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The world's real shape(s): see these images...

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:52:59 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: so informative, a fresh thinking.. excerpts

How the world really shapes up

Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps - or cartograms - redraw the globe with each country's size proportionate to its strengths, or weaknesses, in a whole series of categories.

For instance, when it comes to military spending, the U.S. appears bloated, but Africa is huge when HIV prevalence is mapped.

The cartograms were produced in a unique collaboration between the universities of Michigan in the U.S. and Sheffield. Here are images and more details on some of the most fascinating...

Alcohol Consumption (2001)

HIV Prevalence

House Prices

Military Spending

War and death

Toy Imports

Toy Exports

Wealth of Nations (1500)

Wealth of Nations (2002)

Tags: world, countries, divisions, cartograms.

Error Messages on Computer Screens in Japan

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:02:49 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: I wonder if Vista will adopt this.

Clip Source: www.utdallas.edu

Error Messages From Japan:

Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where they are written in Haiku.
Aren't these better than, "your computer has performed an illegal operation"?
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The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
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Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
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Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.
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Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
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A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.
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Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here.
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Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.
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Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped.
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Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Tags: internet, web, interesting, japan, funny, fun, humor

The five most dangerous roads of the world

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:20:09 GMT

clipped by: astronkyttaron
clipper's remarks: Have a nice journey ;--D

Clip Source: blogs.ibibo.com

Top 5 most dangerous roads of the world

#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia

#2: Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China)

#3: Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail (China)

#4: Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk

#5: Taroko Gorge Road in Taiwan

Tags: dangerous, roads, travel, adventure

Unintentionally funny newspaper headlines

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:35:46 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: funnies.paco.to

Some are just slips of the tongue

Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes gas tax onto senate
Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
William Kelly was fed secretary
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
Farmer bill dies in house
Iraqi head seeks arms

Some become unintentionally suggestive

Queen Mary having bottom scraped
Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
Prostitutes appeal to Pope
Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over
NJ judge to rule on nude beach
Child's stool great for use in garden
Dr. Ruth to talk about sex with newspaper editors
Soviet virgin lands short of goal again
Organ festival ends in smashing climax

Grammar often botches other headlines

Eye drops off shelf
Squad helps dog bite victim
Dealers will hear car talk at noon
Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests
Miners refuse to work after death
Two Soviet ships collide - one dies
Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter

Once in a while, a botched headline takes on a meaning opposite from the one intended:

Never withhold herpes from loved one
Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy
Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984
Autos killing 110 a day, let's resolve to do better

Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious

If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while
War dims hope for peace
Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
Cold wave linked to temperatures
Child's death ruins couple's holiday
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
Man is fatally slain
Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation

Tags: funny, humor, newspapers, headlines

10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World (w/ photos)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:11:12 GMT

clipped by: alanocu

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

Newgrange

The burial mound of Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland

it is the also the world’s oldest surviving building (it’s older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt)

Tana Toraja

Sulawesi, Indonesia

the strange part

the funeral ceremony is often held weeks, months, or even years after the death

Westminster Abbey

London, United Kingdom

Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Tennyson

Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Ernest Rutherford were all interred there

Giza Necropolis

Egypt

the base sides have a mean margin of error of only 2 1/3 inch (58 mm)!

Valley of the Kings

a burial ground of ancient Egyptian pharaohs

Catacombs of Paris

a network of underground tunnels and rooms that used to be Roman-era limestone quarries

Terracota Army

Xi’an, China

the burial ground of Qin Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor and the unifier of China

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Palermo, Italy

Sedlec Ossuary

Sedlec, Czech Republic

Taj Mahal

Agra, India

October 1st, 2007

Tags: tombs, burial, landmarks

The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century

Tue, 22 May 2007 06:00:44 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: Creepy.

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West African nation of Cameroon… and what they’re doing to try and stop it from happening again.

Overnight, something had killed nearly 1,800 people. Plus more than 3,000 cattle and countless wild animals, birds and insects—in short every living creature for miles around.

The official death toll was recorded as 1,746 people, but that was only an estimate, because the survivors had already begun to bury victims in mass graves, and many terrified survivors had fled corpse-filled villages and were hiding in the forest. Whatever it was that killed so many people seemed to have disappeared without a trace just as quickly as it had come.

There was no evidence of bleeding, physical trauma, or disease, and no sign of exposure to radiation, chemical weapons, or poison gas. And there was no evidence of suffering or “death agony”: The victims apparently just blacked out, fell over, and died.

Tags: disaster, news

Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:44:51 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: "Space... the final frontier"

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

Alborz Mountains in Moonlight

Eclipsing the Rings

Seven Dusty Sisters

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672

A Dark Sky Over Death Valley

Markarian's Eyes

The International Space Station Expands Again

Northern Cygnus

The Strange Trailing Side of Saturn's Iapetus

Victoria Crater on Mars

A Tale of Comet Holmes

10 Street Names You'd Never Imagine As Real

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:49:32 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: A funny link here... a funny link there, and 2 hours are gone.

