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Tags: youtube, video, mp3, ipod

Freeware library

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:52:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.giveawayoftheday.com

Freeware library

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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

Critical Thinking On The Web

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:51:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.austhink.com

Top Ten

Argument Mapping Tutorials. Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking.
The Skeptic's Dictionary - over 400 definitions and essays.
The Fallacy Files by Gary Curtis. Best website on fallacies.
Butterflies and Wheels. Excellent reading - news, articles, and much more.
Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts by Peter Facione. Good overview of the nature of critical thinking. (pdf file)
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion by John Stuart Mill. Classic chapter, densely packed with wisdom about thinking.
Chance - best resource for helping students think critically about issues involving probability and statistics
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, by Richards Heuer. A good overview of how to improve thinking in the light of insights from cognitive psychology.
A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretative Essays by Ian Johnston
Baloney Detection Part 1 and Part 2 - by Michael Shermer. 10 step guide.

Tags: critical thinking, bull-shit detection

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

Unintentionally funny newspaper headlines

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:35:46 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: funnies.paco.to

Some are just slips of the tongue

Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes gas tax onto senate
Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
William Kelly was fed secretary
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
Farmer bill dies in house
Iraqi head seeks arms

Some become unintentionally suggestive

Queen Mary having bottom scraped
Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
Prostitutes appeal to Pope
Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over
NJ judge to rule on nude beach
Child's stool great for use in garden
Dr. Ruth to talk about sex with newspaper editors
Soviet virgin lands short of goal again
Organ festival ends in smashing climax

Grammar often botches other headlines

Eye drops off shelf
Squad helps dog bite victim
Dealers will hear car talk at noon
Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests
Miners refuse to work after death
Two Soviet ships collide - one dies
Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter

Once in a while, a botched headline takes on a meaning opposite from the one intended:

Never withhold herpes from loved one
Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy
Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984
Autos killing 110 a day, let's resolve to do better

Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious

If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while
War dims hope for peace
Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
Cold wave linked to temperatures
Child's death ruins couple's holiday
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
Man is fatally slain
Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation

Tags: funny, humor, newspapers, headlines

Sensible 404 error page

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:53:29 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.ziff.net

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If you are about to spend another $100 at Amazon, then please contact Amazon Anonymous.

To go outside, first click the Cyber Hypnosis menu, and then click Cold Water in the Face. On the Numb Ass tab, click Sedentary Back Pain. The Get Out of Your Chair settings should match those provided by your local area network (LAN) administrator.

If your Evil Computer Addict persona has enabled it, we can examine your network and quickly discover a way to wake you up from your computer-induced stupor.

If you would like Windows to try and discover them,
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There are a host of things awaiting you in the outside world: fishing, skiing, skeet shooting, triathlons, PTA meetings, and dentist appointments, for example.

If you are unable to get up, click here and your power strip will emit a large enough shock to scare you back to your senses. If that doesn't work, then we give up. You are officially in need of some serious help. Dial 1-800-GET-HELP on your computer's keypad to reach a mental hospital near you.

Click the Back button to melt your computer.

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Tags: 404, error page, funny, humor

Watch "An Inconvenient Truth" for free

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:03:50 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: sharethetruth.us

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.

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Tags: dvd, free, movie

500 Mostly Useless Facts

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:57:52 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
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Clip Source: www.djtech.net

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

23. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

27. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

32. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

35. Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

46. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

52. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

57. In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

58. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

60. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

63. %60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.

65. Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

67. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

71. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

75. Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

83. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.

84. 1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant.

88. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

91. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

92. The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.

Tags: lists, useless, facts

39 Monty Python sketches

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:28:50 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

Clip Source: hightechnews.info

1. Monty Python - Self Defence Class
3. Monty Python - married
2. Monty Python - Burma
3. Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
4. Monty Python - International Philosophy
5. Monty Python - Kilimanjaro Expedition
6. Monty Python - Arguement Clinic
7. Monty Python - Funniest Joke
8. Monty Python - The Visitors Sketch
9. Monty Python - Tobacconist Sketch
10. Monty Python - Twit Olympics
11. Monty Python - Agatha Christie Sketch
12. Monty Python - Lumberjack Sketch
13. Monty Python - Eat Me!!
14. Monty Python - The Galaxy Song
15. Monty Python - Mr. Creosote
16. Monty Python - Star Trek
17. Monty Python - Nudge Nudge
18. Monty Python - Football
19. Monty Python - Dirty fork
20. Monty Python - Hospital Sketch
21. Monty Python - Killer Rabbit
22. Monty Python - Dead Parrot
23. Monty Python - Restaurante
24. Monty Python - Force
25. Monty Python - Jumpstyle
26. Monty Python - Graveside
27. Monty Python - Mosquito Hunting
28. Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
29. Monty Python - Military Fairy Routine
30. Monty Python - Courtroom Sketch
31. Monty Python - The Spanish Inquisition
32. Monty Python - Coconut
33. Monty Python - Salad Days
34. Monty Python - The Accident Sketch
35. Monty Python - Twit Race Sketch
36. Monty Python - Courtroom Charades
37. Monty Python - The Prejudice Show
38. Monty Python - The man who is alternately rude and polite
39. Monty Python - Milkman

Tags: humor, funny, monty python, videos, youtube

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

The “Ideal” Female Body

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:18:04 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: healthbolt.net

1639 - The Three Graces; Pieter Pauwel Rubens

1887 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Bathers

1920 - Thin, short haired flapper.

1950 - Marylin Monroe (Size 14)

1960 - Twiggy Lawson (Aka the beginning of the end.) This was the first time in history that an under weight woman became the standard for the ideal body image.

1970’s - Karen Carpenter (Died in 1983 from heart failure as a complication of Anorexia Nervosa)

1988 - Cosmopolitan

2002 - Harper’s Bazaar

Modern day Fashion Model

Quick point of reference for that last one:

1944 - Nazi Holocaust Victim

Tags: fashion, body, female, women, lists, pictures

McDonald's Application

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:10:46 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.thealders.net

This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida........and they hired him because he was so honest and funny!

Name: Greg Bulmash

Sex: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.

Desired Position: Company's President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be applying here in the first place.

Desired Salary: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

Education: Yes.

Last Position Held: Target for middle management hostility.

Salary: Less than I'm worth.

Most Notable Achievement: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.

Reason For Leaving: It sucked.

Hours Available To Work: Any.

Preferred Hours: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Do You Have Any Special Skills?: Yes, but they're better suited to a more intimate environment.

May We Contact Your Current Employer?: If I had one, would I be here?

Do You Have Any Physical Conditions That Would Prohibit You From Lifting Up To 50 Lbs?: Of what?

Do You Have A Car?: I think the more appropriate question here would be "Do you have a car that runs?"

Have You Received Any Special Awards Or Recognition?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.

Do You Smoke?: On the job no, on my breaks yes.

What Would You Like To Be Doing In Five Years?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.

Do you Certify That The Above Is True And Complete To The Best Of Your Knowledge?: Yes. Absolutely.

Sign Here: Aries.

Tags: humor, funny, application, mcdonalds, jobs

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Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious

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The “Ideal” Female Body

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