Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Frightening Insects

Here are some amazing pictures of insects up close and personal. They're pretty scary when looking at them this way!


The pincers on an earwig.


60X magnified grasshopper.


Bumblebee.


Dust mites at 350X.


Common flea at 250X.


Pharoah ant at 230X.


Human head louse at only 80X (Yikes!)


Fruit fly at 350X.


House spider at 20X.


Mosquito.


La Cucaracha at 120X.


House fly.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Open Courseware

Open courseware is college content that is free to the public and available online. If you want to become a master of something (without actually getting the degree), use open courseware. It's a great concept. I've compiled a list of some of the better sites I could find.

1. MIT - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

2. JHU School of Public Health - http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

3. UC Berkeley - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

4. Tufts - http://ocw.tufts.edu/

5. Notre Dame - http://ocw.nd.edu/

6. Carnegie Mellon - http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Man Vs. Wild to Offer "Clarity" in future episodes

...just found out that the "reality" show Man vs. Wild was misleading its viewers by staging scenes and even allowing Bear to stay in hotels on some nights. The show's creators say that the show was merely an instructional series (not a documentary) but in the future, they will make the show more transparent. Well, so much for it being my favorite show: http://tcorlen.blogspot.com/2007/07/man-vs-wild-my-new-favorite-show.html.

Here is the story about it at BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6913108.stm

Monday, July 23, 2007

Blind Kid That Can See

This is amazing.. this kid and see and he's not just legally blind. He actually is completely blind (he has no eyes because of an illness in early childhood).

God's Inbox

Click picture for expanded view:

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

New Phrases for 2007

SALAD DODGER - An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

SWAMP-DONKEY - A deeply unattractive person.

TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a Project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS - The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM - An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

SITCOMs - Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

SINBAD - Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

AEROPLANE BLONDE - One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decis ions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.

GOING FOR A McSHIT - Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the crapper. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

AUSSIE KISS - Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.

OH - NO SECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').

GREYHOUND - A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

JOHN NY-NO-STARS - A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of\n training.

MILLENNIUM DOMES - The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.

MONKEY BATH - A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

MYSTERY BUS - The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

MYSTERY TAXI - The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead. (This is similar to the old school phrase "coyote ugly").

BEER COAT - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am .

BEER COMPASS - The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.

BREAKING THE SEAL - Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.

TART FUEL - Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

PICASSO BUM - A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got 4 buttocks.

Friday, July 13, 2007

How to Earn $0.03 Per Day Blogging

We've all read the articles and seen the posts on how to earn a 6 figure income blogging ($100K/yr amounts to $273.97 a day) but very few people discuss the low end of the scale. Therefore, as a public service, I'm going to provide the secrets. I'm going to give you 10 easy steps for earning 3 cents in a single day.

Here is a screenshot of my actual earnings from "yesterday":

EDITOR NOTE: I removed the image as I forgot that you can't post stats, only totals!

1. Send out your posts to only a few friends that probably only read your post quickly and then close down the browser without clicking any ads.

2. Digg your own post but only have a couple of other diggers Digg your post so that it never becomes popular.

3. Read other blogs about making money blogging and here is the important part: day-dream about your blog making tons of money, too.

4. Have only a few people visit your blog each day.

5. Change your blog name so that everyone (all 10 of them) that knew your blog name before now gets links that don't work. (...also realize that all your previous digg links will no longer work either).

6. Put links to blogs that actually make money on your blog and point everyone to those sites.

7. Log into Adsense multiple times each day. When you see that you've earned $0.01, go to digg.com and to see if someone actually dugg your post. This will motivate you to continue blogging each and every day.

8 Have so little content on your blog that your Adsense ad always reads "Hurricane Relief Fund".

9. Accidentally "bury" your main blog URL on DIGG because you originally submitted an incorrect link. This relates to #5.

10. Keep your motivation up. Earning $0.03 per day is hard work. Based on an 8 hour day, you're pulling down $0.00375 per hour. At this rate, you need to wait 9 years and 2 months to get that $100 check from Google.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Brooke Shields, What Happened?

Is it just me or does Brooke Shields now look like a dude? I used to be a big fan of hers back in her younger days but I'm not so sure anymore.

Weird Animals

Here are a bunch of pictures of strange animals.

This animal is a crossbreed between a zebra and horse. The father of "Eclyse" is a horse from Italy, where the crossbreed filly was born in 2006, her mother is a zebra from the Safari park.


This rare two-toned lobster was found in Maine. The lobster is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Mount Desert Oceanarium staff members say the odds of finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million.



In this photo, a hog is shown to have weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. If claims of the animal's size are true, it would be larger than "Hogzilla", the huge hog killed in Georgia in 2004.



Here is a picture of a six-legged calf, born a farm bear Litchfield, Neb., April 29, 2007. The calf also has both male and female reproductive organs.


This March 2007 photo, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a 44-inch, 60-pound female shortraker rockfish, which was caught 2,100 feet below the surface, south of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.

A New Zealand fisherman kneels next to a giant squid believed to have been caught in Antarctica's Ross Sea. The giant squid, known as a colossal squid (scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) and thought to be the largest squid ever found anywhere in the world, weighed an estimated 990 pounds, 330 pounds heavier than the next biggest specimen ever found.



Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Syrian family keep hyenas as pets

July 11 - Hassan Shwekani is a professional dog trainer who captures and tames wild hyenas.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Monday, July 9, 2007

How Good is Tiger? ...just ask Ernie!

This is a great story by David Feherty talking about Tiger's amazing skills! Golfers and non-golfers alike will enjoy this story.

