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Rescues

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:36:41 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

'bearly' hanging on

A bear walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy. 40 at Donner Summit in Truckee, Calif.) on Saturday was spooked when two cars caused the bear to jump over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull herself to safety. At one point the bear tested her ability to climb down by lowering her feet down the side, but decided against that idea and pulled herself back up! Authorities realizing that nothing could be done to help Saturday night, returned Sunday morning to find her sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge, the bear was tranquilized. The groggy bear fell into the net, was lowered, then woke up and walked off.

Tags: animals

top 10 weirdest keyboards

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:48:38 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: www.wonderfulinfo.com

10. Roll-up keyboard

9. The wrist keyboard

8. Maltron 3D Ergonomic Keyboard

7. The SafeType keyboard

6. Virtual Laser Keyboard

5. The frogpad

4. The Twiddler 2

3. The Orbitouch

2. The Datahand

1. The Tidy Tippist

Tags: photos

Road of Death

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:02:23 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: frostfirepulse.com

#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia

North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. This one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the world’s most dangerous road.”

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5 Best FREE Music Listening Sites

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:18:08 GMT

clipped by: k9riley99

Clip Source: pcworld.about.com

5 Best Free Music Listening Sites

Echo.com: Interactive radio station lets you choose the music genres and vote on the playlist.

IUMA.com: Unsigned acts in spades...and in MP3 format.

Live365.com: Online broadcaster lets you search for acts through thousands of stations, or create your own station.

MP3.com: Eclectic mix of downloadable and broadcast tunes.

Sonicnet.com: Hip news and reviews, downloadable music, radio broadcasting, and videos on demand.

Tags: music, free, interactive radio stations, mp3 format, videos

The 130 World's Healthiest Foods

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:32:22 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: www.whfoods.com

130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

Vegetables Fish & Seafood

Fruits

Low Fat Dairy

Beans & Legumes

Poultry & Lean Meats

Nuts & Seeds

Grains

Spices & Herbs

Natural Sweeteners

Other

Tags: food, health

Free Online Photo and Image Editor

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:26:32 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Use it a lot. Not a lot of excess features, just sweet and simple for quick image editting.

Clip Source: www.creatingonline.com

Free Online Photo and Image Editor

Nothing to download or install. No applets or activex.
All editing is done via your browser!

Resize - Scale - Rotate - Flip - Crop - Add Text - Add Clipart - Color Correction - Grayscale - Colorize - Set Transparency - Photo Optimizer - Reduce File Size - Edit Photo Dimensions - More!

Upload JPG / GIF / PNG image file formats
Images saved as JPG or PNG (including transparent PNG)

Maximums: 2400 x 2400 pixels, 2 MB

EASY - Drag-n-Drop tool windows, clipart, and text to position as needed
MISTAKE PROOF - Use "UNDO" function if ever not satisfied with changes
OPTIMIZATION - Decrease photo file size with minimal loss of quality

Tags: free, online services

The best FIREFOX add-ons (1)

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:14:40 GMT

clipped by: blusior
clipper's remarks: nice and useful,utile dulci

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Gmail Space 0.5.3 by Rahul Jonna, tnarik

This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.5 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.

After the installation, you'll get an option called "GSpace" in your "Tools" menu, which opens the GSpace window.

It's great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace).

If you have any problems with the extension, please look at the FAQ page (http://www.getspace.com/faq.html). If your question is not listed or the solution doesn't apply to your specific question, please email the current developer (tnarik).

Let's do something interesting: send your suggestions about Gspace to tnarik until 23/11/2006. Let's see what we can we do to please you all.

Gmail Manager 0.5.3 by Todd Long

Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2 by CPU, onemen

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Firefox Showcase

More previews…

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Fotofox

More previews…

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

yourminis.com HUD

More previews…

Tags: firefox

Turn Google into Napster

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:45:58 GMT

clipped by: alongcool
clipper's remarks: awesome!

Clip Source: tech-tonic.net

Okay peeps, I’m sure most of you know how to use Limewire and Bittorrent these days. But, I’ll bet you haven’t used Google to perform a quick Mp3 search for the nagging song that’s been stuck in your head all day. The truth is that Google can be used to conduct a search for almost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. This functionality has been available for a long time, but most users haven’t caught on to it. So here’s a quick example of how to use Google to search for Mp3s. It’s like turning Google into the Napster of 2000.

The following is a Google search string for searching open web directories containing downloadable Nirvana music files. Substitute the term Nirvana in the search string for any other band of your liking. You can always bookmark the search result for future use.

