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Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:13:40 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

AfterVote

Footnote

Hard to Find 800 Numbers

Ninjawords

Uncyclopedia

Wikisky.org

Wink

Cork'd

ExtraTasty

Lumosity

Menupages

Top Secret Recipes

Who Is Sick?

The World's Healthiest Foods

Dethroner

EXPN

FirstShowing.net

Going.com

I Can Has Cheezburger?

iminlikewithyou

I Watch Stuff

MeeVee

MyPunchbowl

Skeptic

BullPoo

Indeed

Kiva

Rentometer

Trulia

AllHipHop.com

Amie Street

Beethere.net

Imeem

Musicovery

SingShot

Slacker

Guerrilla News Network

MediaStorm

Tech President

Topix

Act-I-Vate

copyblogger

Goodreads

Ironic Sans

Librivox

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Verbotomy

xkcd

The Bargainist

Do My Stuff

EuroCheapo

Roadside America

TheThingsIWant.com

Ugallery.com

Wikitravel

Yapta

afreeDLL

DaFont

DZone

Infected or Not

InviteShare

MajorGeeks.com

OldVersion.com

ProgrammableWeb

Website Grader

Armor Games

K2xl

Kongregate

LikeBetter

Line Rider

Shacknews

All Things Digital

Anything But iPod

Everything USB

GoodCleanTech

iLounge

Phone Scoop

TechMeme

AppScout

Download Squad

eHub

MakeUseOf.com

Mashable

Uncov

Dabble

PrezVid

ScienceHack

Ustream.tv

uLinkx

VideoJug

Bubbl.us

Eyejot

MediaFire

Tags: sites, web 2.0

Images that changed the world?

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:04:21 GMT

clipped by: thekay

Clip Source: pinguy.infogami.com

Images That Changed The World ?

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]

The lynching of young blacks [1930]

Soweto Uprising [1976]

Hazel Bryant [1957]

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]

Phan Thị Kim Phúc [1972]

Kent State [1970]

Tiananmen Square [1989]

Thích Quảng Đức [1963]

Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]

Albert Einstein [1951]

Nagasaki [1945]

Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]

Dead on the Beach [1943]

Buchenwald [1945]

Anne Frank [1941]

V-J Day, Times Square, [1945]

Casualties of war [1991]

The Falling Man [2001]

U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]

Migrant Mother [1936]

Omayra Sánchez [1985]

A vulture watches a starving child [1993]

Biafra [1969]

Misery in Darfur [2004]

Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995]

How Life Begins [1965]

First Flight [1903]

Earthrise [1968]

Tags: photos, news

Africa is big. Really big.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:30:53 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.doobybrain.com

The African continent is apparently big enough to fit the United States, India, Argentina, Western Europe, and most of China in it’s space! In fact, all together, these 5 countries still do not make up the total square kilometers of Africa.

Repetition Makes False Beliefs Permanent

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:24:18 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Politicians and other unscrupulous types have long exploited what psychological studies are now confirming: due to the neurophysiology of the learning process, simple repetitive association between two concepts is enough to make false propositions "feel" true and well-supported.

Worse, after enough exposure to such associations, subsequent denials can strengthen the perception of the falsehood instead of weakening it. (This is a major reason why the stigma of a false accusation can persist even after innocence is proven.)

Indeed, repetition seems to be a key culprit. Things that are repeated often become more accessible in memory, and one of the brain's subconscious rules of thumb is that easily recalled things are true.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach

Contrary to the conventional notion that people absorb information in a deliberate manner, the studies show that the brain uses subconscious "rules of thumb" that can bias it into thinking that false information is true. Clever manipulators can take advantage of this tendency.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The experiments do not show that denials are completely useless; if that were true, everyone would believe the myths. But the mind's bias does affect many people, especially those who want to believe the myth for their own reasons, or those who are only peripherally interested and are less likely to invest the time and effort needed to firmly grasp the facts.

