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Clipmarks 4.0 Now Available - supports Firefox 3.5

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:35 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Our upgraded version of Clipmarks is now available. If you click the source link of this clip you'll be able to get it. Anyone having problems, please comment below and we'll try to work them out.

If you wouldn't mind, please pop this clip so others are made aware.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Clipmarks 4.0.0

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One photo is worth one thousand words (38 pics)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:14:39 GMT

clipped by: perellicippo

Clip Source: izismile.com

One photo is worth one thousand words (38 pics)

These photography masterpieces can easily catch your eye. Each photo can be stared at for hours, because each one has a thousand stories to tell.
I recommend you to look these photos. I myself stared at them with a big pleasure. A great way to relax!

[via humorearth.com]

Understndind how children learn language as a new way of building machines

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:32:19 GMT

clipped by: einbar

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Big brother untangles baby babble

"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they develop and how the interplay of innate and environmental influence makes us who we are and how we learn to communicate."

But now, Professor Roy is beginning to get some answers, thanks to an unconventional approach, an accommodating family and a house wired with technology.

I was initially inspired by how children learn language as a new way of building machines,"

"Every parent knows that a child can change a lot in a week or a month," he told BBC News.

"If you're interested in the process of development then it is important to have a continuous view."

"Just as the Human Genome Project illuminates the innate genetic code that shapes us, the Speechome Project is an important first step toward creating a map of how the environment shapes human development and learning," said Frank Moss, the director of MIT's Media Lab at the time.

Palin: Not quitting is for quitters, so I'm quitting

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:15:54 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Once again, Palin blurts her way into senseless babble.

Clip Source: www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Perhaps the best part of Palin's announcement today:

Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

Tags: palin

Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs. Part 1

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:10:28 GMT

clipped by: perellicippo

Clip Source: amolife.com

Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs. Part 1

"The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature."

~ Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Pyramids of Giza (Photography by Richard Nowitz)

Sphinx

Caravan at the Pyramids of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza

Abu Simbel

Cairo (10 Interesting Places to Visit Before You Die)

Cairo Mosques

Nile River from Cairo Tower

Montaza Beacon

Countryside

Cairo (10 Interesting Places to Visit Before You Die)

Spicy

Girl with Red Scarf

ILE ELEPHANTINE

Through the Palms (Taken in the town of Mut, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt)

Dune Patterns (Natures artwork on the sand dunes in Bahariya, Egypt)

Colossi of Memnon

Hatshepsut (Queen Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple, which is built into the cliffs on the westbank of the Nile near Luxor)

Harvest Scene (This is a small portion of a harvest scene from the tomb of Menna, scribe to Tuthmosis IV)

Roofs of Cairo

The Store (The variety is the real spice of life that gives it its flavor.)

Side View of River Nile (Cairo)

Philae

Have a great day!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:19:01 GMT

clipped by: EddieIsSteady

Clip Source: www.anthology-email.net

Have a great day!

Today is no special day and I have no particular reason for writing to you...

I have no news to tell you....

nor any problems to discuss with you.

or gossip to tell you...

It's only one of those happy moments...

when I thought of you...

and I would like to share these thoughts with you...

MANY SMILES BEGIN BECAUSE OF ANOTHER SMILE...

Always have good self esteem...

Take care of your friends, especially those dearest to you...

Take care of your body...

But most of all find time to relax...

A Big Hug

from your friend...

Tags: cute, animation, friendship

Jesus Rode A Dinosaur? Seems Some Think So.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:07:26 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Man, these people are weird!

Clip Source: imgur.com

Did an embezzlement scandal force Palin to resign?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:32:36 GMT

clipped by: disenchantedcitizen
clipper's remarks: Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weeks that “a long simmering embezzlement/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds.”

In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “trust me with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.”

She’s right about one thing, stepping down is in the best interest of Alaska.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal.

