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I LOVE IT! Free courses online. No Joke

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:10:33 GMT

clipped by: karokan
clipper's remarks: This site is absolutely amazing! It offers free education in any subject from Aerodynamics to Dentistry, from Calculus to History, from Business to Oceanography. All coursework is provided free of charge online. I checked it out and was very surprised by their offering.

Clip Source: www.free-ed.net

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Tags: education, internet, free

clipmarks POP-A-THON: $1 per POP for UNICEF!

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:18:45 GMT

clipped by: JimEspo
clipper's remarks: For every POP this clip gets between now and 10 p.m. Eastern on Halloween 2006, I will give $1 to my nephew's school Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign (up to $200). The POP will cost you nothing, it will cost me a $1. What do you have to lose? Let's help make some internet history by being part of (what I believe is) the first social bookmarking/networking community "POP-A-THON"! Imagine if every clipmarker gave $1 to a charity of choice for every one of their POPs?

Clip Source: www.unicefusa.org

Home

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Together with your school, neighborhood or family, you can design and run your very own fundraising campaign this Halloween.

Getting involved is FUN and easy! Just follow these simple steps:

Learn how UNICEFhelps kids. Create afundraiser.
Collect donations in a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEFbox. Send themoney you've collected to UNICEF. Celebrate!

Tags: clipmarks, pop, humor, technology, halloween, internet, social, bookmarking, networking, un, unicef, trick or treat

UNFORGETTABLE PHOTOS

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:05:58 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: nice collecion....

Clip Source: vinodlive.com

Unforgettable Photos

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

Tags: history, photos

Bullied student tickled pink by schoolmates' T-shirt campaign

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:07:06 GMT

clipped by: TheCatWhisperer
clipper's remarks: This story just made my day. Its kids like these two young men (and those who rallied to the cause) that make me second guess my assumption that kids these days are all little shits.

Good for them!

Clip Source: www.cbc.ca

Two Nova Scotia students are being praised across North America for the unique way they turned the tide against a fellow student bullied for wearing pink.

The victim — a Grade 9 boy at Central Kings Rural High School in the small community of Cambridge — wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school.

Bullies harassed the boy, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up, students said.

They went to a nearby discount store and bought 50 pink shirts, including tank tops, to wear to school the next day.

Then the two went online to e-mail classmates to get them on board with their anti-bullying cause that they dubbed a "sea of pink."

But a tsunami of support poured in the next day.

Not only were dozens of students outfitted with the discount tees, but hundreds of students showed up wearing their own pink clothes, some head-to-toe.

And there's been nary a peep from the bullies since, which Shepherd says just goes to show what a little activism will do.

Tags: pink, bullies, school, harassment, support, activism, heroes in my book

Thank God Someone Stopped this Kid

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:03:13 GMT

clipped by: missbossy

Clip Source: www.wnd.com

Youth suspended over sketch of gun

Officials say drawing by teen 'absolutely considered a threat'

A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they "absolutely" believed could pose a threat.

Tags: stupid, funny

10 year old boy masters 10 languages using CD-Roms

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:31:58 GMT

clipped by: Amergin

Clip Source: www.mirror.co.uk

A boy genius of 10 has stunned teachers by learning to speak 10 languages.

Arpan Sharma taught himself French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Polish, Thai and the difficult Lugandan language of Uganda. He also learned Hindi from his mum and dad.

The gifted primary school pupil from Oldbury, West Mids, studied using CD-roms.

He learned Italian fluently at seven, German at eight, and Spanish when he was nine.

But he admitted: "Learning Swahili was probably one of the biggest challenges I've faced and Mandarin Chinese was hard too."

Deputy Headmaster Richard Lynn, of Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, said: "Arpan is a language genius, a natural when it comes to listening to an exact pronunciation and repeating it perfectly."

Arpan wants to be a surgeon and work in hospitals abroad and speak each country's tongue.

Tags: language genius, modern technology.

The Guide to Great Art on the Internet

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:21:00 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Pretty classy methinks.

Clip Source: www.artcyclopedia.com

The Guide to Great Art on the Internet

Stop, See, and Soar

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Constable's Great Landscapes

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Artcyclopedia's new online forum: ArtConversation

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Internalized racism in black children: a new "doll test"

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:05:49 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: A columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette discusses a short documentary film showing that African American children as young as three identify whiteness as attractive and blackness as ugly. Also discusses several related studies.

Clip Source: www.post-gazette.com

Documentary, studies renew debate about skin color's impact


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Miss Davis, a senior at Urban Academy High School in New York City, also recreates psychologist Kenneth Clark's legendary 1940s "Doll Test" in the film and obtains similar results. Dr. Clark's research was used to challenge school segregation in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education.

In the documentary, Miss Davis gives black preschool children two dolls, identical except for their color. One is black, the other, white.

She asks a little girl to show her the nice doll. The little girl holds up the white doll.

"Can you show me the doll that looks bad?"

The little girl holds up the black doll.

"Why does that look bad?"

"Because it's black," the little girl says.

She asks why the little girl thinks the other doll is the nice doll.

"Because she's white," the child says.

"Can you give me the doll that looks like you?"

The little girl hesitates -- looking back and forth at both dolls, first grabbing the white doll -- then, looking a bit sad, she reluctantly pushes forward the black doll.

Fifteen of the 21 children interviewed said they preferred the white doll.

"I learned how easily we can internalize things," says Miss Davis, who made the documentary in 2005 through the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking after-school program. "Even at 4 or 5 years old, you get the message, you get what society values and what it doesn't."

