Experiment

My cousin has been experimenting with gratitude. For thirty days she has committed to finding something, anything to be grateful for. Reading her posts follows the wave of inspiration striking, uncertainty creeping in, and then breaking through again – not to inspiration, but something else. I dare call it change. Because of her readership she is called to be accountable for her promise some

Filed under: Storage Although it’s been several years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, it looks like some of the data gathered during the orbiter’s final mission will be put to good use. A hard drive salvaged from the wreckage contains the results of an experiment to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity, and [...]

SPACE.com - Using data recovered from a damaged computer hard-drive that was aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, scientists have recently learned more about why the act of shaking a material can quickly transform it into something completely different.

News: 02-05-2008: Blabbermouth note: Magna Carta Records will release LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT's self-titled debut album on double LP gatefold 180-gram vinyl on June 10. There will only be 1,000 copies of this album released worldwide. The details are as follows: * Limited edition of 1,000 * Double vinyl pressing (first disc on green vinyl; second disc on purple vinyl) * 180 gram colored... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!

Estados Unidos | 1998 | Progressive RockLTE es una banda creada por Mike Portnoy y ha editado dos discos bajo el sello Magna Carta Records.Las sesiones de composición y grabación de este album fue tan solo de una semanaLine UpJohn Petrucci - GuitarraMike Portnoy - BateriaTony Levin - BajoJordan Rudess - TecladoTrack list01. Paradigm shift02. Osmosis03. Kindred spirits04. The stretch05. Freedom of speech06. Chris and Kevin's excellent adventure07. State of grace08. Universal mind09. Three minute warning [pt 1]10. Three minute warning [pt 2]11. Three minute warning [pt 3]12. Three minute warning [pt 4]13. Three minute warning [pt 5]

Filed under: Gaming About a year ago, one morbidly obese (er, a tiny bit chubby) man began a quest to find out what happens when you stop being polite and try to exercise via Wii Sports (see above). Apparently after losing 9 pounds, dropping two points from his BMI, and 3-inches from his waist, he's ready to go again, this time with the Wii Fit. Sure, it sounds like a second-rate Super Size Me publicity stunt -- and it probably is -- but who doesn't want to see just how lean the Wii's newest accessory can get you? Now, the tubby 191 pound man will run himself through a rigorous Wii Fit program for five shocking weeks. The stunt has already scored him an early Fit from Nintendo, so there's no telling where this could go. We expect to see an Adonis or skeleton when it's all over, pal -- eith

Filed under: Gaming About a year ago, one morbidly obese (er, a tiny bit chubby) man began a quest to find out what happens when you stop being polite and try to exercise via Wii Sports (see above). Apparently after losing 9 pounds, dropping two points from his BMI, and 3-inches from his waist, he’s ready [...]

Audio/visual media ← Previous revision Revision as of 20:32, 30 April 2008 Line 83: Line 83: An early film to dramatize the experiment is ''The Bermuda Triangle'' (1979). One portion of the film shows a Navy ship rigged with power cables to create the disappearing field. The ship is made to appear to vanish into the sea, and the sailors experience the effects attributed to the experiment, i.e., vomiting, and disappearing and reappearing. An early film to dramatize the experiment is ''The Bermuda Triangle'' (1979). One portion of the film shows a Navy ship rigged with power cables to create the disappearing field. The ship is made to appear to vanish into the sea, and the sailors experience the effects attributed to the experiment

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Defends Tuskegee Experiment, Anti-Gay Comments Continuing to drive a wedge between Barack Obama and the hopeful new America his campaign aims to impart to voters, Rev. Jeremiah Wright further defended comments he made during a YouTube taped Chicago Sermon while speaking before a group of journalists Monday. Wright addressed the National Press Club [...]

This is so awesome. I had never heard of the experiment at the time I saw this video and it was a complete surprise for me at the end. I was assuming that since the research was done over 50 years ago, there was no ethics committee to tell him that what he was doing was unethical or immoral so [...]

Written by Content Consumer Is Ubuntu usable enough for a non-tech-savvy girlfriend yet? Introduction I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend [...]

It’s been about a month and a half since my last Prosper experiment update so I thought I would share what is going on with it. Well not much new to report, and that is good news! All 37 loans are still current, and I was able to pick up another $50 loan (Credit Rating: AA [...]

IN WESTERN SOCIETY THE IDEA OF USING VIZUALIZATION TECHNIQUES TO GAIN KNOWELDGE OF THE UNIVERSE IS CONSIDERED ESOTERIC AND NEW AGE HOCUS POCUS. IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN SOME CIRCLES, BUT NORMALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF "VISUALIZING SUCCESS" FOR ATHELETES...

