13 Things Your Car Mechanic Won’t Tell You 2008-06-12 12:28:12 Interviews by Fran Lostys
Real mechanics give you the inside scoop on the tricks of the trade.
1. “Watch out for scare tactics. Admonitions like ‘I wouldn’t drive this another mile’ should be viewed with suspicion.” 2. “Check for ASE [National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence] or AAA [American Automobile Association] certification, as well as a state Read more:Mechanic
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cell Phones 2008-06-13 11:05:18 Written by Mobilecommandos
Just when we feel comfortable enough to say “wow, cell phones have really changed the way we operate,” things get even weirder. Here are 10 facts about cells from around the world that show the scale and style of our contemporary global use; sometimes for bad, but sometimes for real, cool, innovative good.
1. [...] Read more:Probably
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5 Most Depressed Comics Characters 2008-06-14 11:11:20 Written by Cory Cavin
As a wee child I remember spending every Sunday poring over the lively colored newspaper, reading up on my kid comedy that was ‘the funny papers’. As an obsessive compulsive lad I forced myself to read all the hilarity laden newsprint, (and still in my childhood mind wondered why I was reading [...] Read more:Depressed
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10 Xbox LIVE Achievement Commandments 2008-06-15 11:42:09 Written by Dick Ward
It’s time to face facts. No matter how much players may protest their hatred of achievements, there’s a small part of everyone that warms up inside when they do something really clever and are rewarded for it. The Xbox
360’s achievements is a very cool way to deliver these rewards to players [...] Read more:Achievement
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15 Browser Add Ons. No One Knows Them All! 2008-06-16 21:28:53 Written by nethackz
When it comes to InterNet(Hackz), the first thing which comes to our mind is the browser which we use to access the internet. In my case it’s Firefox but I’m sure there are people who prefer to use various other available browsers.
Those days are gone [...]
5 LEGO Video Games That Will Never Happen 2008-06-17 11:46:47 Written by The-Minus World
With the recent success of LEGO video games, we at the-minusworld decided to come up with five movies we want to see get the LEGO treatment. Enjoy, because these are definitely never going to happen.
LEGO No Country For Old Men
How often does a game let you play as unlucky trailer trash, a [...] Read more:Games
7 Ways to Use iPhone to Impress Women 2008-06-19 11:23:40 Written by James Wax
When iPhone
was first released, just having one was enough to draw attention and establish hipness with beautiful women. Remember when girls crowded around for a demonstration of the magical touchscreen or to watch YouTube videos in the palm of your hand?
Their eyes widened with childlike wonder as you described the beauty [...] Read more:Impress
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20 Ways to Attack Shyness 2008-07-02 11:50:52 Written by thinksimplenow
Photo by Jordan Fraker. See more of his work here.
Can you remember the last time you stepped into a room full of strangers and felt that self-conscious and awkward feeling rush over you? Or that heart thumping moment when you wanted to ask someone on a date, but were too shy to [...]
15 Dumbest Things You Hear at Work 2008-08-01 11:55:45 Written by Experience Project
I want to oint out the most ridiculous work sayings or cliches that really get on my nerves. It’s as if taking something simle and hrasing it in an idiotic and often nonsensical way has become a key art of fitting into cororate culture. I [...]ShareThis
13 things that do not make sense 2008-08-16 14:03:24 Written by sixside
1 The placebo effect
DON’T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
This is the placebo effect: [...]ShareThis Read more:things
25 Truly Stunning HDR Pictures 2008-09-07 13:09:38 Collected by Digital Picture Zone
Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly stunning pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion.
“In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and [...] Read more:Stunning
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6 TV Shows That Should Never Have Been Canceled 2008-09-25 11:51:00 Written by NothingCorporate.com
It’s weird to think that a show can have millions of avid fans and still be seen as a loser to the TV execs. While things that make our eyes bleed like “What I Like About You” or that Dawson’s River show (river, stream, creek, whatever) seemed to run on forever, here’s our [...]
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