Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Convert an Image to a Text File

Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Convert picture to text. Ascii Art. ascii photo, ascii image, ascii convertion, asciiart, ascii picture, convert image text, image to text, image to ascii etc
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Women In Art

This YouTube clip morphs many traditional female portraits over 3 minutes.
Women In Art

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines

Online search is now a multi-billion dollar industry, with Google alone grossing over $3.5 billion in profits last year. It's no wonder why so many newcomers are hopping on the search bandwagon, hoping to become the next Google. And those new search engines that may stand the best chance to become the next Google all share one common element — the use of Web 2.0 technology that they hope will increase search result relevance.

Here are 25 such engines. Some offer functionality that's slowly making its way into traditional search engines. Others further the attempt to traverse the invisible Web and index other previously unsearchable research sources.

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines

Top 100 Scariest Movie Scenes

Some films aren't scary by design, but happen to have creepy and shocking moments that deserve special recognition. So enjoy this list and have fun discovering a bunch of new movies to see!
Top 100 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.
26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity

A Handbook for Life. Now, is there any handbook that can be a guide to every single person? Of course not. This is just a list of tips that will help many people in life — some of them common-sense tips that are often forgetten about. Consider this guide a reminder.
Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity

Monday, May 28, 2007

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

37 Sources Of Inspiration

Did you ever feel lost in space, trying to gather your thoughts, get motivated to write for your blog, design a website, come up with logo ideas, find a perfect object for your photo shoot, simply be inspired to live your life to its fullest? Here is your one in a lifetime chance to swim in the ocean of inspiration filled from 37 sources.
37 Sources Of Inspiration

7 Ways to Send HUGE Files

Gmail users can now send up to 20MB of attachments to each other. Here are 7 services that let you send files of more than 500MB.
7 Ways to Send HUGE Files

Self-assessed Health in Australia

This article presents a brief overview of how Australians assess their own health status. Factors examined in relation to self-assessed health include age, sex, socioeconomic status, health conditions, weight, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking.
Self-assessed Health in Australia: A Snapshot, 2004-05

Sleep Adjustment Tips - Gain Time!

Rise and Shine: No matter what time you to go to bed - you're alarm should go off each morning at the same time, 7 days per week. Gain an hour a day, that's over 10 days per year. Read on for other ideas...
Sleep Adjustment

Amazing Houses

Photos of interesting and odd houses...
Amazing things: Houses from around the World

Ikea Job Application

A funny cartoon...Ikea Job Application

7 Ways to Build the Exercise Habit

This is a post from the author of StrongLifts.com. If you enjoy this post, check out his site.
7 Ways to Build the Exercise Habit

Sunday, May 27, 2007

iPhone Hype

A study from Strategy Analytics has found that 90 percent of handset owners rate Apple’s iPhone as being superior to existing mobile phones. This despite the rather pertinent facts that the iPhone has not yet gone on sale and none of those questioned would have used an iPhone.
Study Finds 90% of Handset Owners Believe iPhone Hype

Venus Near the Moon

The two brightest objects in the night sky appeared to go right past each other last week. On the night of May 19, Earth's Moon and the planet Venus were visible in the same part of the sky - Venus Near the Moon

Friday, May 25, 2007

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Playing Card Superstitions

Likely because of their association with gambling and fortune telling, playing cards have long been regarded as objects of moral and spiritual danger, if not of outright evil.
Playing Card Superstitions

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The 100 Best Products of 2007

From the PC World editors - ranking the best PCs, HDTVs, components, sites, and services. Plus: the products they're looking forward to next year, and which technologies are rising and falling.
The 100 Best Products of 2007

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Interesting Notes

Passive-aggressive Notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers.....

10 Simple Ways to save Messing up Your Life

10 Simple Ways to save yourself from messing up your Life

General Social Survey: Australia, 2006

Among the many, often inter-related, aspects of life that are important to human wellbeing are good health, good family relationships and engagements with wider social networks, good educational opportunities and outcomes, suitable employment, a decent income and freedom from financial stress, a decent and affordable place to live, feeling safe and secure, and having access to suitable transport. There is increasing recognition that many social phenomena are inter-related and social policy is becoming less sectoral as a consequence. In 2006, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) conducted the second General Social Survey (GSS), a multi-dimensional social survey that ranges across all of these aspects of life to enable analysis of the interrelationships in social circumstances and outcomes, including the exploration of multiple advantage and disadvantage.
General Social Survey:Australia, 2006

Overclock Your Reading Speed

Speed reading is an excellent skill that can be used in your workplace, your home life, as well as your personal hobbies.
Overclock Your Reading Speed

Monday, May 21, 2007

Disney Underground - The Tunnels Exposed

Are there really tunnels under Disney? Are there really hidden Mickeys? Did you see Walt's frozen head? I guess these questions really only come from outside of Florida, and prompted this post about "The Tunnels"

Keyboard Shortcuts

A list of common keyboard shortcuts that are used in modern desktop environments: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, KDE and GNOME. These are shortcuts used to interact with the desktop environment, and shortcuts commonly used in desktop applications.
Table of Keyboard Shortcuts - Wikipedia

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Eyesight Myths

It’s important to separate fact from fiction, especially when the topic is eyesight. And old wives’ tales abound about the eyes. Many of these have no basis in fact and, for that matter, can be dangerous if you followed the advice put forth.
But knowing how to take good care of your eyes is the first step to protecting your sight for a lifetime. So here’s the lowdown on some eyesight myths:
15 Useless or Even Dangerous Eyesight Myths at Ririan Project

Best Dilbert Ever!

Dilbert Comic Strip

Improving Your Landscape Photography

There’s something about getting out in nature with the challenge of capturing some of the amazing beauty that you see. The quietness and stillness of waiting for the perfect moment for the shot, scoping out an area for the best vantage point and then seeing the way that the light changed a scene over a few hours.
Here are a few the lessons learned for Improving Your Landscape Photography

The Bathroom Diaries

The Bathroom Diaries scours the globe to rate the worlds’ toilets. Few would visit a country without some advanced information, yet our tender bits are exposed to uncharted territories with no help or assistance. At our most vulnerable, we are blind. Well, no more.

Dubai Puts a New Spin on Skyscrapers

Dubai Puts a New Spin on Skyscrapers - In skyscraper-crazy Dubai, tall isn't enough. In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Fun with clouds!

Clouds can be funny - The color of a cloud tells much about what is going on inside the cloud. Clouds form when relatively warm air containing water vapor is lighter than its surrounding air and this causes it to rise. As it rises it cools and the vapor condenses out of the air as micro-droplets. These tiny particles of water are relatively densely packed, and sunlight cannot penetrate far into the cloud before it is reflected out, giving a cloud its characteristic white color.
Fun with Clouds!

Friday, May 18, 2007

Da Vinci's Guide to Healthy Living

Leonardo Da Vinci, considered to be one of the greatest creative minds of all time, lived a good life. His talents led him to be supported and befriended by many of the most powerful men of his time. He wasn't just one of history's greatest artists, he was also one of history's greatest engineers and he was much admired, not just for his huge intellect, but also for his handsomeness, his physical strength, and his singing voice. He also had a heart, his love for animals the reason for his vegetarianism. He died at 67 years of age, which in 15th century Italy probably equates to 90 now.

Da Vinci's Guide to Healthy Living

50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity - lifehack.org

Here are 50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity and add hours to your day!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Top Ten Myths of Divorce

Discussion of the most common misinformation about divorce - the
Top Ten Myths

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat - Disneyworld

It’s Disneyworld. The happiest, smiling-est, hottest, sweatiest, standing-in-lineiest place on earth. This year’s motto: “The Year of A Million Dreams”.

Where Do You Fit?

Where Do You Fit?
Do you cringe when your cell phone rings? Do you suffer from withdrawal when you can't check your Blackberry? Do you rush to post your vacation video to your Web site? The questions below allow you to place yourself in one of the categories in the Pew Internet Project's Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.