I am going to be on a short break until Weds night, have a few baseball games to attend to tomorrow I did find this interesting post from Max Davis, author of Blogging Experiment. He is offereing a class on how to buy and sell websites. Pretty interesting stuff. I would consider the class, [...]

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I join Million Blog List a blogsphere experiment. Its started last April 10, 2008 and right now there are 811 blogs that has been listed. I am number 811 on the million blog list. Some ground rules of Million Blog List: NO BLOGS THAT ARE NSFW You must put your blog at the bottom of the list [...]

Ever since Carlos turned me on to the Twitter, the idea of thesideblog/microblog has really taken off for me. It's a great way to share what's going on in your life with others without having to stop and jump through...

Hey, came across this interesting experiment, trying to poll and test the response rate of (i think) bloggers. It’s an experiment to see how long it would take to list 1 million blogs, when there's an estimation of about 70 million blogs worldwide.This blog is listed #292, check it out here, and spread it (for fun yo')(I think it should takes about 6-12 months. We shall see.)

The Experiment ( 254 MB )Over sweeping cliffs and across scenic coastlines, this innovativeshared adventure be gins in the bowels of an old, dilapidated shipgrounded ashore. Mysteriously, you find yourself in the ship’soperations room faced with a highly advanced panel of controls,surveillance monitors, and a wide array of sophisticated technology.As you watch the monitors for other signs of life, you discover awoman. Unable to find a way to communicate with her directly, yourealize that you are her only hope. She needs your help.The problem is, you too are being held prisoner by an unseen captor.Soon you come to realize that the only way to escape is to help oneanother. But… who are you? Who is she? Why do you control both your fates?Is escape from this floating prison your only goal,

There's always going to be "projects" going on to test the response of bloggers in one way or another. Thus, this one came with no surprise. Name of "project": Million Blog List It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence. (I suspect more.) Continue reading...

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. - Albert Einstein Well I suppose I will get on the bandwagon and place my blog here. Even though it will probably be used for malicious spam purposes, I suppose that’s what AKISMET is for right?…….Right? Put [...]

Hello all,I know I have been more than neglectful when it comes to posting here on the site but I hope to remedy that with a new experiment.I have been reading A Year At The Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy (he of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame). The book chronicles his commitment to see a movie in a theater everyday for an entire year. He traveled all over and visited all types of theaters and saw all genres of movies both new and old. It is a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes movies, likes to laugh, or breathes. Also, it has inspired me to start my own experiment.I will watch one movie every day for a year. However, I don't have the commitment (or time and resources) to see every movie in a theater so I will be watching movies in theaters, on

One of the things that I have been curious about is how these dawn redwood trees will grow once pruned.  There is a branch on Dawn McCain that looks like it is in sort of rough shape, so I figured this would be a good branch to experiment on.  I cut off the end of [...]

I’d felt a bit dejected over the fact that none of my little greenhouses had shown signs of life.  So, today I decided to move them to a more exposed area with more sunlight.  As I was doing this I noticed green. I thought, “Could it be?”.  Sure enough one little flat of all the [...]

Whenever I get caught sat in a coffee shop with nothing to do I have a little thought experiment I do. You see, daydreaming is a good thing that lets the brain prepare for future situations. So I think, what would I do if I had 10-million in my pocket.I was thinking about it so much I did some research when I got back in the office.How about buying a place at Apogee Condo South Beach?This is a luxury residential development. They only have 68 residences so they are worth a lot. They start at around $3 million and go up to roughly $10 million. The nearby amenities are amazing and you're in a great place.So, if I had that 10-mill, I could just spend 3 and keep the rest to live the high life. Or, just spend the whole 10, because it's all about the view baby.Have a look at www.apogeecond

-to-triple-your-current-adsense-income.php People who have been following this website since the start know that the first ‘make money’ website I stumbled upon was Blogging Experiment. Author Ben Cook had a lot of great advice for people just starting their blog. Nine months into the experiment, Ben sold his website for 5 figures. The new author, Max Davis, has already [...]

You may have noticed that I’m working on a new blog design again. But this time everything is a bit different than my last design change some month ago. At the moment I’m heavily working on porting my old Blogger blog to Wordpress (which I have already done when you read that post here). So I’ve [...]

