Archive for September, 2006
Watch Full Length Cartoons Online (Massive List)
Here is a huge list of full length cartoons than you can watch online. All provided by our red, white and black friend You Tube.
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POPULAR MECHANICS VS. MOONBATS
Allahpundit has video of a debate between the authors and editors of Popular Mechanics’ Debunking the 9/11 Myths book and a pair of moonbats behind the Internet 9/11 conspiracy wacko movie We’ve Got A Screw Loose Change.
It ain’t pretty. Popular Mechanics beat the moonbats like a drum, which wasn’t difficult since the PM guys had [...]
15 ways to get more out of Pandora
There’s just so much you can do with music discovery engine Pandora: create your own personalized radio stations, find new, original music and share your stations with friends, just to list a few. But listening to Pandora can be a drag on your system, and its song recommendations can go off the rails if you’re [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Don’t sign your credit cards
Web site The Straight Dope has a brief Q&A on the subject of credit card security and whether or not you should sign the back of your credit cards. The verdict:
Don’t sign it. It’s useless as a deterrent, as anyone who takes your card then has a sample of your signature which they can not [...]
Understand what exercise can do for you
The New York Times has an article covering the ins and outs of exercise and weight loss designed to give you a better understanding of exactly what exercise can do for you.
Aside from detailing the outcomes of different exercises, like which workouts will burn the most calories or which will improve your metabolism, the article [...]
Find a routers login and password
Our tongue-wagging tech gossip pals at Valleywag sent us this web page chock-full of default usernames and passwords for hundreds of routers.
Since we know that many of you are your friends’ and family’s default tech support, it’s nice to have this kind of thing handy when you’re helping someone set up or fix their router [...]
Top ten energy-giving foods
All of us want more energy, and the Food Network has a great list of ten top energy-giving foods.
The list includes berries, vegetables, salmon, lean proteins, tea, and more; with an explanatory blurb for each one. Get a few of these in your fridge or cupboards on a regular basis and I can almost guarantee [...]
WARFARE AND THE GLOBE
If history has shown the observer one thing, it is that war is a part of life. Strange as that may sound, documented records report only 300 years of known peace on our planet, leaving the rest to wallow in the path of war. What that statistic tells us is that there has been some [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ten big news stories you aren’t hearing
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has printed a list of stories we in the media seem to have largely ignored over the past year. The story is gleaned from an annual list developed by Project Censored, a media research group out of Sonoma State University that tracks the news [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses
Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox. It’s called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here’s how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows Vista RC 1, in screenshots
Release candidate software is a final product with most bugs resolved, so when Microsoft offered the Windows Vista RC 1 for download yesterday, I hopped right on it like a kid on a bus to Disneyland. The Vista Beta was a neat preview of what’s to come from Redmond, so I expected a lot [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Monkey Picks on Group of Tigers
This is an older video but I always get a kick out of it. A group of tigers invade a monkeys territory and he picks on them till they give up and leave.
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Screaming Fat kid almost falls out of an amusement park ride
…while his mother just laughs.
“Stop It! Stop It! Stop It! Stop It! Stop It! Stop It!”
Hilarious vid. Enjoy
10 Tips On How To Be Healthier at The Office (for George)
10 Tips On How To Be Healthier at The Office
A lot of us now earn our livings by working in an office environment. This may seem like an environment that would be safe and perhaps an environment that would not damage your health, but if you learn the wrong habits it can be exactly that! [...]
5 Tips on how to treat your life like you are still at school!
I like to think back to my days at school and ponder how, in a way, the system got it right. Let me explain.
Remember how we all used to have different classes? We had science, history, English literature, religious studies, French, geography, art, music and physical education to name but a few. It got [...]
GMail Hacks/Tips
I’ve been using GMail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. The filter feature is easily the best feature of GMail. You can use it for its purpose – to filter spam and other [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Top 100 PC Games Of The 21st Centruy
Next-Gen has ranked the top 100 PC games released since January 2000, based wholly on unit sales. Revenues, aggregate review scores, commentary, franchise information and more are included.
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Share large files with GigaSize
Web site GigaSize is another large file email service that lets you upload and share files up to 1.5 GB for free.
Of course we’ve seen services like this before, for example Dropload, Mailbigfile, and most notably YouSendit (however YouSendIt’s service has become more of a pay service, allowing only 100 MB free uploads), but GigaSize [...]
Download of the Day: Windows Live Local Outlook add-in
Windows only: add maps, routes, driving directions, and more to Outlook with the new Windows Live Local Outlook plug-in.
This is a handy app for anyone who gets tired of switching back and forth between the web and Outlook to email directions; plus, you can totally integrate it with your task planner so your travel time [...]
Download of the Day: Windows Live Local Outlook add-in
Windows only: add maps, routes, driving directions, and more to Outlook with the new Windows Live Local Outlook plug-in.
This is a handy app for anyone who gets tired of switching back and forth between the web and Outlook to email directions; plus, you can totally integrate it with your task planner so your travel time [...]
Work for Google with the Image Labeler
Google’s newly-launched Image Labeler game puts interested users like you to work improving their image search results. Volunteer 90 seconds of your time and Google will pair you up with a random partner, then:
You and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to [...]
Death by Google Calendar: How I Identified you to rob you
I find it very interesting utterly stupid that people display their lives online. As a simple study, I did some digging on Google Calendar. Now, keep in mind that I am somewhat tech-savvy but I used no skills for this. Everything I found in this case was simply a result of a Google Search, an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Avoidable IT Interview Flubs
A study released the week of Aug. 28 by Menlo Park, Calif., staffing firm Accountemps found that one of the most common mistakes made by candidates in job interviews was having little or no knowledge of the company, according to 47 percent of the senior executives surveyed.
While IT recruiters and managers still peg a lack [...]
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