5 Things You Didn’t Know: Starbucks
2007-12-10 19:28:17
Written by Ross Bonander
Here are five things you didn’t know about Starbucks
They are largely responsible for turning a diner’s 50-cent cup of joe into a travesty, or at the very least, a pedestrian pursuit. Their “stores” seem to be everywhere, and they’re populated by coffee snobs on both sides of the counter. They appear either indifferent to, or beyond the reach of, fluctuating economies. They are accused of everything from the annoying (market saturation) to the serious (anti-competition), yet Starbucks — the world’s biggest coffee peddler — keeps on peddling.There may be no better example of the company’s imperialist domination — and the scorn they sometimes inspire — than the shocking installation of a Starbucks store in Beijing’s Forbidden City in 2000. You can’t blame Starbucks for salivating over the real estate; almost 9 million people visited the former home to 24 different Chinese emperors in 20
50 UnGrinchy Christmas Ideas for 2007
2007-12-21 12:20:20
This article was written and recommended by Andy Havens, the Author of Tinkerx. He wrote a post called The UnGrinch 25 last year; a list of ideas on how to keep the fun, spirit and joy in your holiday season. In order to challenge himself, He was upping the ante this year. Let’s see if he can come up with 50 ways to beat the Holiday Humbugs. So… away we go.
Craft Ideas
1. Make a family calendar. Pick a theme or use pics of your family. Fill it with all the important family dates; birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Include a weird or interesting events from Chase’s Annual Events. You can make monthly calendars using MS Publisher, or the ever-free and wonderful Open Office. Good to have, good to give.
2 Create your own ornaments. My favorite, as a kid, was to take a styrofoam shape (bell, star, even a simple ball), and stick a bajillion sequins to it with pins. Pretty. Shiny. And it keeps kids busy for hours while you do other holiday nonsense. Another ornament idea (bonus!) is
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20 More Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle
2007-12-25 11:31:40
Written by Sawse - Stir it Up!
What is the most critical element to taking amazing photographs? There are a number of candidates including lighting, focus, timing and camera type, but one device has been at the heart of producing some of the funniest and strangest pictures around: proper angle. Sorted into three categories, here are some awesome examples of images taken at just the right angle! If you enjoy these, you may want to look at the others in the series: 20 Photos at the Exact Right
Angle
and 25 Photos at the Exact Right Time. These also follow in the rich tradition of The 7 Giants in the Streets and The Amazing Little People of London.
Illusions of Overlap: perhaps the most common trick, usually used to comic effect in perfect-angled photographs, is the use of overlap to create an illusion of an impossible, unlikely or entirely strange set of circumstances. These kinds of images are easy to stage, it’s catching candid ones or creating compellingly staged one
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20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer
2008-03-11 11:38:12
Written by six revisions
As a web developer, if you’re to be successful, you have to have a constant yearning for learning new things. In an industry that evolves rapidly, you’ve got to keep up or you risk being obsolete and outdated. Keeping up with trends, weeding out the fads, and adopting new techniques to your [...]
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, Developer
Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell’s 1984
2008-03-13 11:07:56
Written by Alternative Reel
#10 - TRAMPLED UPON
“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow [...]
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Top 5 Games You’re Better at Drunk
2008-03-16 10:57:23
Written by Jenn Frank
An Only Slightly Less Stupid Way to Spend St. Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day has a lot going for it (funny hats, shamrocks, elves), but mostly it’s a holiday set aside so that people, Irish or not, can get hammered. And although we’d never disparage getting stupid on green-tinted beer and passing out [...]
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The 10 Legal Commandments of Photography*
2008-03-18 10:25:18
Written by photojojo
Say you’re out for a photographic stroll, taking pictures of that cool old power plant on the edge of town. Suddenly seventy security guards swarm you and demand you hand over your camera.
“What is this,” you ask yourself, “a Michael Moore movie?”
You’re sure you haven’t done anything wrong, but you don’t know whose [...]
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The 10 Products Only Douchebags Buy
2008-03-20 11:13:49
Written by Jason Arango
There are some things that scream out “I’m a huge douchebag!” in a way that makes you stop, take in what you’ve just witnessed, and then give a silent nod of confirmation that “yes, that is one giant douchebag.” These are ten items so intrinsically douchey they could take even the most [...]
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3 Powerful Safari Features That Few People Use
2008-03-22 13:32:06
Written by Daniel Miessler
Safari
is an excellent browser for many reasons; its speed, clean aesthetics and ease of use are attractive from the outset. But there are a few extremely attractive and lesser known features that people should be taking advantage of as well.
Browsing and Search Snapback
Search snapback allows you to instantly jump back to [...]
10 Tips and Tricks for Private BitTorrent Sites
2008-03-24 10:30:25
Written by sharky
The first thing to notice when you join a private BitTorrent site is the eye-popping quality of the torrents. Each one is carefully culled, hand-picked through a strict moderation process. However, before you start hammering away on that download link - here are a few things you need to know.
On private torrent sites, [...]
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25 Ways to Simplify Your Life with Kids
2008-03-27 10:47:34
Written by Zenhabits Photo courtesy of Sukanto Debnath
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful.” - Charles Osgood
Anyone who has kids knows that any life with kids is going to be complicated, at least to some degree. From extra laundry to bathing and cooking and shopping and driving and school and [...]