Please excuse the video player below. I am doing an experiment with Googles new YouTube player. So far I can't really get it to play the kind of blues music that I want it too. But if you don't mind seeing music other blues music you can watch it and let me know what you think.Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

Only some hours are left and my Making Money Experiment will come to an end, at least phase one (more info will follow).I won't go into the details here, but tomorrow I will write my sixth month report, where you will find a big summary of my progress and some future outlooks. Don't think my experiment is completely over now, the first six month were only phase one, there's definitely more to come!Btw, this post was post number 99 and it makes perfect sense to end phase one with post number 100 tomorrow ;)Cheers,Querblogger

To end off the month, here the five random tracks my iPod threw out for your pleasure. Actually, I'm cheating, because it listed a couple of tracks I recently posted... The Band with Neil Diamond - Dry Your Eyes.mp3 From The Last Waltz. Neil Diamond must have retained some of the cool he had rightfully acquired before going all lamé on us (cf. Pissing off the Thought Police with Neil Diamond),

Hooyah... one month has passed, finally. Perhaps some of you are wondering why my blog looks so needy recently (well, inspite of me being a needy blogger, hehe) I guess I should tell you why I put my picture slide on my side bar, along with my IM ID starting february 28th, i.e. last month. My friend Eci is asking me for a favor for her master’s degree thesis of psychology about Online’s friend’s behavior. According to one of her source; www.ex-designz.net with the “Cyber sex ~ who does it and why” post, Mr. Joan wrote:And one of his confessions: Eci asked me to help her research by adding my IM ID and pictures of myself on my blogs; Chronicles of Trisna and Spicy Art in Fridge, and fill in her questionnaire. “Online’s Friend’s Behavior Questionnaire” If

News: 27-03-2008: Liquid Tension Experiment Announce Second Same-Day Show For New York City have announced a second show for their upcoming 10th Anniversary reunion tour. It will take place on June 23rd at 11:30pm at BB King's, as the 8:00pm show is sold out. tour dates: June 21 - Bethlehem, PA - NEARfest X 23 - New York City - BB King's (8:00pm - SOLD OUT) 23 - New York City - BB King's... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!

TOKYO, JAPAN, March 26, 2008 — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications.

References;1.Atomic orbitals w.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/properties/atomorbs.html2. Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) n.wikipedia.org/wiki/scanning_tunneling_microscope3. Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) pictures Atoms of Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG). purdue.edu/nanophys/stm.html4. Wikipedia article Atomic Force Microscope pedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscopeTo plot a path for something you need to know exactly where the object is and be able to work outexactly where it's going to be an instant later. You can't do this for electrons. While most booksshow electrons in orbits like planets around the sun, in reality electron orbits are much morecomplex. Reference 1. discusses atomic orbitals and has drawings of the probability of where theelectrons will travel around the atom

Beyond the stars in the far reaches of infinite space lie multiple universes similar to ours yet unique in their own special extra-terrestrial way ! Planetary systems and star clusters with varied Spiritual Entities just like us are somewhere out there hundreds of light years away. Pleiades is one of these star systems said to be around 500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus, The Bull ! The entire Pleiades cluster is the eye of the bull. The seven stars in the Pleiades star cluster are Taygeta, Maya, Coela, Atlas, Merope, Electra and Alcoyne. The Pleiadians live in the 5th dimension, which is one of love and creativity. Around Taygeta is a planet almost as big as Earth ( 10 % smaller ) called 'Erra'. The Lyrans left their home constellation because of the many wars in their wo

To install the Blogging Experiment WordPress Theme you will need to be familiar to some degree with customization, widgets, Plugins and themes. There is also some help provided in the comment section, but it states that they won’t do a full term custom install. Read More...

Electronic Experiment Kit with Computer Inteface, Snap-Circuits List Price: $79.99 Publisher: Elenco Electronics IncSalesrank: 75579Released: 12 June, 2006 Our Price: $69.95   Media: Toy Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Features: Snap-Circuits are the Best Introduction to Hands on Electronics Experimentation on the Market. Complete over 300 Snap-Circuits experiments. Computer Interface Kit Included. DR. TOY - 100 BEST CHILDREN’S PRODUCTS! Tags: Pop, chris, Air, dance, up, [...]

At the moment I'm involved in investigating a really nice money making opportunity called Bum Marketing. Basically, it's a way to make money online without investing a single cent. Therefore it's called "Bum" Marketing, because even a bum from the street could (in theory) start earning a nice income online without paying anything for it.The basic idea behind this marketing method is the following. First, you have to search a product you want to promote. It should be a niche product that people really want to buy. For example a uber-great ebook about magic methods for losing weight without doing any hard work on it (Ok, it's probably an ugly example... :)Second thing is keyword research. Look for long-tail keywords with high search volume and less competition (

Ante la llegada del décimo aniversario del lanzamiento del primer disco de Liquid Tension Experiment, el cuarteto prodigioso ha anunciado a través del siempre concurrido foro de MikePortnoy.com una serie de conciertos con motivo de esta significativa celebración. Dichos conciertos se celebrarán en Norteamérica durante el mes de junio, sumándose así a una primera fecha [...]

I reported earlier that Nine Inch Nails has made available the first of 4 parts of their new album Ghosts I-IV which is called Ghosts I and includes 9 songs.  Nine Inch Nails made these songs available for free on their web site and even posted them on bit torrent. They made their album available [...]

