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25 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:13 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.webupon.com

This eclectic list of websites contains so many out of the ordinary pleasures that it is hard to know where to start.

How to clean your home in 19 minutes

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:39:00 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

(RealSimple.com) -- With these room-by-room checklists, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day, giving you more time for family, friends and you.

Kitchen, 4 ½ minutes daily

Always start with the sink

• Wipe down the sink after doing the dishes or loading the dishwasher (30 seconds).
• Wipe down the stove top (one minute).
• Wipe down the counters (one minute).
• Sweep, Swiffer, or vacuum the floor (two minutes).

Bathroom, 2 minutes daily

• Wipe out the sink (30 seconds). Wipe the toilet seat and rim (15 seconds).
• Swoosh the toilet bowl with a brush (15 seconds).
• Wipe the mirror and faucet (15 seconds).
• Squeegee the shower door (30 seconds).
• Spray the entire shower and the curtain liner with shower mist after every use (15 seconds).

Bedroom, 6 ½ minutes daily

• Make the bed (two minutes).
• Fold or hang clothing and put away jewelry (four minutes).
• Straighten out the night-table surface (30 seconds).

Family room, living room, foyer, 6 minutes daily

Tags: housing

Guardian's guide to the best music you can find - for free - on the internet

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:43:02 GMT

clipped by: philos
clipper's remarks: Chris Salmon offers a guide to the best music you can find - for free - on the internet

Clip Source: music.guardian.co.uk

Johnny without the cash

Best for covers: Cover Freak
coverfreak.com

Best for tomorrow's big names: iTunes Store
apple.com/itunes

Best for old gramophone records: Turtle's 78rpm Jukebox
turtleservices.com/jukebox.htm

Best for discarded vinyl: Vinyl Orphanage
vinylorphanage.com

Best for Swedish music: Swedesplease
swedesplease.net

Best for mash-ups: Get Your Bootleg On
getyourbootlegon.com

Best for B-sides: The "B" side
redkelly.blogspot.com

Best for electro/techno: ill-ec-tro-nic
ill-ec-tro-nic.blogspot.com/

Best for unsigned acts: Amie Street
amiestreet.com

Best for 60s garage: Garage Hangover
garagehangover.com

Best for new sounds: Pitchfork Media
pitchforkmedia.com

Best for remixes: Discobelle discobelle.net

Best for vintage soul: Get On Down With the Stepfather of Soul
stepfatherofsoul.blogspot.com

Best for world music: Fat Planet
fatplanet.com.au/blog/category/mp3s

Best for hip-hop: Cocaine Blunts
cocaineblunts.com

Best for jazz: All About Jazz
allaboutjazz.com

30 More Excellent Blog Designs

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:11:52 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

Simplicity and Whitespace

Andreas Pihlström

Theocacao

Elitist Snob

Fiveruns — so simple yet so beautiful.

Blabolnik

TNTPixel

Rob Goodlatte

Gerrit van Aaken

Jared Christensen

PSDtuts

Verbalized — sometimes less is more. Close attention to small details is impressive.

Sam Brown - a truly modest design.

Weblogs Which Don’t Look Like Weblogs

Dan Rubin

The Adventures of Cindy Li

George Huff

grantmx designs - this one melts clever portfolio and blog

Blogsolid

Carsonified

Jrvelasco — quite noisy, but the noise fits to the subject of the weblog.

Simon Reynolds

Jonathan Durán

Nice And Original Blog Designs

Tobias Baeck

Chris Murphy — don’t forget to check the design of the archive section and the footer.

Anthony Casey

split da diz — interesting design: unusual approach for site structure.

Adrian Pintilie — the top section of the site is pretty colorful.

Cult Foo

She Unlimited

Tickerville

Amy Hoy

moddular — the design might look a little bit noisy, but it definitely has its personal style.

Tags: blogs

11 phenomenal images of earth

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:48:43 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: deputy-dog.com

1. sri lankan coast, 26th december 2004

(above) the ocean rapidly retreats 400 metres on the south-western coast of sri lanka, just 5 minutes prior to the arrival of a devastating tsunami.

(above) the swirling waters continue to batter the coast just moments after the main wall of water has hit.

2. an alluvial fan, xinjiang province, china

3. retreating glaciers in the bhutan-himalaya

4. hurricane isabel, 2003

6. greenland’s eastern coast, august 21st, 2003

6. aurora borealis

7. a total solar eclipse from space, 1999

8. egmont national park, new zealand

9. mt. etna eruption, october 2001

10. richat structure, mauritania

Tags: photos

How much food families are eating per week in the world. :)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:38:25 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.geekzone.co.nz

How much and what different families in the world eat per week - the numbers are the cost of the basket in US dollars under each picture

Japan

317.25 $

Italy

260 $

Chad, Africa

1,23 $

Kuwait 221,45 $

North Carolina,

North Carolina,USA

341,98 $

Mexico 189,09 $

China

155,06 $

Poland 151 $

Egypt

68,53 $

Ecuador

31,55 $

California, USA 160 $

Mongolia 40 $

Great Britain 253 $

Bhutan 5 $

Germany on 1st place 500 $ (!!!)

Tags: world, food, statistics

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

Recent Photos Taken from a Trip to Cuba

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:24:58 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: governmentdirt.com

For some reason this worker was banging on this cement truck with a mallet at about 3 in the morning, just randomly banging.

"I am guessing that the worker is trying to unsettle concrete from the flue and shake it down into whatever he is pouring, or his job is to make it seem like work is being done." [thanks Jonathan Rager!]

Flamenco dancers at Meson de Flota, a restaurant that only tourists can afford.

For some strange reason, there are Spanish Bullfighting posters on the wall.

