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Gratuitous Insults

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:57:39 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Any ideas on how we can help such folk?

I have been asking a series of questions about self-sabotaging behaviors. The vast majority of the replies have been constructive and incredibly helpful. But there is one type of reply that is truly self-sabotaging and gives me pause – it involves a gratuitous insult of some kind. When I try to point out that the insult is counter to their interests the person tends to respond with more insults. In a recent exchange, when I asked for clarification of a response I received “If you don’t understand what I mean, then that is probably your problem.” When I pointed out that I found his reply mildly insulting I received “you think you know me enough to think that I am insulting you, which I am not” – as if to say “you don’t get to decide when you feel insulted, I do”.

research indicates that most of these people are white, males in their late thirties to early fifties and consultants in either a one man or small operations

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Shaking things up on Clipmarks.com

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:57 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Please read the entire post by clicking the source link before reacting.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Unfortunately, we have recently become increasingly concerned that the site has become overly antagonistic and inappropriately controlled by a disproportionately loud group of users. In all honesty, we no longer feel that the processes of our site are producing a unique, high quality blend of content. Instead, the magical blending of diverse topics on the Clipmarks home page has seemed to dissolve into a battleground for extremely hostile politically oriented users who are overwhelming the rest of the site. Because of this we are working on making some fundamental changes to the way the Clipmarks site works. We will do our best to make changes that improve the site and will continue to iterate until we are comfortable that it is just right.

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Poster Forge (Free Version)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:21 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: Tons of fun to play with.Check out my new profile picture.

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Poster Forge (Free Version)

Poster Forge enables you to create stylish wall posters from your photos. You can choose from motivational poster, movie poster or `Wanted` poster styles, and customize them with your own text, headlines and other details. The resulting poster image can be saved to image file or printed with the built-in poster print utility, that enables you to slice and print the poster across multiple pages, and then assemble it to the specified size (e.g full movie poster size). The free version is limited to personal usage and adds a small `Powered by Poster Forge` watermark to each poster.

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"The Road Goes On Forever and the party never ends.." beautiful "path" picture

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:32:00 GMT

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Welcome to the new corrupt South Africa

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:00:41 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: Oh, and add to that our future president, Jacob Zuma, who is still facing bribery and corruption charges and was found not guilty of raping an AIDS-infected lesbian. (he assured all South Africans that he was in no danger of contracting HIV because he had immediately afterwards taken a shower)

Life in South Africa is about as surreal as it gets.

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Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
373 in total or approximately 70%
Can you guess which organization this is?
Give up yet?
its the 535 members of the SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT -
(The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line!)

Your Friday awwwww

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:33:02 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: Seems like clipmarks needs to lighten up a little.
No slur intended Mr. Goldstein.

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Here was Chip as I found him: curled up, cold, appearing to be dead, in the middle of a trail in the Olympics.

Over the next hour, as I held him in my hand, he warmed up and started to move. Here he is nestled in my fleece hat. He’s just a few weeks old ... eyes still closed, very immature.

What to do with a chipmunk on a 15 mile hike? Especially a chipmunk that, now warmed up, is hungry and trying to nurse.

I smashed up some nuts and dried fruit from my trail mix, mixed it with water, and fed it to the eager baby with a syringe from my first aid kit.

Needing my hands free for the hike, I found the perfect spot for Chip ... I emptied the water from my Nalgene bottle, put the fleece hat in the bottom to make a nice bed, and snuggled him inside. He had a good view of the rest of the hike, though it was a bit tinted ...

Back home, he gets his first real meal of chipmunk-appropriate formula.

In less than a week, his eyes are open!

As the days go by, he gets more and more mature.

Tags: awwwww

Ancient Chinese Bells

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:32:15 GMT

clipped by: Rustee
clipper's remarks:

The importance of that discovery grows when we realize that it took the West a thousand years to develop the cathedral bell, and we didn't have it until the middle ages. Bells are very hard to make, yet China had these remarkably sophisticated Zhong bells during the Golden Age of Athens. The bells produce a rich tone, they take far less bronze to get it than a cathedral bell, and then they deliver two sounds for the cost of one.

It's easy to look right at something that's very sophisticated without seeing the sophistication. It took us eighty years to catch on to these remarkable, but unassuming, bells. The best inventions are like that. In the best inventions, elegance masquerades as simplicity.

Clip Source: www.uh.edu

Just after the turn of this century, archaeologists started finding curious sets of bronze bells in tombs throughout China. They range from 2000 to 3600 years old, and they have an odd shape.

They're called Zhong bells. Thousands of these bells had been unearthed by the late 1970s, and their strange secret still hadn't yet come to light.

The secret was actually seen and missed in 1957 when the National Music Research Institute in China played a set of these bells in concert.

The E-bell was missing in one octave. But then a player found he could get that sound by striking the C-bell on its side.

But twenty years later, Chinese musicologists, examining a set of these bells, discovered that every bell in the set had the same property -- it had two tones, either a third or a minor third apart. Then they found that many of these bells even had marks on the side to show players where to strike the bells to get the two tones. Each bell was, in fact, meant to be two bells in one.

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Cinnamon tabby tiger

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:44:18 GMT

clipped by: milmufmas

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Color In Nature: Funghi

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:13:58 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

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Mushrooms have been inspiring the cuisines of many cultures for centuries, but little did i know, they were once a commonly used textile dye because of the vast range of colors you can achieve using mushrooms. The colors of mushrooms are deep and rich adding a fascinating and unexpected touch to the surrounding palette of colors in which they grow.