"A FEMALE RAT DEVELOPED A MAMMARY TUMOR SO LARGE SHE OFTEN USED IT AS A PILLOW"As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...LC Dave showed me this and straight away I posted it in an aspartame thread we have going then later though I should share it here too. I don't know how legit this is and I never did ask Dave how he came across this. I couldn't see any contact info and when checking their domain they were using domain proxy but, if this is true...According to this website the rats took aspartame to the human equivalent to less then 1 diet coke a day! :eek:Read about it yourself here: MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT 

If you visit there is a version of the Wardman Wire formatted for mobile phone use. I'd be interested in your comments on whether it works on different devices. To create this version, I have used a service called Mowser that simply reprocesses your RSS feed.

If you visit there is a version of the Wardman Wire formatted for mobile phone use. I'd be interested in your comments on whether it works on different devices. To create this version, I have used a service called Mowser that simply reprocesses your RSS feed.

In other reunion news, the prog-rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment (Mike Portnoy - drums, John Petrucci - guitar, Jordan Rudess - keyboards, and Tony Levin - bass) will embark on a short, 10th anniversary tour in June. Here are the...

By DAVID KOHN SIOLIM, India - At the faded one-story medical clinic in this fishing and farming village, people with depression and anxiety typically got little or no attention. Busy doctors and nurses focused on physical ailments - children with diarrhea, laborers with injuries, old people with heart trouble. Patients, fearful of the stigma connected to mental illness, were reluctant to bring up emotional problems. Last year, two new workers arrived. Their sole task was to identify and treat patients suffering depression and anxiety. The workers found themselves busy. Almost every day, several new patients appeared. Depressed and anxious people now make up "a sizable crowd" at the clinic, said the doctor in charge, Anil Umraskar. The patients talk about all sorts of troubles. "Financial d

The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary kept by the chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, revealing the man's most inner thoughts. Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was a symbol of Germany's Nazi regime and a twentieth-century icon of maniacal cruelty. His name has been synonymous with cynical, unscrupulous, and at times successful, propaganda. The life of Joseph Goebbels is far more complicated and disturbing than labels like "genius of spin" or "Reich Liar-General" would suggest. The chronicle shows how Goebbels continually "restaged" and reinvented himself -- from his early days as a radical "popular socialist" to his tragic end. The film lets Goebbels speak for himself through the diaries he kept without interrupti

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up the audio version of Marsha Pessl's 514 page book, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, and planned to enjoy it over the next three or four weeks of my daily commute to the office. I was unfamiliar with the book when I spotted it on the library shelf but it looked more interesting in audio than any of the others around, so I grabbed it and started listening to

I fell behind and did not get a chance to do anything on 3/6 and 3/7.  I did some things yesterday (3/8), and here they are: Posted 2 blog entries Left 1 blog comment Submitted several of my posts to social bookmarking sites to the tune of 94 times. Joined EntreCard Since I lost two days, I am going to try to make those up before the end of the experiment. By the way, this blog's link popularity is 1298. 

I fell behind and did not get a chance to do anything on 3/6 and 3/7.  I did some things yesterday (3/8), and here they are: Posted 2 blog entries Left 1 blog comment Submitted several of my posts to social bookmarking sites to the tune of 94 times. Joined EntreCard Since I lost two days, I am going to try to make those up before the end of the experiment. By the way, this blog's link popularity is 1298. 

I have been using the ING Electric Orange checking account for almost a year now and I have been very pleased. One downfall to being able to earn 2.25% on your checking account balance is that they don’t offer a regular paper check book, but you can fill out an electronic check form and they [...]

My electric bill came this week and I can now evaluate the results of my heating experiment designed to reduce the cost of my natural gas bill.  My previous gas bill was $103 and the current one was only $69 for a savings of $34.  Quite surprisingly my use of an electric space heater only [...]

Didn't do much this day either, but for some reason the Alexa rank went up to 671, 679.  Went up about 200,000. Posted 3 blog entries. There has been a lot going on, but I will make up for it on the weekend. 

Didn't do much this day either, but for some reason the Alexa rank went up to 671, 679.  Went up about 200,000. Posted 3 blog entries. There has been a lot going on, but I will make up for it on the weekend. 

Unconfirmed reports are coming in that a group of mad and moderately drunken German scientists working at a place called the Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch Gladbeck have not only succeeded in developing a refrigerator which has harnessed the sun’s energy to cool the little beer they seem to have left, the ammoniac-water absorption process they devised also suddenly went haywire and shot a massive gamma ray burst to Mars which then destroyed what little ozone layer was still available there and initiated Earth’s global warming on that planet, too. Immediately after the unverantwortliche (irresponsible) experiment and resulting Martian ozone vaporization took place, images of a massive avalanche consisting of melting ice and alien dust particles were captured by a US American spa

In this article, the International herald Tribune details how Metro Group, a retail chain in Germany, is placing small chips in garments that will communicate radio signals by way of portable readers. This technology (known as RFID) uses a tag that can be used for tracking or identifying the carrier. Currently, RFID technology is utilized [...]

