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Monday, August 18th, 2008Found on the famous Ms Fifikins site… A new meme, all about food, that comes from Very Good Taste which is a great blog about food and stuff!
Here’s what you do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would [...]
Is the post 9/11 World Turning against Photography ?
Monday, August 11th, 2008Photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the
100 Push Up Challenge :: Join Me And Win
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008100 Push Up Challenge
One Hundred Push Ups is a site dedicated to providing a progressive push up training program that will have you doing 100 consecutive push ups in just six weeks, no matter how many you can do today.
Derek Semmler dot com is running a 100 Push Up Challenge - Join Me And Win.
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BBC languages
Thursday, July 17th, 2008BBC Languages
is a website from the BBC that provides language courses for several
popular languages such as German, French, Spanish and Chinese. Each language has a portal that is used as the
main hub for that language. From here, students can get a quick take on some phrases in the selected language.
Most of the content [...]
Burma - Before and After
Friday, May 16th, 2008At the moment there doesn’t seem to be a lot we can do, until the local rulers decide to allow aid in, without stealing it and without using it for propaganda purposes. However, once NGO’s and other agencies are allowed to operate fully in the areas affected by Cyclone Nargis, they will need all the [...]
MySpace - You can checkout, but you can never leave
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Mathew Moran has problems cancelling his MySpace accounts
I’ve had two myspace profiles for awhile - one as an individual and one as a band. Recently, for various reasons, I decided to get rid of both. Getting rid of my personal was interesting because their instructions are incorrect. I would say this is an oversight but [...]
Music producer Steve Albini explains the record business
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008The Problem With Music is a famous rant about the economics of the music industry that Steve Albini (most widely known for having produced Nirvana’s “In Utero.”) wrote years ago. While it shows its age, there’s still plenty to learn, especially the accounting methods that show how a band that sells 250k records can [...]
What Freelancers Can Learn from Evel Knievel
Monday, January 21st, 2008back in my callow youth, I was a bit of a fan of Evel Knievel.
I really enjoyed this fun, surprisingly thoughtful post. Its a list of 10 things about Evel Knievel that anyone can use, ranging from He wasn’t the best, he was the best known to It wasn’t work that was his [...]
Spokeo Social Network Tracker
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Spokeo - One tool to keep track of all your friends from over 30 major networks. No matter whether they are on Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Flickr or Myspace, Spokeo will find and monitor their profiles for you. As soon as there is something new on their accounts you will see it.
Again, Spokeo is [...]
Merge two imperfect photos to create the perfect shot
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Have a look at Freeware Genius and download Group Shot from Microsoft.
This cool product takes a series of photos taken of the same people and merges them to create the perfect shot; If you want to take a shot of two people and on one pic only one of them is smiling, and in the [...]
