpossib le" theme.

December 6: In the auto department, practiced his "Madonna look" using different size funnels.

December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browse through, yelled "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"

December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumes the fetal position and screams "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!!"

December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"

Tags: funny, humor, walmart, shopping

5 tricks for taking professional digital photos

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:58:40 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: Basic but effective.

Clip Source: samirbharadwaj.com

1. Use the vertical

2. Switch off that flash

3. Get close to your subject

4. Use the Rule of Thirds

5. Save face with telephoto

Tags: photography, digital, tricks, lists, howto

Leonardo Da Vinci inventions

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:23:19 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: [excerpt]

Clip Source: stupidbeaver.com

Clock

Anemometer

Camera obscura

Da Vinci’s Tanks

Flying Machines

Armoured vessel

Parachute

Helicopter

Triple-Tier Machine Gun

Printing Press

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the “Renaissance man”, a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
He was born and raised in Vinci, Italy. Leonardo is famous for his realistic paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. Heconceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, notably conceptually inventing a helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics, the double hull, and many others. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were feasible during his lifetime; modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. In addition, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics). Of his works, only a few paintings survive, together with his notebooks (scattered among various collections) containing drawings, scientific diagrams and notes.

Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense; “da Vinci” simply means “from Vinci”. His full birth name was “Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci”, meaning “Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci.”Ok enough about Da Vinci,lets talk about his inventions.

Tags: da vinci, inventions, pictures

How to be the perfect boyfriend

Mon, 14 May 2007 02:55:28 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: msn.match.com

…gives us butterflies in the beginning

…makes us laugh

…shows us affection in tender ways

…comes out with our friends and plays the role of token adorable guy

…agrees to go splitsies when we order food

…surprises us with thoughtful gifts and gestures

…compliments us on things other than our looks

…but, yeah, he also tells us we’re beautiful and hot, like, all the time

…gives us cards with stuff written in them

…calls us on our questionable behavior

…makes us trust him completely.

…thinks it’s adorable when we’re our all-alone-selves in front of him.

Perfect boyfriend list circa 1986: Cute. On lacrosse team. And, like, totally likes me. Perfect boyfriend list circa 1996: Has a great job. Social. Lives in same city. Perfect boyfriend list circa 2006: Big heart. Faithful. Fun. Potentially a great dad.

Tags: relationships, women

The Life Span of Animals

Mon, 14 May 2007 03:11:52 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: sonic.net

One of the more frequently asked questions is how long are animals of a given species expected to live.

This chart provides the expected maximum life span for a variety of animals in years. Many of the values are based on record life spans taken from various sources.

Tags: lists, tables, life, animals, nature, time, years

CSI episode generator

Mon, 14 May 2007 03:05:02 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: Everytime you refresh, you get a new CSI episode.

Clip Source: www.ytcracker.com

csi episode generator

hit f5 to generate a new episode.

the episode begins with grissom finding an entrepreneur dead in a strip club. grissom questions a few local people, including a doctor, a truck driver, and a blackjack dealer. finally the breakthrough comes when willows finds some dna from a fingernail. grissom goes back to the group and finds it was actually a doctor the whole time, whom they had questioned before. grissom says "Honk if you love peace and quiet." and the episode fades to black.

Tags: fun, csi, tv, random, generator

Tilt-Shift Photography

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:21:39 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: xenmate.blogspot.com

Cool models, right?

WRONG! These are real photographs by Olivo Barbieri. Link.

You can find the definitive Tilt-Shift photography links page here.

Tags: photography, pictures, tilt-shift, models

List of lists

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:43:28 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.listof.org

The website www.listof.org is a place where one can find lists of almost anything to suit their needs. The lists are divided by subject and can be browsed easily to find what you are looking for.

One of the types of lists that are offered includes lists dealing with historical facts. If you are looking for a president, places or battles during a war, or even a list of the state capitals, this is one place to look. For those interested in present day material, careers, colleges and universities, dental schools, insurance companies, etc. are all available for your browsing needs.

This is one place to go if you are expecting a baby and need a variety of both boy and girls names to look up. If you are still at the stage where you are engaged, wedding songs and love songs are lists available for your use.

list of all fruits

list of imax theaters

free list of government grants

list of popular wedding songs

list of home based businesses

list of california cities

list of safest cars

list of insurance companies