I've been thinking it's about time to restart my site promotion experiment.  The whole point of the experiment was to see how much I could increase the visibility/traffic of a site in a week.  To that end, I have to have a starting point for the site.  Google Not Found MSN Search Not Found Yahoo! Not Found AltaVist Not Found I don't even rank in these search engines... The actual AltaVista rank is 884,578. Here we go...  Today is day #1 and I'll give a report at the end of the day.

I've been thinking it's about time to restart my site promotion experiment.  The whole point of the experiment was to see how much I could increase the visibility/traffic of a site in a week.  To that end, I have to have a starting point for the site.  Google Not Found MSN Search Not Found Yahoo! Not Found AltaVist Not Found I don't even rank in these search engines... The actual AltaVista rank is 884,578. Here we go...  Today is day #1 and I'll give a report at the end of the day.

I have hated Starbucks for a long time. They are symbolic of what I hate in the American food industry, a well marketed company with bad to mediocre product making the most money. I can't blame them for trying to be successful but as a true lover of food/beverages, I cringe at the thought of their coffee.Last Tues, Starbucks closed all 7100 stores across the country to re-educate their employees on how to make their drinks. I thought to myself, great, they are going to improve their product and I won't have to suffer during all the casual business meetings held at Starbucks. Today, I had some time to kill between lunch with my friend Dot and an acupuncture appointment, so I went to Starbucks to see what improvements they've made. I walked in, stood on line, bought my coffee, put my sugar a

In my effort to make Life Design an ongoing experiment, I actively tweak and optimize my thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately my life by forging new habits. The beauty of this system is that it is extremely simple, yet it delivers results that are life transforming. Life Design Experiment (LDE) is a system for being the type [...]

Disturbing pictures revealed today have shown how the Ku Klux Klan are preparing to increase their population through a massive birthrate explosion experiment amongst their followers.A secret undercover Global News Terrorists reporter has provided photgraphic evidence of this sickening experiment and we show it here to warn the world of this possible threat to world stability.Stay here for more news on this ongoing story.

I have three simple questions for the folks at the Marin Institute, Mother's Against Drunk Driving and the other anti-alcohol groups who threaten any politician who dares to question the effectiveness of the 21 year old drinking age:(1) In the more than two decades since the drinking age switch was forced upon states by the threat of the loss of federal highway matching funds has the new law kept 18-20 year olds from drinking?(2) Is it a safer environment now that the government has pushed 18-20 year old drinking underground, without controls or supervision, and caused otherwise law abiding young adults to break the law? (3) Is it fair to say to a small group of adult Americans that there are rights the rest of us can enjoy that they are not entitled to -- at the very same moment that the

The scope of the proposed book is to identify and emphasize the successful link between computational materials modeling as a simulation and design tool and its synergistic application to experimental research and alloy development. Compared to other areas in science where computational modeling has made substantial contributions to the development and growth of a particular field, computational materials modeling has been rather limited in its ability to insert itself as a major tool in materials design. The impression that computational modeling is simply an intellectual pursuit with no real life application has, in the long run, hindered the more widespread use of computational materials procedures by the mainstream materials community.The purpose of this book is to provide the average

A guy named Durate made a comment to my post on Obama, wondering why so many people were down on socialism. He sees socialism as much more democratic than other economic and political systems.Of course, socialism in its most pure form, communism, is a totally discredited economic and political theory except in the minds of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and countless tenured professors at American universities.But there is still a strong movement to make America more socialist, like in many European nations, and to make European Socialism more socialist.The idea of socialism is that the government knows best how to manage our lives. The notion is quite un-American.Throughout history the means of production have been controlled by a small ruling caste—whether it is priests, kings or the bourge

Clique aqui para baixar The Experiment (PC) por torrent. (1,38Gb)Jogos de adventure estão cada vez mais raros no PC e depois do intrigante "Indigo Prophecy", os fãs se perguntam quando irão encontrar outra trama de mistério pela frente. Talvez a resposta venha com "The Experiment", distribuído pela Dreamcatcher, que gosta de apostar no gênero, que faz sucesso especialmente na Europa.A narrativa é dividida entre dois personagens presos em um navio encalhado na costa. O que ambos estão fazendo ali?Trancafiado em uma moderna sala de controle por um desconhecido, o jogador deve utilizar os equipamentos à sua disposição, como câmeras de vigilância, detectores de calor e a intranet do navio, para tentar guiar uma mulher, a cientista Lea Nichols, até a saída de uma verdadeira forta

Since this blog was created, back in August 2007, there have been written many reviews about various websites, blogs, products and services I've considered them to be useful to you, my readers and visitors. But it've been quite a while since I haven't reviewed a blog of one of my fellow bloggers and friends. This is why today I will present you a blog called The Making Money Experiment, which belongs to Peter Leitsch, better known as Querblogger ( a very friendly and like-minded friend of mine from Germany..the country of Michael Ballack ( for those who are soccer fans :) ).Before going in to more details about his online journal, let's see how our friendship started. For sure, we first met many months ago, in 2007, via LinkReferral ( not only that this is a good traffic source, but you ca

I recently Dugg an article on Digg that was published on SearchEngineHerald.com and told the news that the Google experimental labs were experimenting with search engine rankings being influenced by user votes – just like the Digg model.Apparently, the experiment let’s you influence your search experience, by allowing you to modify search results, manually. The effect of the changes that you make would then be visible the next time that you search the same terms.According to SearchEngineHerald.com, “ It seems like Google wants to harness the power and knowledge of the huge Google userbase. Well, it might be a cheaper approach rather than hire thousands of people to manually do quality testing.”On the positive side, this will effect results by enabling those that searchers prefer to

I'm about to wipe everything off my iPod, and reload it (for housekeeping purposes). So, for the pure fun of it, here are the top 10 most-listened to tracks. I have arbitrarily decided to exclude anything from the Beatles' Love album, because I didn't listen to it more than once, though my nephews played it ad nauseam over Christmas. Where an artist was represented more than once, their

I made my first attempt at expanding the banded abstracts of the strata I'd been working with on a small scale into stitched works.  The watercolor part turned out great, but I didn't like the stitching as much.I used watercolor crayons on a 9x12 sheet and really played with pushing the color around when I added water, so developed some interesting effects.  I hadn't been able to get wash effects using crayons before.  I just needed more water and time.  The result is shown to the left.Then I cut the piece up to create backgrounds for a handful of art cards and a 5x7 picture.  I didn't have a plan for stitching for any of them. I just pulled out some silk threads that I had available and improvised.  I primarily thought about extending color into oth

Weight training suits/jackets (like a lifejacket but heck heavier) are commonly used to develop muscle and put on weight. Experimenting with the complexities, I realised that they would be the PERFECT to do the reverse. Extravagant at first thought, but think again. Is it really?Love it or hate it! The maths:Build muscles = Increased weight = Increased energy burntBuild muscles + Balanced diet = Weight loss + Yah!As explained in my post on building muscle to lose weight, the heavier you are, the more energy you use. Wearing a weight suit removes the building muscle part from the equation, making it all into one step. Wear the suit and you will lose weight in theory (with a reasonably balanced diet), or at the minimum stabilize your weight. Booty bonus time: As luck would have it, any weigh

This is a photo of a needle that we made float on water for a Girl Scout Experiment. We had to try more than once to make it float. This experiment demonstrates surface tension. Surface tension is "the ability of a substance to stick to itself. A drop of water falling from the rim of a faucet will stretch itself very thin before it drops off. Then it immediately forms a sphere and resists any

My backlog of ‘background’ projects seems to only keep growing and one of the casualties over the last several months has been kinematic experiments in PV3D.  Fortunately, Lee Felarca seems to be making some inroads in this area.  Check out a recent experiment from his blog - hope to see more from him over time. Maybe [...]

Last week I started my random stock picking experiment, to see how random stock picking compares in performance to that of professionals, my hypothesis being that it will do better than the majority.Here are this week's 10 random stocks with their closing prices on 1/25/08.Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) $32.94Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (ENH) $38.61AZZ Inc. (AZZ) $33.25Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. (ALSK) $12.73AMIS Holdings Inc. (AMIS) $7.71OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT) $8.6Royal Gold, Inc. (RGLD) $30.23Aircastle Ltd. (AYR) $22.5Valassis Communications, Inc. (VCI) $Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) $10.72I mentioned last week that I would use Stockalicious to track the stocks. I've decided against this, however, as half the time the widget wasn't loading. A few da

At some point in the (near) future, I will review various investing newsletters and investing gurus. For some time I've had a theory that most newsletters and gurus that have decent performance records owe them not to their investing acumen but to the number of their picks. Over time stocks as a group tend to go up. You pick enough stocks, and your performance shouldn't be bad. That is my hypothesis.In the late 1990s, there used to be something called Monkeydex. It was an index of stocks picked by a monkey, and its performance beat that of many professionals. Sadly, it appears that the index is no more. I've decided to create my own version. Its results will be one measure against which gurus and newsletters will be compared.Every weekend, I will randomly pick 10 stocks, and their performa