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana”

With some very slight modifications the same search string can easily be used to search for ebooks in DOC and PDF format:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″

Or perhaps your looking for some specific video file:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “towelie”

You can check the official Google Advanced Search Operators page for further details on editing this search string to meet your specific needs. Enjoy yourselves!

Now thry this http://www.briefli.com/ link it does exactly what we tought of doing above.

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Tags: google

Christmas Jokes

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:33:52 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: www.jibjab.com

Tags: jokes

Your cell phone is a "roving bug"

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:57:17 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: According to this report, the FBI can activate a remote tracking and listening device built into every recently-made cell phone without having to modify or handle the phone physically. The only way to defeat the bug is to remove the phone's battery.

Clip Source: www.ktre.com

Court Says FBI Can Use Your Cell Phone To Spy... On You

Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.

A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.

"The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them," James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added.

According to the recent court ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, "The device functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be."

The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by "roving bugs" on the phones of John Ardito, a high-ranking member of the family, and Peter Peluso, an attorney and close associate of Ardito, who later cooperated with the government. The "roving bugs" were approved by a judge after the more conventional bugs planted at specified locations were discovered by members of the crime family, who then started to conduct their business dealings in several additional locations, including more restaurants, cars, a doctor's office and public streets.

Tags: privacy, news, technology

Globalization

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:59:03 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: www.forwardedtome.com

Finally, a definition of globalization I can understand and relate to.

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana’s death.

Question: How come?

Answer:

An English princess,
with an Egyptian boyfriend
crashes in a French tunnel,
driving a German car,
with a Dutch engine,
driven by a Belgian who was drunk
on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)
followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,
on Japanese motorcycles;
treated by an American doctor,
using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by an Englishman,
using Bill Gates’s technology,
and you’re probably reading this on your computer,
that use Taiwanese chips,
and a Korean monitor,
assembled by Bangladeshi workers
in a Singapore plant,
transported by Indian lorry-drivers,
hijacked by Indonesians,
unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,
and trucked to you by Mexican illegals…..

And that, my friends, is Globalization

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Tags: interesting

strange statues around the world

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:15:27 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: haha.nu

Tags: photos

Bayview Subway Station, Toronto

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:16:23 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis
clipper's remarks: not sure about this kind of art? any comments??

Clip Source: haha.nu

Bayview Subway Station, Toronto

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The Acronym Dictionary

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:05:45 GMT

clipped by: kdupuis

Clip Source: www.acronymdictionary.co.uk

The Acronym Dictionary
http://www.acronymdictionary.co.uk

Acronyms are those things made up of what seems like random letters you see on the internet, in chat rooms and newsgroups. This dictionary lists all the acronyms I know and more. However there must be more that I don't know about so if you know of any that I haven't got then just click here to go to the submission page. Also if you have found an acronym that I haven't got listed then click here to go to the submission page, enter it there and I'll see what I can do.

To start looking through the dictionary click the letter you want to start with:

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

Get a free webbased e-mail address @acronyms.co.uk, just Click Here to sign up and login.

Tags: dictionary

Download usable Youtube videos

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:27:57 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: Don't even have to download any software. Haven't extensively tested it yet, but it does look promising.

Clip Source: vixy.net

FLV Online Converter - ver.0.5.1202

Clip Source: vixy.homeip.net

URL (FLV file URL or web page*):

* Web page that embedded a YouTube Video.
* URL example:
- http://vixy.net/flv/vixy_net_podcaster_demo_director.flv
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=J7JmsMMIR4Y

You have used 0% of your bandwith for this one hour.

Details:

This service converts a FLV file (Youtube's movie,etc) to another format (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP). The service is using a unique technologies (JP), and converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and losslessy than a typical transcoder.

When you submit an url, this service will download and convert the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

New!: FLV to MPEG4 Conveter engine is now OpenSource!

Tags: youtube, video, mp3, ipod

Clipmarks | kdupuis's clips

Rescues

top 10 weirdest keyboards

Road of Death

#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia

5 Best FREE Music Listening Sites

5 Best Free Music Listening Sites

The 130 World's Healthiest Foods

Free Online Photo and Image Editor

The best FIREFOX add-ons (1)

Gmail Space 0.5.3 by Rahul Jonna, tnarik

Gmail Manager 0.5.3 by Todd Long

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2 by CPU, onemen

Turn Google into Napster

Christmas Jokes

Your cell phone is a "roving bug"

Globalization

Globalization

Posted November 17, 2006

strange statues around the world

Bayview Subway Station, Toronto

The Acronym Dictionary

Download usable Youtube videos

FLV Online Converter - ver.0.5.1202

URL (FLV file URL or web page*):

Details: