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American dream, what is it now?

gurel — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:24:09 +0000

What is the definition of American dream for you nowadays and is it any different than what it was before the economic meltdown?

Halldor Orri goal celebration

gurel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:22:16 +0000

When Halldor Orri scores a great goal he decides to go fishing and catch on his mate Johann Laxdal or Johann the salmon. The game was Stjarnan against Fylkir in the top league in Iceland and the goal was the winning goal in extra time.

Free Tech Support from SAM’s Club

gurel — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:41:31 +0000

The wholesaler now offers its members free tech support on electronic devices, even if they weren’t purchased at Sam’s Club. Experts are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide assistance with installation, setup, and troubleshooting on computers, TVs, home-theater systems, digital music players, and more. When control-alt-delete just doesn’t cut it, [...]

Tony Horton talks Physical Fitness of Military Recruits on CSPAN in Capitol Hill

gurel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:10:51 +0000

Tony Horton, fitness expert, celebrity trainer, and creator of the P90X Home Fitness System, talked about the nation’s obesity epidemic and its impact on declining fitness levels among U.S. military recruits. After his remarks he led a fitness demonstration in which members of the audience, clothed in exercise gear, joined him in an exercise routine.

Tony Horton talks Physical Fitness of Military Recruits on CSPAN in Capitol Hill.

The iPhone 4 Antenna Song

gurel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:49:23 +0000

Jingle writer Jonathan Mann’s newest song is about the iPhone 4 antenna.

Song A Day Website.

How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They’re infectious, study finds

gurel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:25:57 +0000

Researchers at Harvard University and MIT wanted to see if a mathematical model developed to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases such as SARS and foot-and-mouth disease could also apply to the spread of happiness – and found that it worked.

How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They’re infectious, study finds.

RunPee.com

gurel — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:48:34 +0000

Sick of missing a movie’s best scenes because you had to hit the loo? RunPee.com tells you the best times during a movie that you can run and pee. Skip to the loo and still follow the movie you are seeing.

m.RunPee.com is also available for those who would like to access RunPee.com from their Blackberry, or practically any other mobile phone. m.RunPee.com is a simple HTML version of the website that will let you navigate to the movie you are seeing and view the PeeTimes.

Floppy Disk Password Hider

gurel — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:24:04 +0000

5-Minute Project idea from popular science magazine:

To stash your passwords where no one will ever look
1. Carefully open up the floppy’s plastic casing, and remove the round disk inside
2. Write your passwords on one-inch-square pieces of paper. Glue them to the edge of one side of the disk
3. Reassemble the casing, and slide open the metal piece to view the passwords whenever you need them

NBC Nightly News 6.3.2010 Jupiter takes hit from asteroid

gurel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:25:31 +0000

NBC Nightly News 6.3.2010 news segment. Jupiter takes hit from asteroid or comet. Earth is saved.

fillanypdf.com

gurel — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:34:54 +0000

Final death knell for the fax? fillanypdf.com lets you upload PDF forms to the web, where you and others can fill them out and digitally sign them, even if they don’t already have text entry built in. The site also supports other formats like jpg and gif.