The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house

MY MAMA IS A BEAR. MY DAD WAS A VERY BRAVE DOG>

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:19:49 GMT

clipped by: tanyamm

Clip Source: ihasahotdog.com

Sarah's Straight Talk

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:13:21 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Perhaps there is some new and interesting scandal that Palin has yet to let us in on. (If so, I hope it involves a soul mate.) Otherwise, it would appear that this is all about her desire to start raising money and setting up operations for a presidential run in 2012
So if she’s starting to run, it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around.

Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too.

Smiling manically, she looked like a parody of the woman who knocked the Republicans dead at their convention. She babbled about her parents’ refrigerator magnet, which apparently had a lot of wise advice. And she recalled her visit with the troops in Kosovo, whose dedication and determination inspired her to ... resign.

The timing of Palin’s announcement was extremely peculiar. Not only did she interrupt the plans of TV newscasters to spend the entire weekend pointing out that Michael Jackson is still dead, she delivered her big news just as the nation was settling into Fourth of July celebrations. You’d have thought she didn’t want us to notice.

July 1, 2009 sunrise

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:28:00 GMT

clipped by: zadoz
clipper's remarks: from brisbane & bay area

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Gallery: July 1, 2009 sunrise

Sunrise over Wynnum Pier at 6.30am , July 1, 2009.

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Sunrise over the Gold Coast

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Sunrise over the Gold Coast

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Taken at Nudgee Beach

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Moreton Bay from Lota Esplanade

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

July 1, 2009 sunrise as seen from Mansfield looking towards Stradbroke Island

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Sunrise over Darra,

Tags: brisbane, morton bay, sun rise, lota, wynnum

Our greatest happiness in life

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:04:43 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: my.myway.com

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- -- Thomas Jefferson

Tags: our greatest happiness in life, thomas jefferson

A new Futuristic Art project in the K21st blog

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:34:56 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: ".The project will expose and promote futuristic art works and artists who are involved in futuristic art."

Clip Source: k21st.wordpress.com

K21st Futuristic Art Project

We are happy to introduce to our readers a new Futuristic Art project we are starting here in the K21st blog.

The project will expose and promote futuristic art works and artists who are involved in futuristic art. With this project we hope to encourage a synergy between the arts and sciences, and to promote an aesthetic style of futuristic thought

The future that is coming upon us all promises to be more exciting and indeed more extravagant that we can imagine

It is obvious that our old conceptions of what is beautiful and the aesthetics of intelligence amplification are the hallmarks of the arising posthuman

beauty is the catalyzing agent of our conscious reflective processes

Beauty is a special kind of disturbance that awakens and expands consciousness

As to our posthumanist future

My understanding is that our only viable access to a posthuman future is by expanding our consciousness

aesthetics may indeed be a primary key

With these notes we launch our new project

[Video]

Landmark Ruling

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:37 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "One change the ruling could bring soon,activists said, is in dealings with corrupt police officers, who reportedly sometimes extort money by threatening to apply the law or "out" gays and lesbians to friends or family.

Akash Verma, 26, a Delhi resident, said he was returning home late one night in 2004 when two intoxicated policemen who suspected he was gay stole about $20 from his bag and demanded sex, but released him. Verma said other officers later "strongly advised" against filing a complaint.

Although Verma's account could not be independently verified, gay rights activists said such behavior by police is not uncommon."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality, a move that could bring more freedom to millions of people in this deeply conservative nation.

The ruling said that treating relations between consenting adult homosexuals as a crime is a violation of basic human rights safeguarded under the Indian Constitution.

For many homosexuals, the immediate effect on their personal lives will not be dramatic. There's still a strong social stigma here against gays and lesbians, with young people often pressured to marry early and produce grandchildren.

"There's still a mental block," said Rahil Zafar, 22, a student, wearing a bandanna over his face to hide his identity from television cameras as he celebrated. "I don't want my family to know. They keep the pressure on me."

The Magic of The Purity Ring

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:06:14 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Given what I have witnessed from some teens, I wouldn't be surprised.

Clip Source: www.smbc-comics.com