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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

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

25 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:13 GMT

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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.

Guerrilla Mail

Chain of Thoughts

Ted

Wiki Travel

Fix It Club

Simple Help

Life Script

Full Books

Study Guides and Strategies

Meta Religion

Bibliomania

World Freedom Atlas

My Fit

How to Clean Anything

Dear Cupid

Help With PCs

Sclipo

Speed Test

Google Translate

Movie Duo

Foodio 54

Big Oven

Beer Advocate

Music Mesh

Live Plasma

Tags: web 2.0

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

Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Useful tips if you're into researching anything. More on site

Clip Source: blog.outer-court.com

Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

Tags: google, research

26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:55:00 GMT

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Clip Source: healthbolt.net

26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

Bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias.

Choice-supportive bias - the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were.

Illusion of control - the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot.

Neglect of probability - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.

Tags: risk, decision making

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

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

the sex position playbook from Men's Health

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:44:41 GMT

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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

How to be politically correct...when referring to the opposite sex

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:19:32 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: notice the difference between "accidentally horizontal" and "horizontally accessible"

Clip Source: img245.imageshack.us

Tags: humour, men, women, politically correct, funny

113 Must Read Blogging Tips

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:35:16 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.newaffiliatediscoveries.com

When I started this months 31 Days to Building a Better Blog and decided to invite readers to submit their own blog tips I’m not sure what I was really expecting - but the results have been fantastic.

I’ve just spent the last two hours surfing through the latest batch of 113 tips (that brings us up to a total of 359 reader tips on the central page) and am quite inspired. I come away from this list with new ideas, new knowledge and with another 20 or so blogs added to my out of control feed reader.

Now grab a cup of your favorite beverage and get reading!

How to install WordPress manually! by Shawn DesRochers

Communicating With People You Haven’t Met by Pearl

Why You Should Get Your Own Domain? by Mun

How To Write 50 Articles Per Week by Tejvan Pettinger

5 Blogging Mistakes I Keep Doing And Haven’t Fixed Yet by Dennis Bjørn Petersen

What Stats Should you be Interested In? by Simon

Be bold when you blog! by Bob Walsh

Tags: blogging, tips

101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:13:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rewardprograms.org

101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs

How can a person limit juicy downloads to 101 freeware and shareware choices? Tough calls, but the tools below are ones that every nerd needs, or at least should ponder. Many freeware choices are open source, and the shareware all offer trial offers.

Topics Covered in this Article

Tags: software, freeware

Clip the web with Clipmarks

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:56:44 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

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Clip the web with Clipmarks

Web site Clipmarks clips text and images from web pages, much like you would in a magazine, through an Internet Explorer plug-in or Firefox/Flock extension. Clipping is simple: you simply click an icon in your browser's toolbar and click on the text and images you wish to clip, paragraphs at a time.

Your clippings are saved onto their site, along with the tags, descriptions and title you give them. You have the option to share and read other user's clippings. Access your clippings on nearly any Internet-connected computer by simply logging into your account. The advantage Clipmarks has other bookmark managers is that you can highlight a certain part of a lengthy document, saving you the hassle of having to scour! — Joe Anderson

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Sean O says:

This is a good "social" clipping service, if a bit cluttered.

For more personal clips (although you can share if you like), look at Google Notebook:
http://www.google.com/notebook

07/25/06 11:20 AM

Old Hag says:

Google Notebook has no adorable "pops".

Clipmarks changed my life last week. Also, neatest interface ever for clipping.

Clipmarks + Kaboodle = complete heaven.

07/25/06 11:24 AM

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Tags: clipmarks, web 2.0

World's Worst Polluted Places 2006

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:43:35 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.blacksmithinstitute.org

World's Worst
Polluted Places 2006

Tags: ecology