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10 Jobs You Didn’t Hear About On Career Day

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:56:17 GMT

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1. Filibuster

2. Lungs

3.Sin-Eater

4. Knocker-Up

5. Ratoner

6. Alnager

7. Badger

8. Gong Farmer

9. Fuller

10. Bullocky

8 Octopus Facts

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:34:44 GMT

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1. All varieties of octopus are venomous.

2. A female octopus, known as a hen, may lay 100 thousand eggs…

3. An octopus’ “ink” serves three important purposes.

First, the initial “jet” of ink visually distracts, confuses, and perhaps even frightens the predator. Secondly, it may interfere with the predator’s sense of smell or sight. And third, once dispersed, the ink clouds the water to help give the octopus time to escape.

4. An octopus’ suckers are arranged in two rows down each arm

5. One arm of a male octopus is, well, special.

The third right arm, to be exact.

6. An octopus sees the same thing upside down as right-side up.

7. Octopi don’t like the spotlight.

8. An octopus may also eat its own.

The 5 Crappiest and Greatest Halloween Treats

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:40:33 GMT

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5) Suckers

4) Candy Corn

3) Pennies

2) Apples

1) Toothbrush

Now's A Great Time To Launch A Startup

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:47:15 GMT

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We may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies -- when Microsoft and Apple were founded.

Microsoft's first product was a Basic interpreter for the Altair. That was exactly what the world needed in 1975, but if Gates and Allen had decided to wait a few years, it would have been too late. If you have a specific idea you want to act on, act now.

That doesn't mean you can ignore the economy. Make things that save money.

Investors are more of a problem. But that's nothing new: startups always have to adapt to the whims of investors.

Another advantage of bad times is that there's less competition.

Nine Signs Your Boss Is About To Lay You Off

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:44:58 GMT

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Your boss used to be friendly and pay attention to you. Now she avoids you.

She chats breezily with your colleagues but blows you off.

She takes FOREVER to return emails when she used to do it within the hour.

She plays "hard to get." For example, you send her a meeting request and she she doesn't attend, even though she's free.

There's a meeting that you should have been invited to. You weren't.

You're repeatedly overlooked for high-profile assignments that you feel capable of handling.

She gives you production-oriented tasks instead of strategic projects.

Suddenly your work gets reassigned.

You're left off of email announcements congratulating teams on projects, when you also participated on those teams.

How to win a fight against twenty children

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:19:42 GMT

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Use an appropriate technique.

Your best bet is to stay on your feet and use striking techniques. Karate is one good choice - it was originally designed in the 1600’s for use by unarmed Japanese day care workers.

Be aware of the terrain.

The ideal situation is fighting children who are trapped in a ditch below you.

Stay mobile.

You must avoid becoming surrounded at all costs. Keep moving, and always trying to position the bulk of children on one side of you.

Speed.

You want this fight to be over fast. Children have boundless amounts of energy, and you’ll tire quickly as the fight progresses.

Intimidation.

When taunting, remember that children are almost comically stupid, and won’t understand any of your more creative taunts.

Go for the leader first.

I’d recommend lifting his body over your head and screaming yourself hoarse. That’s the smart veteran move.

Groin attacks.

Weapons.

By bringing a weapon you might prompt the children to bring weapons as well.

Let the last one walk away.

6 Reasons Today’s Olympic Swimmers are Breaking so many World Records

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:52:14 GMT

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1. Tech Doping

The suit has “ultrasonically welded” seams that mimics a shark skin

2. The Pool Depth Matters

The pool in Beijing, known as the “Water Cube,” is 3 meters deep, instead of the previous depth of 2 meters. This allows swimmers to dive deeper

3. Empty Pool Lanes

This reduces turbulence and enables swimmers to go faster.

4. More Time to Practice

Back then, the Olympics only allowed amateur athletes to compete. Phelps, on the other hand, is now 23 has an estimated annual earnings of $5 million

5. Old-fashioned Doping

6. The Secret Benefits of Math

Professor Timothy Wei, of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., helped develop top-secret, state-of-the-art equipment and mathematical techniques that USA Swimming coaches have been using to help to make swimmers go faster.

Sushi Cake

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:49:04 GMT

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a wedding cake made with avocado, edamame, wasabi, raw salmon, tuna and roe. Topped with wasabi icing and drizzled in soy sauce, it still sounds…kind of unappetizing.

Tags: food

World's Smallest Snake Discovered

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:47:42 GMT

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Hedge's has announced the discovery of the world's smallest snake, Leptotyphlops carlae, which grows to only four inches long.

Commonly known as the Barbados Thread Snake

The snake is blind and lays a single, skinny egg which takes up the majority of the mother's body.

The babies are born to half the size of the adult and are as thin as spaghetti.

The Barbados Thread Snake is perfectly suited for hiding in human hair and entering human orifices while you sleep.

Tags: animals

Sex Crazed Oysters Transmit Herpes

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:42:21 GMT

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the French were horrified to learn last week that their care-free raw oystering lifestyle had finally hit the rocks. 40 to 100 percent of oysters aged 12 to 18 months have died this summer in all but one of the regions breeding beds.

Basically the randy little guys have been devoting so much time and energy to growing their sexual organs, they ignored their immune systems.

the young oysters found themselves with a scorching case of Oyster Herpesvirus type 1, or OsHV-1. Unfortunately for the oysters, this strain is fatal, rather than just uncomfortable and embarrassing.

Tags: animals

DHS Can Now Seize and Destroy Your iPod For No Reason

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:16:46 GMT

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Travellers to the U.S. could have their laptops and other electronic devices seized at the airport under new anti-terror measures.

They do not even need grounds to suspect wrongdoing.

The extent of the new powers, which have been secretly in place for some time, was revealed yesterday in the Washington Post.

They cover hard drives, flash drives, mobile phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes, as well as books, pamphlets and other written materials, the report said.

Copies of data must be destroyed when a review is completed and no probable cause exists to keep the information.

DHS officials insisted the policies were reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism.

Tags: homeland security

Flesh-Eating Slug Invades Wales

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:51:44 GMT

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the Ghost Slug is carnivorous, killing earthworms at night with powerful, blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti.

It spends most of its time underground, squeezing its flexible body into cracks or tunnels to get at earthworms, which it detects by smell or taste."

Scientists recently discovered a new species of slug on the Welsh countryside, one that has a taste for flesh!

Scientists are speculating that the unknown slugs may be native to deep caves in the Caucuses, presumably because that would make them even creepier.

They have teeth....TEETH!

Tags: animals

Leopards vs. Crocodiles

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:45:30 GMT

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leopards can kill crocodiles when they want to. The leopard tackled the crocodile in the water, pulled it on to land, and eventually succeeded in killing it.

Tags: animals

Drug Use Statistics

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:09:50 GMT

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Between 1979 and 2006, the total number of illicit drug users almost doubled.

Correspondingly, the percentage of users (as a percent of total population) rose over 14%. So, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, almost 50% of the US population has used illicit drugs at some point in their lives.

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The 8 PG-Rated Movies That Should Not Have Been Rated PG

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:09:01 GMT

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8) Gremlins (1984)

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7) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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6) Beetlejuice (1988)

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5) Mommie Dearest (1981)

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4) Jaws (1975)

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3) Wizards (1977)

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2) Watership Down (1978)

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1) Poltergeist (1982)

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