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Sunday, July 8, 2007

Man vs. Wild (My New Favorite Show)

This show on Discovery is absolutely incredible. Bear Grylls is the host and he gets dropped off in remote areas and is forced to survive. He is forced to do some crazy crap to survive! Here is a video of one of the shows:


Online Videos by Veoh.com

Friday, July 6, 2007

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn't sexist, and blonds are more attractive. Articles that are about "truth" and not about political correctness are great reads... The link to the article is here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml



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Monday, July 2, 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007

VIDEO: The Bullshit Button

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Disposable Phone Numbers

Here is a site where you can get disposable phones to give out without anyone having knowledge of your real phone number. It's pretty ingenious actually. If you are interested, check it out at www.numbr.com.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Only 1 Serving of Beer Allowed at Company Picnic

What do you do if you are only allowed one serving of beer at the company picnic? Here's an idea:


Friday, June 15, 2007

Half-Convertible, Half Speedboat: Under $100K

Paul Revere might have a problem if he were called upon to go all lantern-in-the-steeple and warn of the approach of this new vehicle from England’s Gibbs Technologies. One if by land? Two if by sea? Neither’s quite right in this case—maybe three lanterns would be best.



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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Michelle Wie Criticism

Wie is taking a ton of heat for leaving the Ginn Championship because of a "hurt" wrist. She's not ready for prime time yet...



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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The Most AMAZING Awesome [PIC] EVER

Title says it all



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How to deal with the police

Assert your rights my brothers and sisters. Be professional & courteous but firm! Here is a good article about how to assert your rights when dealing with police officers. Now, I realize that police (and firefighters, etc.) put their lives on the line almost every day but sometimes, they abuse their power. That is where they cross the line....



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Friday, June 1, 2007

Friday, May 25, 2007

"Let Are Kids Walk"

Parents protesting the school's decision to disallow participation in the graduation ceremony for those who failed the necessary standardized tests shed a little light on why they are in this predicament to begin with. Not the best protest sign in this case.



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Get your mob name

this mob generator will tell you what your mob name is.



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Monday, May 21, 2007

Find the Stars!!

Elegantly simple game of finding the stars. Excellent interaction design. Review by Jayisgames.com.find the star in each stage to move on. this game is interesting and somewhat odd at the same time.



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Friday, May 18, 2007

Oops.. there's a barrier there.

HOLY CRAP!!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac0_1179427280&p=1


5-10-07: A single-car crash at a Garden State Parkway toll plaza has claimed the life of a driver. New Jersey state police say the driver of a car struck a concrete "bullnose" between two toll booths on the southbound side of the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza, near Somers Point, NJ, and caught fire.

Does he get an EZ-Pass credit since he didn't make it all the way throught the toll?

Florida bureaucrats force restaurant to remove 'joke' restroom signs

McGuire's Irish pub and restaurant has signs on its bathroom doors that say "Ladies" in big print and then "This is the men's room" in smaller print. A father complained to the state after someone walked in on his teenage daughter. The state then threatened to close the establishment, which has, Feasting, Imbibery & Debauchery written on its door.



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Hilarious impressionist on the Late Show with David Letterman

Rob Magnotti performs some great impressions during impressionist week on Letterman's show. Impressions include Ray Romano, Bill Cosby, Nicolas Cage, etc.This guy is good!



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VW Golf GTI W12 650 Concept (With Video!)

At the Worthersee 2007 meet for VW enthusiasts, Volkswagon pulled the wraps off the GTI W12 650 concept. A 6.0L biturbo 12 cylinder sits behind the front seats, dishing 650 horses to the rear wheels. Top speed is said to be over 200 mph, and it goes from 0-62 in 3.7 seconds. Video of its public debut is included.



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Thursday, May 17, 2007

OMG! What a freakin' mess!

Check this video out of a woman who has OCD and a man who refuses to clean up after her (good for him!)

Men and Women ARE Different

Why is there such a push in recent years to say that men and women are the same? We all know that they are NOT. I can say this without feeling like a chauvinist. Aside from the obvious physical differences, men and women (in general) just think differently. While there are exceptions to every rule, most men tend to thing similarly to other men and most women tend to think similarly to other women. Without question this is true... But why? Why are men from Mars and women from Venus? Why does your girl "just need to spend time with you" but you get excited when she'll be out of town for a couple of days. Why when girls get a little emotional it's okay but when men get emotional, they are "pyscho"? Why do women get away with more things in society (especially attractive women)? Why do men tend to earn more at a job? Why do men value their job more and almost require the interaction that a job entails?

What does everyone think?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

How to make money...

There is a great blog I found that talks about some really good, no-nonsense ways to save and make money.

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/

It's refreshing to see some very similar ideas to the ones I have in regards to money.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

VA Tech School Shootings, How is it possible?

How is it possible that a single gunman with only handguns can kill so many people? I think our society has taught us to be passive and we just sit back and watch things happen. How many times have you heard that if you are being robbed to just give the robber everything he wants?? Without question, the VT shootings are terrible and a huge tragedy. However, how can so many people just sit back and watch others get shot and killed? Couldn't people band together and bum rush this guy after the first couple of shots? This guy just spells trouble.

Violence in our society seems to become more prevalent all the time. Maybe we should start teaching our citizens to actively defend themselves.





Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Was Simon rolling his eyes at Chris' comment?

Apparently, on Idol last night, Simon rolled his eyes last night after Chris made a comment about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. The producers say that Simon's "roll" wasn't in response to Chris' "shout out".

See story here at drudgereport.com.