August 2012
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Be Awesome at a Moment’s Notice: A Guide to...
You’re already awesome, but sometimes you’re tired, busy, or for some other reason can’t be at your best 100% of the time. When you need to be, however, you can manipulate your brain and body to rise to the challenge. Here’s how to fool yourself into living up to your full potential in a moment’s notice.Wouldn’t it be great if you could absorb a power star...
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Teen Pot Users Risk Long-Term IQ Drop, Study Says
NEW YORK â Teens who routinely smoke marijuana risk a long-term drop in their IQ, a new study suggests.The researchers didn’t find the same IQ dip for people who became frequent users of pot after 18. Although experts said the new findings are not definitive, they do fit in with earlier signs that the drug is especially harmful to the developing brain.”Parents should understand...
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Lendthing Keeps Track of Who's Borrowed What and...
iOS: We all have a few friends with whom we borrow and lend lots of stuff, but it can get hard to keep track of it all. Lendthing is a simple app that keeps track of who has what, and even lets you send SMS reminders to help get everything back.
Lendthing is easy: just hit the big plus button to add a new item, note who you lent it to (or who borrowed it from you), and it’ll keep a...
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Guide to Building a Hackintosh [OS X 10.8.1]
Building a hackintoshâthat is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardwareâused to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple. With that in mind, here is our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh that will walk you through purchasing compatible parts, building your machine, and...
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Are You a Go Getter or a Frequency Holder?
You’re aware of traditional and mainstream achievement go-getters; we’ll call them Group 1. And there are the adventurous avant-garde and iconoclastic go-getters (Group 2). My many attempts over my lifetime to try these on, because surely one of them had to fit, tended to cause me to get metaphysical splinters; and I figured there was something “wrong” with me when actually...
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Military Terror Plot: Murder Case Uncovers Terror...
LUDOWICI, Ga. — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.Prosecutors in rural Long County, near the sprawling Army post Fort Stewart, said the militia group composed of active duty and...
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Todd Akin: The world's biggest moron
Could there be a bigger idiot than this guy? Cindy McCaine said it best: Rape is rape, Mr. Akin
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) released an ad Tuesday apologizing for his comments about “legitimate rape,” but still giving no indication he plans to drop his bid for Senate.
Akin faced a barrage of criticism on Monday from within his party after saying in a Sunday interview that...
July 2012
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10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes...
It usually takes us much longer to change our moods than weâd like it to take. Here are ten things you can do in ten minutes or less that will have a positive emotional effect on you and those you love.
1.   Watch “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. See it online at Oprah.com. This is a deeply moving segment that may be the best ten minutes you’ve ever invested in front...
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Are organic foods really better?
In a word:  absolutely!  I’ve attached a chart from the current issue of Psychology Today, and I think you’ll agree that we should be buying organic food as much as we can.  While I’m always out for a bargin, when it comes to food, I always buy the very best I can find, regardless of price.  And, if what I want is just too expensive, I’ll forgo buying it instead of...
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Glary System Utilities is the best computer...
While there’s quite a lot of computer software utilities out there that promise to get your computer squeaky clean, it’s been my experience that most of them end up deleting important files or registry items such that the only fix is a reversion, and/or they slow my computer way down as if it were on a heavy dose of Benadryl. However, after using the full 30-day trial of Glary...
June 2012
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Did John Roberts Give Mitt Romney A Gift?
By, Marcia Angell, M.D.
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, puts me in mind of the old proverb: Be careful what you wish for. Democrats on a victory lap should watch their step, because John Roberts may have given Mitt Romney a gift. The impact on the health system will be much smaller than the political fallout, because with or without...
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Did Roberts flip? Clues suggest court initially...
While Republicans gasped as Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court’s liberal wing in upholding the federal health care overhaul, clues in the dissent suggest the conservative jurist may have originally sided against the law.
Perhaps the country will never know, but legal experts have seized on a string of passages in the dissent that indicate their opinion was originally...
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How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew
The folks over at BuzzFeed Labs have been busy. Â While I haven’t tried this, myself, simple physics dictates that it should work. Â If you try it, let me know how it goes.
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How Will the New Health Care Law Affect Me?
Politics aside, we know the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPACA) is kind of confusing, so let’s break it down to the basics of what the law means, what the recent Supreme Court ruling signifies, and finally take a look at what the law will actually mean to you.
The Basics of the PPACA and the Supreme Court Ruling
The PPACA is a gigantic law and we’re just going...
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Norah Jones doesn't play it safe
Norah Jones performs at the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Paul McCartney in February.
