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meet your commenters

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:18:22 GMT

clipped by: marcel

Mit Meet Your Commenters hat man nun die Möglichkeit mit einem Klick die verschiedenen Profile eines Kommentator zu finden. Die Voraussetzung ist, dass die Person kommentiert und eine Website angibt. Dadurch gibt sie sich bereits zu erkennen und man könnte mit etwas Aufwand mehr über sie herausfinden. Das Plugin nimmt uns diese Arbeit ab und arbeitet ähnlich wie eine Personensuchmaschine, bisher unverknüpfte Daten werden verbunden.

Tags: wordpress

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:54:24 GMT

clipped by: mingkymomo

Clip Source: healthbolt.net

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Tags: coke, drink, sugar, effect, soda, health, caffeine, science, fact, interest, interesting, cocacola, pepsi

Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:35:06 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: pretty funny stuff

Clip Source: www.lucidcafe.com

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Never lick a steak knife.

The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Tags: funny, humor

70 Ways to Better Brain Power

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:27 GMT

clipped by: nhorn

Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

1. Breath deep. More air in means more oxygen in the blood and therefore in the brain. Breath through your nose and you'll notice that you use your diaphragm more, drawing air deeper into your lungs. Several deep breaths can also help to relax you, which is conducive to clearer thinking.

2. Meditate. A simple meditation you can do right now is just closing your eyes and paying attention to your breath. Tensing up your muscles and then relaxing them to start may help. When your mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breath. Five or ten minutes of this will usually relax you, clear your mind, and leave you more ready for any mental task. For more on meditation, you can visit http://www.TheMeditationSite.com.

3. Sit up straight. Posture affects your thinking process. Prove it to yourself by doing math in your head while slouching, looking at the floor and letting your mouth hang open. Then do the mental math while sitting up straight, keeping your mouth closed and looking forward or slightly upwards. You'll notice that it's easier to think with the latter posture.

4. Phosphotidyl Serine (PS). This supplement has been shown in clinical studies to increase lucidity and rate of learning. It activates cell-to-cell communication, helps regulate cell growth, improves the functioning of the special receptors found on cells, and prepares cells for activity. In other words, it can help your brain power. It's also thought to reverse memory decline. Phosphatidylserine has no known adverse side effects.

5.Vinpocetine. This extract, derived from an alkaloid found in the Periwinkle plant, is used as a cerebral vasodilator. It increases blood flow to the brain, which improves its oxygenation and thereby increases mental alertness and acuity. Research suggests it may also be the most powerful memory enhancer available to date.

Tags: brain

5 Steps to Being More Photogenic

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:24:15 GMT

clipped by: meerkat
clipper's remarks: So useful for professional portraits, or for random pictures with your friends. Ah, vanity.

Clip Source: www.digitalcamerau.com

Step 1

If you are standing - turn slightly and rest your weight on one foot. It may FEEL goofy, but you WILL look better.

If you are sitting – angle to one side or the other.

Step 2

Lean slightly toward the camera – Leaning slightly toward the camera adds interest, dimension, and a natural look to a photo. Think of having a long neck like a gazelle, and tilt your chin down just a bit to avoid the appearance of a double chin and also to prevent the camera from getting a view right up your nostrils.

Step 3

Models are taught to change state by developing a ‘trigger.’ So when they are about to have their picture taken, even if they are in a crummy mood, they can go from level 1 to level 5 in a heart beat. Firing a trigger is a reminder to do the things that make you look good. Believe it or not, THE most successful trigger we found over the years was called the ‘rear cheek squeeze.’ It’s really cool because it’s inconspicuous. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like; you squeeze the cheeks of your rear end together. Don’t make fun of it until you try it. To see it’s effectiveness try this experiment. Ask someone to sit on a chair and then ask them to squeeze their cheeks together. I have not met ONE person who doesn’t immediately smile and say something like, okay, now what?

Step 4

Learn to ¾ smile – People just don’t like pictures of themselves with huge smiles. Smiling too big exposes gums and causes your eyes to turn into slits.

Step 5

Never look directly at the lens – ALWAYS, look slightly ABOVE the lens.

Tags: tips, photo, howto

11 Tools for conveniently sending files upto 1.5 GB

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:15:01 GMT

clipped by: esengulov
clipper's remarks: article lists 9 popular websites and 2 very cool desktop applications that let you transfer files by simply specifying email of recipeint and file to send

Clip Source: www.makeuseof.com

	max. size	days before file deleted	Sign-up Required
YouSendIt	1 gb	7	No
Gigasize	1.5 gb	90 days	Yes
TransferBigFiles	1 gb	5 days	No
MegaShares	1.5 gb	7 days	No
BigUpload.	500 mb	30 days after last download	No
MailBigFile	500 mb	7	No
FileUpload	500 mb	7	No
Zupload	500 mb	30 days after last download	No
Spread-it .	500 mb .	14 days .	No .

Tags: pando, allpeers, email, transfer, files, yousendit

Neat tricks to teach your body

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:46:13 GMT

clipped by: abramsv
clipper's remarks: Some little-known practical tips about your body, such as:
If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side - etc.

Clip Source: thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Neat tricks to teach your body

Some little-known practical tips about your body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.

2. Your right ear is better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech (good tip for spies!) The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

5. Clear your stuffed nose!

Forget Sudafed. An easier way is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger.

7. Cure your toothache

Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger... reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent

15. If your hand falls asleep

rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute.

Tags: health

The Problem of the Music -with majorlabels

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:09:32 GMT

clipped by: marcel
clipper's remarks: a bit older but nevertheless very good article about what artists mostly earn with contracs with majorlabels. it ain't that much..
check the source for the rest of the article

Clip Source: www.negativland.com

The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.

Tags: music, musicindustry, majorlabels

web2.0 datenschutz

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:24:25 GMT

clipped by: marcel
clipper's remarks: tja, der don

Clip Source: www.blogbar.de

Die anderen Web2.0-Freunde: Kann schon sein, dass manche Software ganz witzig ist. Kann auch sein, dass manches Projekt sein Geld wert ist. Aber die Kombination Blog, Flickr, Places, OpenBC und andere Spielzeuge sind, wenn man nicht verdammt aufpasst, zusammengenommen eine Dystopie, gegen die RFID, Biometrik und der grosse Lauschangriff ein kleiner Scheiss sind. Weil plötzlich jeder über sich und andere praktisch unbegrenzt Informationen verbreiten, verraten, und jenseits aller weiterer Einflussnahme abstellen kann.

Tags: web2.0 datenschutz

copyright- We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:01:44 GMT

clipped by: marcel

Clip Source: www.dmcdeutschland.de

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), amerikanischer Folksänger:
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years,and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

Tags: copyrights

why allpeers

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:43:13 GMT

clipped by: marcel
clipper's remarks: I'm still well excited about it and can't wait it to come.

Clip Source: www.allpeers.com

What we’re aiming for is a real media management system, with sharing capabilities, not just a point-to-point file transfer mechanism. The system should understand what you are sharing and make it easy to search, browse and view, not just zap anonymous bags of bytes back and forth. The nice thing about our platform is that it is highly extensible, so we can use the same approach to replicate calendar events, restaurant reviews, used car ads or whatever across a network of computers, with each type of data being displayed and managed in the appropriate way inside the browser.

Tags: allpeers