I have done this 3 or 4 times in my life…the longest was 2 days. I was not totally successful…I did say a word the last time I tried a day of silence and said more than one on prior attempts. It was not a failure (any time) – because you learn so much. It is a very valuable practice…one which Mahatma Gandhi did every Friday for many years. You quickly learn about automatic responses that you do not willfully initiate – saying hello, answering when someone says what time is it and you happen to know…things like that. You also find out how noisy the mind is…how quick we are to label things. As time passing not saying a word…the mind does slow down. The running commentary in the head ceases...in time. I would recommend trying a day or silence or two. It is a worth

In my first post I outlined six online development platforms and decided to make a test by creating the same page on all of them and see which ranks better.After ten days have passed, I have some preliminary results. Best to rank for hidden word 'lovtexmes' was weebly site and then the standalone site cutecoco.com.Best to rank for the whole keyword was cutecoco.com with around position 550 on google (yes terrible). But there seems to be another contender in this game and the things get really exciting.

On my search about if search engines like small site or big sites I found no satisfying answer. So I set up a little experiment on my own. I drive a lawyer directory with like about 20.000 pages for two years now. For search terms like “Rechtsanwalt Berlin” - I am aiming for city specific [...]

When the mood grabs me, I scroll down to the Shuffle function on the iPod and see where it takes me. Here's the first 5 that came up today: Joshua Radin - Someone Else's Life.mp3 A song from my album of 2006. I really like Radin's calming voice, on this track almost a whisper. Comparisons to Nick Drake are easy when a dude sings quietly, accompanied only by his guitar, but Radin certainly is

My colleague a.k.a my gf asked me to help her design a few samples of business cards for her interview. Then, i started to look for some brushes, fonts and guide and end up with three samples which i think can be labeled as “sucks”. Here i just post two samples because the other one [...]

Well, we are back from the holidays. I'm glad to be back. Happy New Year to everyone! Prior to the holidays, I mentioned the fact that I had just began to conduct an experiment, using the highly powered, and ever so popular social network, Facebook. I am happy to report that as of today, January 2, 2008, at 12:40 p.m., CST, the group has exploded to 6,421 members. One thing that I found interesting, which is very relevant, and I will explain this in more detail in a further post, is that once the group achieved 5,000 members, it took on an accelerated rate of growth. I expect to see an additional acceleration at 10,000 members, as well as 15, 000 members. I am anticipating that the group will reach 10,000 members by Saturday, January 5, 2008, and no later than Sunday, January 6, 2008.

Para falar sobre experiência profissional ou pessoal, ou seja, conhecimento abrangente adquirido durante a vida, use o substantivo “EXPERIENCE”. Reserve a palavra “EXPERIMENT” para os trabalhos científicos ou para se referir aos testes que são feitos deliberadamente para sabermos quais são os resultados possíveis. Neste caso, os sinônimos podem ser “ensaio”, “prova”, “tentativa”, “experimentação” etc. Cf. Mais Falsas Gêmeas “This is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes, and then we will decide,” Melandri said. (CNN) “É uma experiência. Vamos ver o que acontece para depois tomarmos uma decisão”, afirmou Melandri. Edwards talks about his experience in politics. (The Washington Post) Edwards fala sobre a sua experiência na política. I’m sorry. I’ve had bad experiences with single girls and cats. (USA Today) Desculpe. Tive experiências ruins com moças solteiras

This was emailed to me several years ago. IT is very interesting... It also makes you THINK...   Was our universe created by design?By Jim Holt Was our universe created? That is, was it brought into being by an entity with a mind? This is a question I began pondering after my recent inquiry into the end of the universe. (For some reason, cosmic mysteries are best contemplated in pairs.) It is the fundamental issue that separates religious believers, ranging from Deists to Gnostics to Southern Baptists, from nonbelievers. To many atheists, the very idea that our world could have been created by a conscious being seems downright nutty. How could anyone, even a god, "make" a universe? To get a better understanding of this matter, I thought it might be wise to consult the man who has done more than anyone else to explain how our universe got going. His name is Andrei Linde, and he is a physicist at Stanford University. (He's also an artist and an acrobat, but never mind

Posted by Rafe Needleman Last night on the official Google blog, Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, announced that Google is testing a publishing platform called Knol. It’s being compared to Wikipedia and Mahalo. While it’s a somewhat different take on knowledge collection, these comparisons are apt. From what we know so far, Knol is a wiki-like platform. Authors can create topics, and there are tools to interlink articles and content, but as Manber says, an article, or “knol,” is “just a Web page.” Where it differs from a wiki is its focus on the author. All knols will highlight who wrote them. Knol should make it easy to create nicely formatted reference pages. (Credit: Google) That small difference becomes dramatic when you put Knol alongside Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a collaborative system. There is no author listed on a wiki page because a page may have many authors (if you want to, you can divine who said what on the history