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Norah Jones is on tour with a new album
“Little Broken Hearts” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart last month
Jones says concert-goers have been receptive to the new music
The album is a collaboration with hip-hop beatmaster Danger Mouse
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'Magic Mike' is about the tease
“Magic Mike” may just draw in a few female (and male!) viewers this weekend.
Channing Tatum plays a stripper and Matthew McConaughey a club owner in “Magic Mike”
Director Steven Soderbergh’s last movie was the female action film “Haywire”
The movie is inspired by Tatum’s experiences as a Tampa stripper in the 1990s
(CNN) — There...
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Find The Best: A Smart Comparison Engine For Just...
Choices, choices, choices. Whether you’re on the market for a new computer, an eBook reader, a pair of headphones, or just about anything else, the selection can be overwhelming. Each type of product has its own terminology and specifications, and you have to make sense of an entire alphabet soup to be able to tell the best apart from the merely okay. Also, every class of product has a different...
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101 most useful websites
Special thanks to Amit Agarwal for this list.
01. screenr.com â record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com â for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl â shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. unfurlr.come â find the original URL thatâs hiding behind a short URL.
05. qClock â find the local...
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Know your personal brand
Identifying and marketing your personal brand is an essential core competency for managing and sustaining a successful career. Empower yourself by knowing what you have to offer, what you want and how to ask for it.[callout title=Know who you are]Your ability to market your talents, accomplishments and value inside your organization and within your profession, industry and community are a key part...
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18 cool suggestions to make over your home
Don’t you love watching the flip-it and home makeover shows? Do they make you want to redo your own home?
Check out this list of economical updating ideas.
Interior
Change the cabinet hardware. Do this in the kitchen, the bathroom or anywhere you have knobs that are dull, outdated, or you ‘re just tired of. A great place to find them is Habitat for Humanity Restores, yardsales and...
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Romney to undergo gender reassignment surgery to...
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Kamikaze Boys, by Jay Bell [BOOK REVIEW]
I’m not a fan of young adult fiction (or YA) because I’m well past the YA demographic, and reading about the slings and arrows of the outrageous lives of high school kids is about as interesting to me as watching paint dry. Sure, I’m as sentimental as the next guy, but…come on! Even when I was a teenager, teen angst was boring. And, until recently, the Gay fiction market was equally...
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Doo Automatically Organizes Your Documents, Syncs...
Windows, OS X, and Web: Doo is an automatic document organizer that finds files on your hard drive, in Dropbox, and even in your email. On top of that, it’ll take all your documents and sync them to the cloud and across multiple computers.
We’re not without document syncing options these days, as we already have the wonderful Dropbox, plus both Google Docs and InSync for Google...
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Chewing gum expands the mind. Seriously!
Maybe walking and chewing gum at the same time shouldn’t be so tough after all. A joint study carried out by the University of Northumbria and the Cognitive Research Unit in England has found that the act of chewing gum improves short- and long-term memory by as much as 35 percent.
Spearmint, cinnamon or bubble-gum flavor — it doesn’t matter. The key to better brain power is the...
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The 10 hottest jobs for the next millennium
Whether you’re just entering the job market or you want to jump-start your current profession, we invite you to check out the 10 hottest careers for 1999 and beyond. The selection taps into a variety of interests, skills, experience requirements and job levels. Salaries, which largely depend on experience and geographical location, range from the low $20s to more than $100,000 annually.
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7 tips for effective listening
To be successful, you must be able to write, speak, and listen effectively. Of these three skills, effective listening may be the most crucial because you’re required to do it so often. Unfortunately, listening also may be the most difficult skill to master.
Effective listening is challenging, in part, because people often are more focused on what they’re saying than on what...
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18 Ways for Loving Your Home on a Budget
Don’t you love watching the flip-it and home makeover shows? Do they make you want to redo your own home?
Check out this list of economical updating ideas.
Interior
Change the cabinet hardware. Do this in the kitchen, the bathroom or anywhere you have knobs that are dull, outdated, or you ‘re just tired of. A great place to find them is Habitat for Humanity Restores, yardsales and...
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The Courage to Fail Well
We can become so stilted toward success in life that we become morbidly fearful of failure. When the drive to achieve sets the compass of all our hopes, there is little room or toleration for missing the mark.
Our very hunger for success may just be the thing that keeps us from true success - the liberation of our person. Only when we are free to fail, abjectly free to remain happily broken, not...
May 2012
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ADD / ADHD: Are You Worried That Your Child May...
If your child is having trouble in school, at home or at social events, you may worry about the possibility of suffering from ADHD. If left untreated, can negatively affect your child’s future, which affects school performance, social relationships, health and self-esteem. The good news is that thanks to recent advances in ADHD treatment and support, you can now do something about it. ADHD...