To view the film -- visit: www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/

It's been shown at more than a dozen film festivals and won nine awards, including the Media That Matters Diversity Award and the SILVERDOCS Audience Award for a Short Documentary.

Tags: race, news, u.s.-news, psychology

Meet a Geep (cross between a sheep & a goat)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:32:01 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

this curious creature is making scientists do a double-take. Meet Lisa the geep... a cross between a goat and a sheep.

She was born after an unscheduled amorous encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, in northern Germany's Ruhr Valley. One of his young billy goats leapt over a fence and had a passionate liaison with a ewe.

The result a month ago was Lisa - resembling a lamb in shape and stature, but with the colouring and agile back legs of a goat.

Her mother seems unfazed by her unusual offspring and has raised her happily so far.

Now Lisa is booked into a specialist animal medical school in Hanover for genetic tests to determine her hybrid status. "These whims of nature are extremely rare," said the school's Professor Karl-Heinz Waldmann.

So far, it's unclear whether the geep will produce the milk of a goat or a sheep - but the farmer thinks it will be drinkable. "We will find out what the milk and cheese tastes like in the autumn," he said.

World's Craziest Hotels

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:24:51 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Skwirly has a more comprehensive list right here, complete with prices and ratings.

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

Ice Hotel (Sweden): 6,000 square feet of ice and snow

Gamirasu Cave Hotel (Turkey): a cave on a volcanic rock

Old Jail Mount (Australia): an actual prision

Poseidon Undersea Resort (Fiji): an underwater hotel

Clip Source: msnbcmedia4.msn.com

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

Capsule Inn (Tokio): capsules instead of rooms

Green Magic Treehouses (India): built in trees 90 feet high

Exploranter (Brazil): a hotel on wheels

Woodlyn Park Motels (NZ): a railcar and a plane

McMenemins Kennedy School Hotel (USA): back to school

Woodpecker Hotel (Sweden): on a park, for a single guest

Tags: hotels, travel, world, weird, crazy, design, fun, list

Welcome to the Clipiversity

Tue, 01 May 2007 22:57:16 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: We were talking recently about how much we learn each day from reading clips on the site. I won't speak for anyone else, but i definitely have learned more from the clips that you all have posted than i did in high school, college and law school combined. Sad, but true.

So, Skiff set out to create a fun podcast that highlights some of the interesting clips we find each day. It also gives us an opportunity to weigh in on them. Now you can sit back and listen to highlights from clipmarks on the clipiversity podcast...and don't worry, there will be no pop quizzes...get it, pop

Clip Source: clipiversity.com

Clipiversity for Monday, April 30th, 2007

Clip Source: clipiversity.com

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The Top 10 of Top 10s

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:21:19 GMT

clipped by: alanocu

Clip Source: konquest.org

The Top 10 of Top 10’s

It’s been an running joke at digg for a while now. Each new Top 10 story would get the inevitable comment of :”Now, we only need a Top 10 of Top 10s and everything would be perfect.” The wait is over: here is that Top 10, in no particular order…

Top 10 Accidental discoveries: Wired ranked Viagra, LSD and X-rays as their 3 best accidental discoveries
Top 10 Free Time-Wasting Sites: Open this link with extreme caution. Enough said.
Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations: I want that Lego Pinball Machine… Some people have WAY too much time in their hands.
Top 10 Wierdest Keyboards: The Virtual Laser Keyboard has been around for a while, but here are some new and/or more obscure ones for you pleasure.
Top 10 Things that are not taught in Design School: A nice post summarising why design school is good, but not enough. Very interesting read.
Top 10 OpenSource Web Designs: Let’s stay in design for a while and take a quick glimpse at the top 10 designs downloaded today on Open Web Design.
Top 10 strangest iPod accessories: In case you need an iBed or an iVibrator…
Top 10 System Administrator Truths: Sound advice such as “Printers suck” and “Backups are crucial”. There are less obvious things too, and not far from the Real Truth
Top 10 Science Pictures of 2005: The BBC runs this selection once a year, and it’s always fun to watch. The descriptions are useful too!
Top 10 Crazy Science Things You Didn’t Know: With a name like this, it’s hard to miss. It has some nice things in it, though such as “You can Hypnotize Chickens “, “Don’t laugh too much, it can kill you ” and “Your hand can have a life of it’s own ” all with basic explainations.

An honorable mention goes to techEblog, who runs regularly some of the wierdest and imaginative top 10s known to man.

Tags: internet

100 words every HS grad should know

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:23:01 GMT

clipped by: l1wulf
clipper's remarks: This continues on the original website--clipped as much as possible while keeping it poppable.

Interesting list. How many do you know?

Clip Source: www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com

100 Words That All High School Graduates — And Their Parents — Should Know

BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage^® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony

Tags: words, language, list, vocabulary

Life Would be Better Lived Backwards!

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:02:59 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Excellent concept. This will put a smile to your face!

Clip Source: www.bestoday.com.au

Life Would Be Better Lived Backwards

You'd start out dead and get it out of the way. Then, wake up in an old peoples home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous and you get ready to start school.

You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a baby, and then.......... you spend the last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters every day, and then, you finish off as an orgasm.

Posted to Funny on May 26, 2007 6:20 PM | Permalink

Tags: funny, life, lifestyle, aging, longevity

That Was Then, This Is Now

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:01:36 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: You will want to read them all

Clip Source: dmiessler.com

That Was Then, This Is Now

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with ADD and given huge doses of Ritalin; becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a learning disability.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Heather. Heather hugs him to comfort him.

1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2007 - Heather is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.

Tags: then, now