5 Unconventional Places to Scout for Web Work
2008-03-29 11:20:17
Written by sixrevisions
If you’re a freelancer or a full-timer looking for additional income, there’s a variety of places you can go to seek for project-based work.
There’s a ton of websites geared specifically for freelance workers, such as All Freelance Directory and Guru.com. Many of these sites do, however, charge you a subscription fee to access [...]
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, Scout
The 101 most useful websites
2008-03-31 20:12:34
Written by telegraph
TECHNOLOGY
1 Google
www.google.com
[...]
The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class
2008-04-03 11:04:22
Written by S Peter Davis
High school was hard enough, what with all the video games and boobies to distract us from our homework. What makes it even harder is having to unlearn all of the stuff they taught us in elementary school that turned out to be utter bullshit.
To this day you can even hear [...]
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Top 5 Humiliating On Stage Spills
2008-04-05 11:41:31
Written by lets get tight
Being a performer can be a demanding job. When you are playing a dynamite live show, all eyes are on you, watching your EVERY move. Sometimes gravity can get the best of you and in one second you could go from swaying to “Sweet Child O’ Mine” to getting a nice [...]
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10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die
2008-04-07 10:32:46
Written by Alistair Croll This article is from gigaom
We oft en think of the Internet
as a platform for unfettered global communication, where information flows freely, innovators can launch new applications at will, and everyone can have a voice. But it’s unlikely that our children’s Internet will look anything like what we have now.
How might [...]
5 Myspace Morons
2008-04-09 11:20:25
Written by Profiles Blog
Money, We all Want it, But those who Have it sure as heck don’t Photograph themselves standing in the mirror holding a couple hundred bucks with the caption “ima rich azz nigga”:Here are todays Money hungry Profile Gansta’s:
This dude with a high school education, claims to make $250,000 a year. Pretty impressive [...]
Why Superman Will Always Suck…
2008-04-10 11:31:45
Written by Anthony Burch
The title is all the intro you should need.
Indestructibility
It almost goes without saying, but if your hero cannot possibly be killed in any instance which does not somehow involve an incredibly rare space-rock, then you’ve got one boring-ass hero. It’s sort of like watching Neo fight all the agent Smiths in The [...]
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, Will Always
5 Tips For A Green Vacation
2008-04-12 11:30:20
Written by environmentalgraffiti
Ah, Summer is almost upon us, and that means most American families are plotting madly to get out of town for a week.
Image from Kaydee did on Flickr
Never mind that the economy is in the tank, or that you’ll use just under half of your vacation days at [...]
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Dear Dumb Ass (An 11 year olds note to Geek Squad) view!
2008-04-15 20:02:27
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users
2008-04-17 10:53:21
Written by Rami Taibah
Switching to Linux
can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first [...]
5 Best DVD Ripping Tools
2008-04-18 11:24:45
Written by lifehacker
Whether you want to watch a movie on your iPod or back up your too-easily-scratched DVDs, DVD ripping is a mysterious realm for many. Even those in-the-know find it difficult to keep up with the best tools for the job, especially in the face of increased copy protection. On Tuesday we asked you [...]
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If Juno Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
2008-04-20 12:11:53
Written by Rod Hilton This article is come from cracked.com
On Saturdays, we ask some of our favorite sites on the web to fill in forus. You get to learn about an awesome site you may not have heardof, and we get to watch cartoons in our boxers. Today we’re bringingyou an abridged version of the [...]
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20+ Vista Features that Harvest User Data for Microsoft
2008-04-21 11:22:00
Written by Marius Oiaga
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista
Features and Services Harvest
User Data for Microsoft
- From your machine!
Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program [...]
16 Lies Mothers Tell Their Kids
2008-04-23 11:02:24
Written by Mothers
DayCentral.com
1. “Stop cracking your knuckles…it will give you arthritis!”
For some odd reason, young boys love cracking their knuckles. Whether it’s the sound of the crack or the feeling it makes, we feel relieved when one cracks a knuckle. After getting all that finger stress out, Mom smacked you upside the head, reminding you [...]
5 Appliances That Might Be Smarter Than You Are
2008-04-24 11:13:07
Written by Kyle Roderick This article is come from Popular Mechanics
Before long, RFID tags in the kitchen will be reminding you when it’s time to buy more milk and eggs. Hitting the market now, however, are brilliant everyday home appliances that can perform next-gen tasks with everything from anti-snoring tech to remote-control flushing.
The Brainiac Dishwasher [...]
The 5 Best Mass Transit Systems in the World
2008-04-25 10:56:06
Written by Environmental Graffiti
As we all put our thinking caps on for this “save the environment” thing, and Americans begin to scream under the weight of rising fuel costs, one of the best ways around leaving a giant carbon footprint, or paying an arm and a leg, is to take the bus. Or the train. [...]
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2008-04-27 20:21:30
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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
2008-04-28 11:23:40
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 [...]
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50 (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos
2008-04-29 10:49:06
Collected by smashingmagazine
Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts - they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot button. Taking excellent pictures is damn hard as you need to find a [...]
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