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The Tablet PC: Why it's better than a tablet
If ever there was a product that’s under-appreciated, it’s the Tablet PC. Over the last five-odd years, I’ve watched the smartphones evolve into greatness, and yet, only now are we starting to see a market for penning notes. Enter, for example, Samsung’s Galaxy Note. However, to us geeks who remember (with fond-yet-contentious memories) Microsoft’s WindowsCE or 6.1...
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Tablets v Tablet Computers
What’s the difference, you ask? The between a “tablet computer” and a plain, old “tablet” is that the tablet computers are actual computers (running whatever version of Windows, usually Windows 7 for the newer ones) while the plain, old tablet is everything else: iPads, Kindle Fire, etc. (see pics below) For me, there’s no competition: tablet computers...
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A Murder of Crows: Amazingly Smart Birds
Here’s a great video on crows - how they recognize people, etc. Check it out!
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How Quantum Suicide Works
A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it’s rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle — or quark— is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won’t. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a...
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30 Windows 7 Hotkeys: Ultimate Guide
Apart from so many new features in Windows 7, Microsoft has also added new hotkeys to give individuals better control over their operating system. We have covered 30 hotkeys for Windows 7 which we believe everyone should know about. Master them all to increase your daily productivity.
Windows + Up Arrow
It is used to maximize the current window which is in focus, whether it is a windows...
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Insider tells why Anonymous ‘might well be the...
A photo on the Greek ministry of justice website after it was hacked by Anonymous in February 2012. Anonymous came in first place in Time Magazineâs 2012 online poll on the most influential “person” in the world.
Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path...
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Google+ Hangouts on Air Lets You Broadcast Live to...
Google+ Hangouts, our favorite free video chatting service, is rolling out the ability to broadcast your Hangouts live and save them directly to YouTube with “Hangouts on Air.”
A handful of content creators have been testing out the service for the last several weeks, and it is just now beginning to roll out to the public. Setup couldn’t be simpler: just check the box to...
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Instacorder Is a No-Frills App For Emailing...
iOS: Instacorder is a dead-simple app that will instantly email voice memos to yourself for reviewing and organizing on your computer.
The first time you open the app, you’ll be asked for your email address, after which you’ll simply hold the huge recording button to enable the microphone. As soon as you let go, the voice memo is instantly sent to your email. While you could always...
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The saddest ebay auction
Was stumbling around and found this. Indeed, very sad!
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SOPA Emergency IP List
So if these bastards in DC decide to ruin the internet with SOPA
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, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201
# News
bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131...
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A new species: the ADD/ADHD geek
If ordinary geeks are a subset of the human species, ADD and ADHD geek are a unique - perhaps even new - species of human, entirely. Do you envy your non-ADD / ADHD friends who just love their smartphone with its stock ROM? Does your jaw hit the floor when you watch (with a combination of awe and disgust) a friend who’s able to dash off a Google search, get a quick street view on...
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Stop telling students to study
Among the problems on college campuses today are that students study for exams and faculty encourage them to do so.
I expect that many faculty members will be appalled by this assertion and regard it as a form of academic heresy. If anything, they would argue, students don’t study enough for exams; if they did, the educational system would produce better results. But this simple and...
April 2012
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Treasury Tries To Bail Out Public Image Of Bailout
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department is worried that the high political cost of some of its key economic intervention programs — most notably, the bank bailout — will deter future officials from undertaking meaningful action in the midst of a future crisis, senior officials said at a background briefing Friday. To win back the public, agency officials are doing what any...
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Gay marriage: bigotry is alive and well
The warrior against gay marriage is religion. And I’m being kind when I say this, because another popular argument has to do with nature - and this one is so preposterous that I’ll deal with it first and then move on to religion.
People of the same gender cannot procreate.
No kidding! Before I follow the absurdity logic of this argument to its conclusion, let me first give you...
March 2012
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Turin Shroud Led Apostles To Believe In...
A new book was published today in the UK, following what Penguin Books told The Bookseller was âHarry Potter-style security measuresâ to keep its contents secret.
The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection by Thomas de Wesselow (Viking) is the latest book to take a controversial angle on the world-famous religious relic.
With a US release date of April 3rd (in other...
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The ADD and ADHD geek: a new species
A new species: the ADD/ADHD geek
If ordinary geeks are a subset of the human species, ADD and ADHD geek are a unique - perhaps even new - species of human, entirely. Do you envy your non-ADD / ADHD friends who just love their smartphone with its stock ROM? Does your jaw hit the floor when you watch (with a combination of awe and disgust) a friend who’s able to dash off a Google...
October 2011
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AA Destroying The Social Lives Of Thousands Of Once-Fun Americans
