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Who thinks this is a good reason to remove an account?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:45:47 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: Let me guess....

If you want to participate on this site, show some respect for it and the people who created and manage it. We work awfully hard to make this site what it is. You have every right to dislike it, criticize it and leave it. But how dare you constantly refer to it as Clipmarx. If i see it again i'm removing your account.

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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Please, Let's Talk About Sex!

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:24:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Let’s start there. Talk to your kids about sex tonight, with confidence and a straight face. “I’d prefer you waited to have sex. That said, whenever you choose to do it, make sure you use one of these condoms.” It works."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin has a pregnant teenager. And, she’s not alone. According to a report published in 2007, there are more than 400,000 other American girls in the same predicament.

If there is a shame here, it’s a national shame — a failure of our puritanical society to accept and deal with the facts. Teenagers have sex. How often and how safely depends on how much knowledge and support they have. Crossing our fingers that they won’t cross the line is not an intelligent strategy.

To wit, our ridiculous experiment in abstinence-only education seems to be winding down with a study finding that it didn’t work. States are opting out of it. Parents don’t like it either.

We need to take some bold steps beyond the borders of our moralizing and discomfort and create a sex education infrastructure that actually acknowledges reality and protects our children from unwanted pregnancies, or worse.

Vanishing Barns

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:39:48 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Competition for land — to rent or buy — has grown cutthroat and overwhelming, a matter of networking and schmoozing (at church, at the local coffee shop, while selling seed) worthy of the corporate boardroom. (Some here tell of people who call the widows of farmers who have died days or hours earlier, hoping to secure land.)"

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

IOWA FALLS, Iowa — One by one, the old-fashioned barns that speckle this landscape are vanishing. Some are demolished to make way for new cornfields. Others, weak with years, simply crumple.

“We’re trying to ring that alarm bell,” said Mr. Scott, whom people here have come to call the Barn Guy for his insistence on trying to save some of Iowa’s 50,000 remaining barns, icons that turned up again and again in a guidebook to the state’s landmarks that was produced during the Great Depression and has recently been published online.

But the tale of the disappearing barn, a building whose purpose shifted, then faded away, tells a bigger story too, of how farming itself, a staple in this state then and now, has changed markedly since those writers drove through.

The Muppet Show Cake

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:21:52 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

The Muppet Show Cake

This insanely awesome cake, created by Heather Haynes of Clarksville, IN, was a blue ribbon winner in the "Special Technique Cake" category at the 2007 Kentucky State Fair.

Tags: the muppet show cake, yummy, cakes, artistic, art, sculpture

Mozilla Selects its 7 Best Firefox 3 Extensions

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:03:17 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: mashable.com

From a pool of over 100 entries, just seven were chosen as grand prize winners in a series of three categories: Best New Add-on; Best Updated Add-on; Best Music Add-on. For both the Best New and Best Updated picks they decided on three first-place finishers each.

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Small, Private Islands

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:28:40 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.premier-holidays.com

My Top Ten Favorite 80s Teen Movies

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:11:02 GMT

clipped by: ninja1105

Clip Source: www.dominickevans.com

I was born in 1980. That means I remember from about 1983-1984 onward. This also means that I was impressionable in relation to the music, movies and to a lesser extent, the television series of the decade. That being said, I’m a HUGE fan of anything 80s.

I believe that the 80s were unique. Movies were made to entertain and tell a story. Music was meant to make you dance and perhaps even shock you (Madonna, anyone?) and entertainment wasn’t nearly as censored as it is today. It was a great time for those of us who grew up in the 80s. Not only did we have the best cartoons, we had the best teen movies…ever.

So, sit back, relax, and take a walk down memory lane as we look at my top ten, favorite, 80s movies of all time.

Honorable Mention: Stand by Me

While technically not a teen movie (otherwise, it’d have made our primary list), though close enough, this Stephen King flick made Wil Wheaton nearly every kid’s hero!

Tags: 80s movies, top ten, breakfast club, john hughes, teen, movies, the goonies, the lost boys, war games, porky’s

Water Woes

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:09:10 GMT

clipped by: LoPhatt

Clip Source: blueplanetrun.org

A Startling Reflection On Water

The world faces a massive crisis. About one out of six of our fellow human beings on Earth does not have daily, immediate access to the most basic of necessities: safe drinking water. Think about this for a moment.

Imagine if, instead of just going to a tap in your kitchen, or to a water cooler, anytime you were thirsty, you had to hoist a heavy vessel onto your head and walk, up to two hours, to a well, where, after filling your vessel—now really heavy—you had to carry it up to two more hours back home. After your trek, how much more time and energy would you hope to have to farm, cook, take care of your family, especially the sick ones; clean, work to make money outside the home or go to school to get ahead?

The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is six kilometers.
People with waterborne illnesses occupy half of the world’s hospital beds.
2.2 million die each year... More Facts>>

Defending honor killings

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:18 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

A 17-year-old Pakistani girl forced to marry a 45-year-old when she was only nine was reportedly killed by her parents, according to the Weekend Australian.

The murder has intensified despair among human rights workers in Pakistan over a recent spate of "honor killings," in which two women and three teenage school girls were buried alive in Baluchistan Province because they wanted to marry the men of their choice.

Saira Nusrat Bibi was successfully fighting a legal battle to have her marriage annulled. As she left court in the Punjabi city of Sahiwal, she was surrounded by a group of men reportedly sent by her parents, and shot in front of police, The Australian reported.

The Baluchistan case was worsened by an attempt by a member of the country's national parliament, Senator Israr Ullah Zehri, to defend it, telling colleagues that "these are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them,” The Australian reports.

Father dies to save son:-(

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:00:05 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

Father dies saving son from crashing wood

A man died when he shoved his son out of the way from a cascade of particleboards at a wood shop Phoenix Friday morning.

About five workers were in Carlton Custom Wood Works moving the particleboards at about 8:30 a.m., said Capt. Courtney Jenkins, public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department.

The 46-year-old father noticed boards shifting above his 19-year-old son. The boards began to fall. The father pushed the son out of the way, but the man's skull was crushed in the impact.

Jenkins estimated 12 to 15 boards weighing between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds fell on the man.

Jenkins said the son was sitting with his father's head in his lap when crews arrived, but the man died on the scene.

"Walking to the Moon" - A woman wakes from a coma

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:31:04 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where? "

Clip Source: www.penguin.com.au

Clip Source: www.mindhacks.com

ABC Radio National's All in the Mind recently broadcast a gripping programme on patients in the coma-like persistent vegetative state (PVS) and how new brain imaging techniques might be able to identify people who are conscious but unable to communicate with the outside world.

Clip Source: www.penguin.com.au

A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where?

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A woman thought to be in a persistent vegetative state, unresponsive and unconscious to herself and the world, is asked to play a game of 'mental' tennis. Extraordinarily, brain scans reveal she can. In Australia, new ethical guidelines govern the care of people in this devastating situation. Besides new technologies and terminologies -- what prospects for those living frozen lives?

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2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:03:09 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: For those ,like me,who prefered some older versions of programs.Connections are tough though.You need to wait till late at night.

Clip Source: www.oldapps.com

Now Providing 2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

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Musim father burns Christian daughter alive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: what can you say?

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive

Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'

A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, another dead girl

Rush - Here Again

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:12:40 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: My God I love this whole album!
Someone Please Pop this. But make sure you listen to it first.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Rush - Here Again

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