Yo home slice! That’s the way Finn is greeting people these days. Is anyone else’s kid speaking indecipherable jargon? I mean, this goes way beyond being psyched, and it’s a ginormous buzz kill to interpret. I’m experimenting with a new feature that should add the title of your latest blog post to your comment. Please comment and let’s see if it works or if the whole shebang crashes to bits. Thanks to Jennifer for this cool idea. I don’t have to tell you that the holidays are upon us. I realized that I totally forgot to put up a guide for spouses, and I’m not going to do it now. Instead, you men who are floundering, get ye to the jewelry counter posthaste! Before you go, check and see if your lover wears silver or gold. I say this only because MY lover once gave me a gift of silver jewelry, and while I acted appropriately grateful, inwardly I was miffed, as I never wear the stuff. It makes me look as if I might faint. Some of you may b

Guten Morgen und Hallo, mein Name ist Marianne und ich werde euch in den nächsten Wochen (?) von meinem Experiment mit Flohsamen berichten. Was sind denn Flohsamen werdet ihr euch jetzt sicherlich fragen, es ist die Alternative zu Leinsamen und bei uns in Deutschland noch nicht wirklich bekannt. Problem ist bei mir das ich ganz gerne ein paar Kilogramm abnehmen möchte , und zusätzlich Probleme mit der Verdauung habe. In den USA z.B. sind Flohsamen schon sehr bekannt. Was bewirken Flohsamen ? Sie quellen im Darm auf und füllen ihn (Ballaststoffe!) und regen die Verdauung an. Der Vorteil zu Leinsamen ist ganz klar das Flohsamen wenig Fett enthalten und nahezu keine Kalorien. 100 Gramm Leinsamen schlagen dagegen schon mit knapp 300 Kcal. zu buche. Eine genaue Beschreibung findet ihr bei Wikipedia => Flohsamen Wie benutzt man nun diese Flohsamen ? Ganz einfach man nehme einen EL der Samen und kippe Sie in ein großes Glas mit Wasser zum quellen, nach ein paar Mi

For the sheer joy of it, five more of the random best:Nicole Atkins - Maybe Tonight.mp3Oh, I kissed the iPod when it threw up this gem first. I had just finished putting together my Any Major Awards nominations, in which I already awarded Nicole Atkins, for being a viable alternative to the horribly overrated Amy Winehouse. This song sounds like... Petula Clark meets Blondie meets Abba. It's glorious pop. On other tracks, Atkins gets all soulful ("The Way It Is"), or goes into '80s throwback mode, sounding like the B-52s as sung by Sandie Shaw on Broadway ("Love Surreal" or "Brooklyn On Fire"). Absolutely marvellous, and so much better than schtick merchant Winehouse.Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet (live).mp3This is from the Farewell To The World live CD, which was recorded in 1996 and released ten years later. That album was one of those rarities among live sets, where the stage versions almost invariably eclipse the studio originals. And so it is with "Fall At Your Feet", one of

By: Martial Can we take a banned site - No pages indexed in google, yahoo or live and can we give it life and PR rank?That is what is being attempted over at www.omg-1-com and the big question is can it be done?Google, Yahoo and MSN Live are such big players in providing traffic the question is can a website survive if the big engines have banned it?Many sites get banned and even some deserve it. Yet there are many sites who receive a penalty or even a banning and they just dont know why. Most just receive a penalty and that means their site is still in the index but just not ranking well. The site owner just needs to seach for his url and if it is found you are not banned. If you cannot even find your url, well simply put "you're out!"But don't fret as there are ways to get back in, but first you have to appologise to the big G and others and file a reinclusion request. But first I would remove the tactics that got you banned in the first place, remove your hidden text and keyword s

It's fun, this iPod randomising thing. And, as Rol of the excellent Sunset Over Slawit blog pointed out in a comment (I do like comments), my iPod does have good taste. So here's today's lot, though it's a 8-track experiment, iPod having suggested two songs I just recently posted, by Josh Rouse and Miles Davis, and Ingrid Michaelson's "Breathing Again" which I just recently downloaded from the fineDon't burn the day away blog, whose thunder I didn't want to steal.Foo Fighters - Statues.mp3I love Foo Fighter's new album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. It might well have replaced The Colour And The Shape as my favourite Foo album, even if the new set has no "Everlong" on it. Clearly, my iPod loves Foo Fighters as well, having featured Grohl's lot in the first random experiment. "Statues" is turning out to be one of the best songs on the album, a fine piano driven number which however reminds me of some other song I cannot place. The line "we're just ordinary people" is