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Indian official dies after monkey attack

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:23:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: hilarious!

NEW DELHI - Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported.

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My dream bookshelf.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:44:20 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: i love it. love.

Clip Source: freshome.com

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A Celebration of the English Language

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:44:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rinkworks.com

A Celebration of the English Language

Letter Frequencies - How often does each letter of the alphabet appear in English?

Word Oddities - A collection of miscellaneous fun facts about words.

Palindromes - Sentences that read the same backward as they do forward.

Pangrams - Sentences that contain every letter of the alphabet.

Autograms - Sentences that self-document their letter content.

Conflicting Proverbs - Pairs of wise sayings that contradict each other.

Commonly Looked Up Words - What words are most frequently looked up in dictionaries, and what do they mean?

Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric - What do euphemism, hendiadys, cacophony, and procatalepsis mean?

Glossary of Fun Words - What word means to throw out of a window? To dance a child on one's knees?

Contronyms - Words that serve as their own antonyms.

Unusual Word Forms - Strange ways certain words are pluralized or are changed from one gender to the other.

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Words I wish more people would use.

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:33:35 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: Great list of words; some of them aren't even in most dictionaries.

Clip Source: kaxeeu.wordpress.com

pluvial adj. of or relating to rain; characterized my abundant rain.
inkhorn adj. pedantic.
clarion adj. loud and clear, as a trumpet.
volacious adj. apt or fit to fly.
oneiric adj. of or relating to dreams; dream-like.
defenestrate vb. trans. to throw something/someone out a window.
shanghai vb. trans. to trick someone into doing something.
harangue vb. trans. to lecture at length in an aggressive manner.
fisticuffs n. fighting with the fists.
iniquitous adj. wicked.
incendiary n. arsonist.
reverie n. a daydream.
abulic adj. abnormally unable to make decisions.
cloy vb. trans. to surfeit with an excess of something originally pleasing.
warble vb. intrans. to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments.
ennui n. boredom.
flippant adj. frivolously disrespectful, shallow, lacking in seriousness.

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a personal twist to charity

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:19:58 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: this looks interesting--something i might consider. it feels like youre helping a lot more when you know where your money is going.

check at the source for more.

Clip Source: www.kiva.org

We let you loan to the working poor

Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

We partner with organizations all over the world

Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified borrowers. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva.org, our partners upload their borrower profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them.

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math humor

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:25:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mightywombat.com

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Words for Writers

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:37:50 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: Writers are always looking for that one word to make a sentence pop - here is a good place to find it.

Clip Source: www.chicagowriter.com

Publisher's Note: The idea for a Words for Writers link began when, while browsing through a used-book store, I came across a volume of The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler. This wonderful book is a logophile's dream and it led me to thinking that it's been a long time since vocabulary class and a good writer can always use a superior word...

aegis n. Protection. Sponsorship; patronage. afflatus n. A creative impulse; inspiration. antipode n. A direct or diametrical opposite. avuncular adj. Of or pertaining to an uncle, esp. in benevolence. badinage n. Light, playful banter.

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The Secret To Everything. Definitely worth checking out.

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:32:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this is really interesting.

Clip Source: www.thesecret.tv

The Secret is released to the world! This ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries... to reach you and humankind.

This is The Secret to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.

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Man tries to cash $50K check from God

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:34:34 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

HOBART, Ind. - Kevin Russell found out it's not easy trying to cash a check from God. The 21-year-old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant," Hobart police Detective Jeff White said.

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High school students bored, risk dropping out

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:32:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: oh how true this is. only 2 classes can keep my interest in school. its awful.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - High school students in the United States say they are bored in class and many have considered dropping out, according to a new survey.

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Some Books on Critical Thinking

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:45:23 GMT

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Clip Source: rtnl.wordpress.com

“Teaching Critical Thinking“

There are hundreds of books on thinking and how to improve it, ranging from airport junk to turgid academic treatises. Here is a short list of some of the best, focusing on critical thinking

Cialdini, R. B. (1984). Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

Giere, R. N. (1996). Understanding Scientific Reasoning

Heuer, R. J. (1999). Psychology of Intelligence Analysis.

Kepner, C. H., & Tregoe, B. B. (1997). The New Rational Manager

Minto, B. (1995). The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking.

Myers, D. G. (2002). Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.

Paul, R. W., & Elder, L. (2002). Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

Piatelli-Palmarini, M. (1994). Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule our Minds.

Salmon, M. (1989). Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Spence, G. (1995). How to Argue and Win Every Time

Whyte, J. (2004) Crimes Against Logic

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iPod commercials are rare sources of good music

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:43:27 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: visit source - i couldnt cip the whole thing.

i love ipod commercials because they always have pretty good music that i end up getting. wikipedia has a table of all those songs.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Music featured in televised advertisements

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Myth #1: The Broken Window

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:36:13 GMT

clipped by: maedko
clipper's remarks: The source page lists 10 economic fallacies and explanations of them that are all very interesting and deserving of attention. I only clipped the first paragraph of this myth, so visit the page to see more.

Clip Source: www.mises.org

One of the most persistent is that of the broken window—one breaks and this is celebrated as a boon to the economy: the window manufacturer gets an order; the hardware store sells a window; a carpenter is hired to install it; money circulates; jobs are created; the GDP goes up. In truth, of course, the economy is no better off at all.

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Cleopatra not the beauty many assumed her to be...

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:22:51 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Egyptian queen Cleopatra was no stunner, coin shows

AFP - Wed Feb 14, 7:58 AM ET

LONDON (AFP) - When Shakespeare wrote that the face of Cleopatra, the ancient queen of Egypt, "beggar'd all description", he meant that words could not sum up her beauty.

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Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep?

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:21:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i find this kind of stuff really interesting

Clip Source: www.susanblackmore.co.uk

What could it mean to be conscious in your dreams? For most of us, dreaming is something quite separate from normal life. When we wake up from being chased by a ferocious tiger, or seduced by a devastatingly good-looking Nobel Prize winner we realize with relief or disappointment that "it was only a dream."

Yet there are some dreams that are not like that. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you know at the time that you are dreaming. That they are different from ordinary dreams is obvious as soon as you have one. The experience is something like waking up in your dreams. It is as though you "come to" and find you are dreaming.

Lucid dreams used to be a topic within psychical research and parapsychology. Perhaps their incomprehensibility made them good candidates for being thought paranormal. More recently, however, they have begun to appear in psychology journals and have dropped out of parapsychology—a good example of how the field of parapsychology shrinks when any of its subject matter is actually explained.

Lucidity has also become something of a New Age fad. There are machines and gadgets you can buy and special clubs you can join to learn how to induce lucid dreams. But this commercialization should not let us lose sight of the very real fascination of lucid dreaming. It forces us to ask questions about the nature of consciousness, deliberate control over our actions, and the nature of imaginary worlds.

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Clipmarks | maedko's clips

Indian official dies after monkey attack

My dream bookshelf.

A Celebration of the English Language

A Celebration of the English Language

Words I wish more people would use.

a personal twist to charity

math humor

Words for Writers

The Secret To Everything. Definitely worth checking out.

Man tries to cash $50K check from God

High school students bored, risk dropping out

Some Books on Critical Thinking

iPod commercials are rare sources of good music

Myth #1: The Broken Window

Cleopatra not the beauty many assumed her to be...

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Egyptian queen Cleopatra was no stunner, coin shows

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