Socotra Island

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:10:47 GMT

clipped by: milmufmas

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geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 endemic species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are found nowhere else on Earth

The climate is harsh, hot and dry, and yet - the most amazing plant life thrives there. Situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen, the wide sandy beaches rise to limestone plateaus full of caves (some 7 kilometers in length) and mountains up to 1525 meters high.

The name Socotra is derived from a Sanscrit name, meaning "The Island of Bliss"... Is it the beaches? The isolation and quiet? or the strange and crazy botanical allure?

40,000 inhabitants, the Yemeni govenment put in the first roads just 2 years ago - after negotiations with UNESCO, which has declared this island a World Natural Heritage Site

140 different species of birds; 10 of which are not found anywhere else in the world

socotra

expensive and truly unique devices

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:27:59 GMT

clipped by: milmufmas

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Triton 1000 Luxury Submersible - $1,690,000

The Flying 19XRW Hoverwing Hovercraft - $5,200

Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana’s Rocket-Belts - $250,000

The Hovering “Lounger” Lounge Chair by HoverIT - $13,366

Luvaglio’s First Luxury Notebook - $1,000,000

Panasonic 103 inch PDP Widescreen - $70,000

DI Vapor’s Cosmo TV Luxury Tub - $7,000

Sooloos Sound System - $12,000

The Dry Water Massager - $29,500

The Ferguson Hill Horn Speaker System w/ Subwoofer - $1,065

Power-Assisted Suitcase - $1,365

1 Teraflop SuperComputer for the Rich and Famous - $27,220

Icon A5 Personal Aircraft - $139,000

Solo Solar Table - $14,000

Terra Wind Amphibious RV - $850,000

The Infinite Wisdom Grande Speaker System - $70,000

Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:44 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: The Pope, leading the way of torture, and the history of Christianity. Will people ever get a clue?

Clip Source: www.jesusneverexisted.com

Torture Chambers

' For 1500 hundred years, the Christian Church systematically operated torture chambers throughout Europe. Torture was the rule, not the exception. Next to the Bible, the most influential and venerated book in Christian history was the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), which was a step-by-step tutorial in how to torture "witches' and "sorcerers".

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

--Pope Alexander IV (1254-61)
(Directory for the Inquisitors p. 135)

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Tags: bible, christianity, faith, god, moral values, religion, superstition, theology, torture

Art Nouveau

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:39:55 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.nga.gov

A critic at the beginning of the nineteenth century complained about the term art nouveau, pointing out that every style was "nouveau" (new) in the beginning. But in fact it was art nouveau's newness

or more exactly its modernity

that defined it

the whiplash curve and fin-de-siècle decadence

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Select from the list below to hear excerpts from the Art Nouveau audio tour.

Introduction to Art Nouveau by Earl A. Powell III, Director, National Gallery of Art
full view and text
play audio segment

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René Lalique
Dragonfly woman
corsage ornament
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Émile Gallé
Dragonfly coupe
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Tiffany Studios
Wisteria table lamp
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William H. Bradley
Thanksgiving No. from The Chap-Book
full view and text
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Tiffany Studios
Jack-in-the-pulpit vase
full view and text
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Otto Eckmann
Five Swans
full view and text
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Find and share logins for websites that force you to register

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:14:54 GMT

clipped by: desmond54

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Fascinating Feline Facts

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:32:00 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: I didn't even make it half way down the list and I learned the answer to a lot of the questions i've always wondered about cats. FYI, there are many many many more at the source. ENJOY!

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Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.

Cats are sometimes born with extra toes. This is called polydactly. These toes will not harm the cat, but you should keep his claws trimmed just like any toe.

Newborn kittens have closed ear canals that don't begin to open for nine days.When the eyes open, they are always blue at first. They change color over a period of months to the final eye color.

Most cats have no eyelashes.

A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

You can tell a cat's mood by looking into its eyes. A frightened or excited cat will have large, round pupils. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. The pupil size is related as much to the cat's emotions as to the degree of light.

It is a common belief that cats are color blind. However, recent studies have shown that cats can see blue, green and red.

A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.

A cat can jump even seven times as high as it is tall.

Cats lack a true collarbone. Because of this lack, cats can generally squeeze their bodies through any space they can get their heads through. You may have seen a cat testing the size of an opening by careful measurement with the head.

Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.

Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.

Cats can't taste sweets.

Cats must have fat in their diet because they can't produce it on their own.

Some common houseplants poisonous to cats include: English Ivy, iris, mistletoe, philodendron, and yew.

If a male cat is both orange and black it is ( besides being extremely rare ) sterile. To have both the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all or part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome combination will render the male cat sterile.

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Clipmarks | michellezm's clips

Gratuitous Insults

Shaking things up on Clipmarks.com

Poster Forge (Free Version)

Poster Forge (Free Version)

"The Road Goes On Forever and the party never ends.." beautiful "path" picture

Welcome to the new corrupt South Africa

Your Friday awwwww

Ancient Chinese Bells

Cinnamon tabby tiger

Color In Nature: Funghi

Socotra Island

expensive and truly unique devices

Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

Iron Spider: The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Art Nouveau

Find and share logins for websites that force you to register

Disposable Email Addresses

Share Coupon Codes

Most Popular

Fascinating Feline Facts

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.