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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

Garlic attacks brain cancer

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:19:59 GMT

clipped by: hudgal1

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Garlic can kill cells that cause glioblastoma, a brain cancer that is usually fatal, researchers in South Carolina have found.

Swapan Ray and Narendra Banik, neurosciences professors at the Medical University of South Carolina, said their discovery came during a search for a way to kill the cancer without harming healthy cells, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier reported.

"In the disease, you want to kill the cells, but you want to protect others," Banik told the newspaper. "Our tests were to see how effective the compounds were."

Banik, Ray and post-doctoral fellow Arabinda Das tested several organic compounds on cancerous cells. They included garlic in the test program because of its reputation for having healing powers.

Three organo-sulfur compounds they tested effectively stopped the cancerous cells, Ray said.

"This research highlights the great promise of plant-originated compounds as natural medicine for controlling the malignant growth of human brain tumor cells," Ray said.

Tags: cancer, garlic

A "Second Sphinx" at Giza?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:34 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: omega.wordpress.com

After analyzing the elements of the Ancient Egyptian belief system, Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa comes up with a very unorthodox view that would shake the established Egyptology and most likely, trigger a swarm of fresh debates on the origins of the monuments at Giza. Pointing out the dualist essence of the Ancient Egyptian cosmology, El Shammaa argues the very likely existence of a “Second Sphinx” on the Giza plateau, next to the one we know as The Great Sphinx.

“Whenever we have to deal with the solar cult, we should speak of one lion and one lioness facing each other, posing parallel to each other or sitting in a back-to-back position,” says El Shammaa. He draws our attention to the Egyptian creation myth, where the almighty Atum gives birth to his son Shu and his daughter Tefnut, in the form of a lion and lioness. He also points out that the Dream Stela carved by Thutmosis IV and found between the paws of the giant statue, clearly depicted two sphinxes.

Tags: archaeology, egypt, giza, sphinx

Spider-man suit may soon be a reality

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:02:21 GMT

clipped by: Caleythia
clipper's remarks: And cat burglars the world over rejoice.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A "Spider-man" suit that enables its wearer to scale vertical walls like the comic and movie superhero could one day be a reality, according to a study.

Natural technology used by spiders and geckos could help a human climb the side of a building or hang upside down from a roof, the analysis suggests.

Both spiders and geckos possess tiny "hairs" that allow them to stick to surfaces.

Professor Nicola Pugno, from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, has calculated how sufficient stickiness could be generated in the same way to support an adult human's body weight.

The Turin-based researcher proposes that carbon nanotubes could be used as an artificial alternative to the gecko's hairs.

Firstly, and most obviously, it must be able to demonstrate strong adhesive properties. Secondly, the suit must be able to detach easily from a surface after it has stuck. Thirdly, the suit must, to some degree, be able to clean itself.

Tags: technology

the most famous waterfalls on earth

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:50:42 GMT

clipped by: mvonallmen

Clip Source: www.bored-todeath.com

NIAGARA FALLS

ANGEL FALLS

VICTORIA FALLS

NIAGARA FALLS

ANGEL FALLS

VICTORIA FALLS

IGUACU FALLS

Gocta Cataracts

Tugela Waterfalls

Tags: waterfalls

People With Tails

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:28:43 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: What to say?? I'm speechless... and tailless too, thank heavens!

Clip Source: www.dimaggio.org

Humans Evolved from Ape-like Ancestors

Genetic throwbacks - evidence that our distant ancestors possessed tails (more below)
Throwbacks are accidental expressions of long-dormant genes - in this case, one that results in the production of a tail

Numerous medical and scientific papers documenting such cases from around the world can be found here:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8684345

Or go to: www.pubmed.com and search for 'tail human vestigial'

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8684345

More rare photos of humans born with vestigial tails

You can judge for yourself

Tags: genetics, mutations, science, anomolies

Amazing photograpphy of Gilad Dinari

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:08:31 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.pozitiff.info

Tags: art, interesting

Chomsky - Options On The Table

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:04:07 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: "There are many non-military measures to "contain" Iran, including a de-escalation of rhetoric and hysteria all around, and agreeing to negotiations in earnest for the first time — if indeed all options are on the table."

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

Options on the table

By Noam Chomsky

" -- - In Washington a remarkable and ominous campaign is under way to "contain Iran," which turns out to mean "containing Iranian influence," in a confrontation that Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright calls "Cold War II."

The sabre-rattling rhetoric about "containing Iran" has escalated to the point where both political parties and practically the whole US Press corps accept it as legitimate and, in fact, honourable, that "all options are on the table," to quote the leading presidential candidates — possibly even nuclear weapons. "All options on the table" means that Washington is threatening war. The UN Charter outlaws "the threat or use of force." The United States, which has chosen to become an outlaw state, disregards international laws and norms. We're allowed to threaten anybody we want — and to attack anybody we want.

Iran resists US or Israeli domination of the Middle East but scarcely poses a military threat.

Tags: chomsky, bush, neoconservatism, iran, nuclear war

Friendly Dare Leads to World Championship

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:07:27 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: What a remarkable story. Donald Thomas was a basketball player when his friend dared him to high jump one day. Now he's the World Champion.

I was a high jumper for years -- to see a natural talent go out and clear heights like this with very little experience is breathtaking.

Will make me think twice the next time someone dares me to do something.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Thomas tried high jumping once in a high school competition in the Bahamas as a teenager. He wanted to be a basketball player and enrolled at Lindenwood University in Missouri. But he did not enjoy the program and eventually took the high-jump dare from a friend who had seen him dunk a basketball with great ease. He ended up clearing 2.22 meters in his first meet in January 2006 while wearing basketball shoes and later finished fourth without spikes at the Commonwealth Games.