The research also highlights the disturbing reality that once an idea has been implanted in people's minds, it can be difficult to dislodge. Denials inherently require repeating the bad information, which may be one reason they can paradoxically reinforce it.

Tags: politics, psychology, bias, manipulation, urban legends, beliefs, brain, cognitive science, myths, learning

Life Beyond Google: Eight Great Alternative Search Engines

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:24:22 GMT

clipped by: anpl32

Clip Source: webworkerdaily.com

Everyzing is one of my favorite sites for searching for audio- and video-based information found on the web. It actually indexes the words spoken in podcasts and videocasts, and then it displays excerpts as text

SearchEngineColossus is great for doing targeted searches in any language using the actual engine that locals use.

Answers.com. Answers.com lets you type in a question and then sifts through your search results to find the answer to your question.

SearchGov is a great way to search for government institutions and offices, and divisions within them.

If you remember a string of text from a book, you can often find it in context at SearcheBooks.

IncyWincy crawls the Invisible Web. It’s especially good at executing searches within targeted search engines on the web and letting you know exactly which rock it’s finding promising results under

FindArticles. The site houses over 10 million articles

Tags: web search, search engines

The language you speak affects your personality

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:07:21 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: A study of bilingual women suggests that when you switch from speaking one language to another, your personality and your perceptions change as well. I've experienced this myself switching between German and English.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Switching languages can also switch personality: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.

Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A. Peracchio from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied groups of Hispanic women, all of whom were bilingual, but with varying degrees of cultural identification.

"Language can be a cue that activates different culture-specific frames," the researchers said in a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

The researchers said the women classified themselves as more assertive when they spoke Spanish than when they spoke English.

"In the Spanish-language sessions, informants perceived females as more self-sufficient and extroverted," they said.

Tags: language, psychology, news, science, gender, via:twitter

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:07 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: listverse.com

Language is perhaps the most important function of the human body - it allows us to get sustenance as a child, it allows us to get virtually anything we want as an adult, and it allows us many hours of entertainment through literature, radio, music, and films. This list (in order of least to most spoken) summarizes the most important languages in use today.

French

Malay-Indonesian

Portuguese

Bengali

Arabic

Russian

Spanish

Hindustani

English

Mandarin

Tags: language, world

Who Will Cry For Innocent Iraqis?

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:40:45 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Half of Iraq's population are children. Children! Who can condone dropping bombs on babies and tormenting children, no matter how "noble" they may think the cause? Who can know of Iraq's suffering and still proudly wave the flag, droning off hollow words of security, democracy and freedom? How can anyone, anyone keep supporting this terrible murderous war? How??

Clip Source: www.fpif.org

Half of Iraq's population of 27 million are children. UNICEF data show that nearly one-fifth of Iraqis are children under the age of five. These children are the most vulnerable members of Iraqi society. Twenty five percent of Iraqi children are malnourished and one in ten is acutely malnourished.

A USA Today report indicates that 70 percent of Iraqi children suffer from symptoms of traumatic stress syndrome manifested in psychiatric and psychological symptoms. These children daily witness death and destruction in their neighborhood.

Caught in the middle of a multi-sided war, these children are being killed daily as collateral damage

children -- not soldiers, not terrorists, and not insurgents.

Iraqi children scrounging in the garbage for food or going into prostitution to survive.

It's time for that to stop.

start seeing the war through Iraqi eyes as well.

start shedding tears for Iraqis and work together to protect the children and put an end to this senseless war.

Tags: iraq, war, children, genocide, and for what? oil? security? nationalism? shame!

USA poverty map

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:54:21 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Useful graphic from censusscope.org

Clip Source: www.censusscope.org

Nationally, 12.4 percent of residents are considered to be in poverty. �In Poverty� means that a given person falls below the poverty threshold assigned by the U.S. Census Bureau. Please see our chart topic on Poverty for a discussion of poverty thresholds.