Clip Source: www.themishmash.com

1. Butt Hole Road

2. TitMan Road

3. Every man's nightmare: BlueBall Avenue

4. Cock Hill Lane

5. Dead Cat Alley

6. Shades of Death Road

7. PeePee Falls St.

8. Kitchen-Dick Road

9. LickSkillet Road

10. And last, but not least: Booger Hollow.

And, yes, ALL of the street names are real. Google Maps links are provided for each.

Tags: funny

Most dangerous roads of the world

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:18:10 GMT

clipped by: qachee

Clip Source: linkinn.com

Top 5 most dangerous roads of the world

#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia

#2: Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China)

#3: Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail (China)

#4: Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk

The same road in winter:

#5: Taroko Gorge Road in Taiwan

Tags: dangerous, taboo, scary, death

Five Million People Annihilated: not news.

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:34:36 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: As ever, the government and mass media determine what we talk about.

Clip Source: munaeem.blog-city.com

"A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower."

Possibly a quarter million people have lost their lives in Darfur, western Sudan, in ethnic conflict. The U.S. government screams its head off in denunciation of genocide, in this case. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as many as five million have died since 1994 in overlapping convulsions of ethnic and state-sponsored massacre. Not a word of reproach from Washington. A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two - an ongoing holocaust - unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower.

Why is

Congo unworthy of mention? The answer is simple: in Sudan, the U.S. has a geopolitical nemesis to confront: Arabs, and their Chinese business partners. In the Congo, it is U.S allies and European and American corporate interests that benefit from the slaughter.

Tags: congo, genocide, africa, news

Top 10 Funniest Internet Quotes

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:52:41 GMT

clipped by: GoldyWorld

Clip Source: techchickblog.com

“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” Michael Sinz

“If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0″ Author Unknown

“Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free” Bill Gates

“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks” Author Unknown

“You can’t take something off the Internet - it’s like taking pee out of a pool.” Author Unknown

“The Internet is the Viagra of big business.” - Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

“The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented.” Author Unknown

“There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.” Guy Almes

“Better to be a geek than an idiot.” Author Unknown

“My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.” Penn Jillett

Tags: quotes, comedy, internet

Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Death

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:26:19 GMT

clipped by: locolapapa
clipper's remarks: See all ten on my clipmarks or visit the site.

Clip Source: www.shorttext.com

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

Tags: death, facts, interesting

If the world were 100 people

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:43:52 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz

Clip Source: www.wildcrazy.com

Something to think about!!

If the world were 100 people

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from North and South America

8 Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite, 30 white

59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people

and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death

1 would be near birth

Only 1 would have a college education

99 of them will not see this message,

because only 1 would have a computer.

Tags: if

What would happen if all humans disappeared from the earth?

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:15:12 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: A timeline that shows how long it would take for traces of human-made things and systems to vanish if we all suddenly went away.

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

Tags: humans, nature, science, death, timeline, end, earth, civilization, time, decay, life, environment, visualization

Young Woman Meets Tragic End -- No, It's Not Anna Nicole

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:29:58 GMT

clipped by: amberella

Clip Source: editorandpublisher.com

Young Woman Meets Tragic End -- No, It's Not Anna Nicole

NEW YORK A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress.

No, it's not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq. But you'd be lucky if you could find any mention of her, amidst the front page and wall-to-wall media coverage of the likely drug-related death of "starlet" Smith.

In fact, as of noon today, there were only seven press mentions, all in the area of her native Maryland, according to a Google search.

In contrast to, say, Anna Nicole Smith, Parcell seemed to have a serious side. Even in Iraq, she was managing to take a course at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore Sun relates, adding: "Helping others was routine for the Marine corporal. She sponsored an African child through a mission charity. And when Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake last year, she and others in her unit were dispatched to the scene. She earned the Humanitarian Service Medal for her efforts."

In fact, the Sun, in a separate story noted: "With the death of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith yesterday, a ferocious barrage of Marilyn Monroe-like images and scattershot speculation was instantly loosed across the on-air and online landscape of 24-hour news...The one constant: The story was consistently framed in a breathless tabloid manner."

The cause of Parcell's death has not yet been released. The Pentagon notice simply says that she died "supporting" combat operations in Anbar province, not actually in combat.

It would be nice, he suggests, if just one cable news channel, instead of dwelling on Anna Nicole, would bring on a medical expert "to talk about the type of combat injuries that America's fighting men and women are suffering in Iraq, and whether the troops have adequate protection." Or maybe find a friend or colleague in the field who could tell us about Parcell's life, "and our loss."

Tags: news, war