• Jun
  • 25

All The Best Tips on Getting In Shape, In One Handy List | Zen Habits

Several handy tips for getting in shape… plus a photo of a hot girl.

I’m getting to the age where the body doesn’t always cooperate with the desire. I use to play racquetball in college. Ok that was a long time ago. The hub and I took it up again to have fun together and get some exercise. We…

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  • Jun
  • 04

The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)

There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankins study of sarcasm ? at least, nothing worth your important time. All she did was use an M.R.I. to find the place in the brain where the ability to detect sarcasm resides. But then, you probably already knew it was in the right parahippocampal gyrus.

In one videotaped exchange, a man walks into the room of a colleague named Ruth to tell her that he cannot take a class of hers that he had previously promised to take. “Don’t be silly, you shouldn’t feel bad about…

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  • May
  • 29

25 Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Job Search

#8. Including your current work info as the best place to contact you.

"When 'I' is the predominant subject — and there are times when it is the only subject of all the sentences in the cover letter — it indicates to me that they don't understand my organization and its needs,…

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  • May
  • 17

Don’t like speeding tickets? I present Trapster. Discuss.

When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster? learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.

When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster® learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree….

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  • May
  • 14

Surreal paintings of Jacek Yerka [Pics]

Jacek Yerka famous Polish painter of fantasy world and landscapes. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.

U are a great artist! For sure! Great artists know the value of the subconscious to the art. Just as Dali did know. True art is never simply naturalistic or banal if you ‘d like to put it that way. Realism and naturalism is merely…

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  • May
  • 14

Are your eyes playing tricks on you?

Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page…..

The sheet of photoreceptors is much like a sheet of film at the back of a camera. But it has a hole in it. At one location, called the optic nerve head, processes of neurons collect together and pass as a bundle through the photoreceptor sheet to…

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  • May
  • 09

Tips For Dealing With Information Overload

“I sent a couple of people the following question: “. Interesting takes from interesting people including Matt Cutts and Niniane Wang of Google, Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo, Noam Chomsky of MIT, and Elinor Mills of CNet.

Tony Ruscoe, Google Blogoscoped: ?[B]y reducing the amount of information. So, for FriendFeed, I originally subscribed to quite a lot of people. Once they introduced the “friend of friend” type of sharing, I couldn’t…

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  • May
  • 06

Skills for Men - Things Men Should Be Able to Do - Esquire

by Esquires Tom Chiarella; May 5, 2008, 5:24 AM-
The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master
Buzz up!A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through…

52. Step into a job no one wants to do. When I was 13, my dad called me into his office at the large urban mall he ran. He was on the phone. What followed was a fairly banal 15-minute conversation, which involved the collection of rent from a…

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  • May
  • 04

Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide (and how to rank your addiction) | Put Things Off

Whether you enjoy these fine notebooks already - or if you're thinking about them - read this article! (I love Moleskines, BTW)

These look very nice, but I don’t think I’ll be buying one anytime soon. For one thing, I find that when I buy something beautiful to write in I feel like I have to write something “worthy” in it, so I never…

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  • Apr
  • 22

Behold: a galaxy suspended in a glass cube.

The Milky Way Galaxy laser etched into a small glass cube with our solar system positioned directly in the center. From Tokyo design office Living World. Buy it for $772!

“Beyond the solar system? was built using data from a project dubbed 4D2U. The galactic data for 4D2U was produced by Eiichiro Kokubo, Assistant Professor in the Division of Theoretical Astronomy at the National Astronomical…

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