Examination of the map shows, however, that this 12.4 percent is a misleading representation of poverty status across the United States. Poverty is considerably more prevalent in the southern states. In a clear majority of counties in the South, the proportion of persons in poverty is higher than the national rate.

Tags: poverty

Bush's America: LESS Safe, LESS Free.

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:43:34 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: In a new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11.

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11

"While the 'preventive paradigm' can point to few gains in our security, it has come at great cost to our ideals. In the name of preemptive security, the administration has undertaken torture, indefinite detention without trial, extraordinary renditions, disappearances into CIA 'black sites,' warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, and an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq."

have compromised the most basic commitments of the rule of law

have actually impeded our efforts to bring known terrorists to trial, limited our long-term options for security, sparked anti-American resentment and terrorist recruitment, and undermined relations even with our closest allies

has garnered few terrorists and actually made us less safe

treat the rule of law as an asset

Tags: usa, terrorism, war

Muslims don't hate the USA

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:25:23 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: More worried that Americans hate them

Clip Source: www.eatbees.com

The Muslims I know are more resigned than angry. Many are convinced that the West is making war on Islam, but after decades of American support for dictators in their part of the world, and centuries of having their religion misunderstood, they don’t expect much.

Far from hating America, my friends are more likely to worry that Americans hate them. They see how Muslims are portrayed in our media. We see angry men burning flags, raising rifles in the air, throwing rocks and blowing things up. In Morocco they refute this with warmth and candor, and exaggerated shows of hospitality.

Yet they worry about us. Is America really a democracy? Are we morally lazy? How we can accept what has been done in our name? They wonder how could we have invaded a nation that was no threat to us. Why haven’t we challenged our leaders? Are we really that spoiled? Are we so concerned with our own comfort, that we tune out what is happening just because it is far away?

Tags: islam, muslims, war on terror

World Prison Population per 100,000 population

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:40:20 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: great, clear graphic

Clip Source: www.libertyforlife.com

Royalty free, public doman, thousands of photos...

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:24:10 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: you can use them for any purpose you want, including publishing them, selling them...just the point!

Clip Source: pdphoto.org

I have thousands of free pictures here. Please use and enjoy them. To view the photos: Click on a category below, or use the search interface for keywords. If you want to use these images: Go ahead.

ublic Domain
- Travel(1)
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- - Big Sur(26)
- - Bodie(14)
- - California(4)
- - Canada(14)
- - Death Valley(55)
- - Idaho(5)
- - Ireland(229)
- - Los Angeles(61)
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- - Montana(44)
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- - OC(27)
- - Phoenix(16)
- - San Francisco(32)
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- - Tourist(81)
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- - Wisconsin(14)
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- Photography
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If you want to use these images: Go ahead

you can use them for any purpose you want, including publishing them, selling them,

Tags: free domain, photos, royalty free, pictures, free to use, free of cost.

Warren Buffett: Income tax rigged to benefit rich

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:48:05 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Billionaires pay tax at lower rates than their secretaries do

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The very rich in America pay taxes at a lower rate than most working people, and, due to a wrinkle in the tax code, private-equity partners enjoy some of the lowest tax rates of all. At a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett, no stranger to wealth, told an audience filled with bankers and real-estate developers the system was, in effect, rigged. "This is what Congress in its wisdom did: the 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter." Buffett (who is a director of NEWSWEEK's parent, The Washington Post Company) offered a million dollars to any fellow magnate who could prove he had higher tax rates than his secretary.

Tags: warren buffett, income, taxes, wealth, equities

Looking At America

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:16:53 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.

Out of panic and ideology, President Bush squandered America’s position of moral and political leadership, swept aside international institutions and treaties, sullied America’s global image, and trampled on the constitutional pillars that have supported our democracy through the most terrifying and challenging times. These policies have fed the world’s anger and alienation and have not made any of us safer.

Tags: lets, change, it