This is a Russian Lada with a more secure lock

Cubans no longer have parts to fix their cars, so they have to create parts from what little they have.

An antique Ford - keep in mind that these parts are, for the most part, original or remanufactured by the Owner.

Roadside Mechanic - well... Middle of the Road Mechanic

The pharmacy has about 6 different products and not very many of each of those. The people have basically no access to medicine.

Cuban propaganda against George Bush

Public Transportation System

Tags: cuba, photos, blog, travel

How Washington Missed 9/11

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:06:38 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.time.com

How Washington Missed 9/11

The CIA Inspector General's report declassified on Monday makes it painfully clear: We missed 9/11 because no one in Washington talks to each other.

It is a story that has been told over and over but bears repeating because it is at the heart of what went wrong in the lead up to that fateful day. In January 2000 a CIA field station in East Asia found out that two known Qaeda terrorists, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were on their way to the United States — and they weren't coming on vacation. But it wouldn't be until August 2001 that CIA headquarters finally would tell the FBI, too late for the agency to track the two down.

During the eighteen months between January 2000 and August 2001 50-60 people at the CIA were aware of al-Hazmi and al-Midhar traveling to the U.S. But no one did anything because the assumption was that someone else had told the FBI. And presumably the FBI was covering the two.

Tags: politics, terrorism, news

How to Get People to Like You

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:23:50 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: A little bit more detailed than the usual "just be yourself", heh.

Clip Source: mysticeye.info

Learn to remember names. A name is very important to someone. If you don’t take the time to learn someone’s name, it indicates that you’re not interested in him or her. When someone remembers your name, it gives you the feeling that you are interesting or important.

Be easy going and natural. When you are stiff, reserved or unresponsive, you unconsciously build up a barrier. But when you are easy going and natural it is easy for people to like you.

Be interesting. Have something to talk about that people find interesting or stimulating. This way people want to be with you.

Don’t have a big ego. If you give the impression that you know it all, that you are superior, you make it hard for people to like you. Be normally humble.

Do some self-study and get rid of negative attitudes. People can consciously or unconsciously pick those up and they might find it irritable to be around you.

Always look for the positive qualities in a person. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Try to build up someone’s ego. Make compliments. Congratulate upon someone’s achievement, or express sympathy when they are in sorrow or if they feel disappointed. The ego is a sacred thing; every human being has the desire to feel important. When you deflate someone’s ego, you are wounding him deep inside.

Give strength to people, support them. Help them to be stronger and they will give you affection.

Whether you like to admit it or not, we want people to like us. If someone tells you that he does not really care if people like him or not, he simply is not being honest. The longing to be liked is one of our deepest desires. We want to be popular, we want people to speak nothing but good of us and we want to have affection of the people around us. It is in our human nature.

Tags: how to, lists, psychology, relationships

the sex position playbook from Men's Health

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:44:41 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.menshealth.com

Smart ways to switch it up in the bedroom

Sex shouldn't resemble Naked Twister. Too much twisting and contorting can leave a woman feeling like a sexless member of Cirque du Soleil. "Unlike men, women can lose an orgasm almost in the midst of having one," says Ian Kerner, Ph.D., author of She Comes First and He Comes Next. The solution? This simple series of positions, designed to help you flow naturally from move to move without ending up like a flesh pretzel.

Missionary

It's tame, but it's a natural starter because of strong eye contact, says Kerner. "But men often ejaculate faster because of the friction." To last longer and keep her happy, switch to a move that maintains clitoral pressure without so much thrusting.

Spider

Sit back and pull her toward you while you both lift your knees. "Physically, it allows her to feel a deeper, more intense, more intimate stimulation than missionary, with less friction," says Candida Royalle, author of How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do.

Tags: sex, magazine

Clipmarks - reducing the pop limit?

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:04:39 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I look forward to hearing the various opinions people have on this issue.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

I’m giving strong consideration to the idea of dropping the Pop Character limit to 1,000 from 2,000. I’d like to explain my reasoning and give everyone a chance to weigh in prior to making a decision. At the end of the day, I need to make the decision that I believe best honors the integrity of what Clipmarks is all about, but I certainly don’t want to do that before hearing what our users have to say.

The reason we created Clipmarks was to give life to those wonderful bits of information that are buried within pages. I’m talking about the bits that literally make your brain come alive with interest, curiosity, bewilderment, passion, anger, hope, etc. They are the bits that you feel compelled to capture, comment on and immediately expose to other people.

Picture the offline act of reading a magazine or newspaper article and coming across something that so strongly grabs your attention that you immediately point it out to whoever is around you. You either blurt it out for others to hear or pass it along to someone, pointing to the specific piece of the page you want them to read. Well, our vision for Clipmarks is to create a global platform for that experience to occur in response to bits of “clipworthy” information people find on the web. Too many times I read a clip on the site and think that there is actually a clip within the clip that would have made a better clip…say that 10 times fast J

In my opinion, once a clip is too long, it’s impact as a unique form a content gets diluted. There is certainly no perfect size clip, but there is a size that, once exceeded, can no longer be considered a “clip”. We’re trying to find that fine line where the essence of a clip is honored, meaning is conveyed and an informed decision can be made by the reader about whether to click through to the source to read more. My gut is telling me that 2,000 characters is still too high.

Tags: clipmarks, internet, pop

Did we cure cancer, but no one cares?

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:38:12 GMT

clipped by: B Rosen
clipper's remarks: While this may not be the miracle drug this article seems to make it out to be, it seems the this is something that deserves a lot more research.

Clip Source: media.www.studentprintz.com

Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

Scientists cured cancer last week.

Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.

Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

Here's the big catch. Pharmaceutical companies probably won't invest in research into DCA because they won't profit from it. It's easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.

Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.

Tags: cancer cure, cancer, science, drug