9 Little Known Ways To Sleep

Can’t sleep? Try these snooze tips you may not have heard before.
9 Little Known Ways To Sleep

Saturday, April 21, 2007

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thursday, April 05, 2007

MS07-017 Security fix and Realtek Soundcard

With the release of MS07-017, there have been reports of Windows XP SP2 systems with Realtek audio cards experiencing the following symptoms:

When you start a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel may not start.
Additionally, you may receive the following error message:
Rthdcpl.exe - Illegal System DLL Relocation

The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\Windows\System32\Hhctrl.ocx occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

This problem occurs when the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel (Rthdcpl.exe) by Realtek Semiconductor Corporation is installed.

If you have experienced this issue, the fix is to apply http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935448 after application of both MS07-017 and MS07-008. This Hotfix is currently not available via WSUS/SUS and will require a manual install.

Ugh!

Monday, April 02, 2007

10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed

10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed

Top 20 Historical Myths

Here are 20 of the most common historical myths, which have misled and misinformed people for years, decades, or centuries.



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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

PICTURES : Most Dangerous Roads in the World, Part 3

"Since our last installment in this highly popular series (Magnificient Tunnel Road, November 2006) we have received many tips and pictures of the roads that are no less intimidating, and in some cases just as dangerous."



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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Top 5 Impossible Structures

Here are some of the impossible structures, though they appear to be impossible for construction but they are made possible. These pictures have not been edited.



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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind

Much of what we don't understand about being human is simply in our heads. The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more. Here's a heads-up on what's known and what's not understood about your noggin.



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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

PICTURES: You think your job is bad??

Pictures that make you say I'm glad that is not my job!



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How thieves hack into an ATM -- slideshow

Full sequence taken from security camera, with explanation



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Monday, March 19, 2007

Ten Photos Taken at the Right Moment

Some lucky photographers often catch unexpected moments - sometimes appropriate, sometimes inappropriate, and often hysterical. Other times photographers catch moments just before something happens, or as it happens. Here's a collection of ten such photos...



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Sunday, March 18, 2007

VIDEO: Amusing physics.

Just Amazing things. Needs to be seen...



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PICTURES: Beautiful Air Scenes of Africa

Some of the most stunning pictures you might ever see!



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Thursday, March 15, 2007

How Pi Works

Pi is an extremely interesting number that is important to all sorts of mathematical calculations. Anytime you find yourself working with circles, arcs, pendulums (which swing through an arc), etc. you find Pi popping up. We have run into Pi when looking at gears, spherical helium balloons and pendulum clocks.



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The Longest Waves in the World (Pics + Video)

Twice a year, between the months of February and March, the Atlantic Ocean waters roll up the Amazon river, in Brazil, generating the longest wave on the Earth. The phenomenon, known as the Pororoca, is caused by the tides of the Atlantic Ocean which meet the mouth of the river. This tidal bore generates waves up to 12 feet high for over a half hour.



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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Top 30 Strangest Deaths in History

For example...Death by Drowning at Lifeguard Party and Death from Holding a pee in. Enjoy.

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PICTURES : Amazing Storms

A collection of pictures of impressive storms.



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Friday, March 09, 2007

MUST SEE Photo series: Extreme Things on Earth

This series of incredible photos include the largest seed on earth, the longest residential building, Largest Quicksand, Largest Flower / Parasite, Deepest Cave, Largest impact crater, Lowest Elevation, Windiest place, Highest Elevation, Hottest place, Wettest place, Smallest Park, Tallest water fall, Thickest Ice Sheet, and Most populated city



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Re-imaging History: Altered photos you thought were real

A picture is worth a thousand words, and Photoshop and similar tools have made it easier than ever to make those words fib. But while computers enable easier and better photo manipulation, it is hardly a new phenomenon. Here is a sampling of some of the more famous altered photographs from the last century.



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10 of the Most Awkward TV Interviews

Going all the way back to Barbara Walters in 1981, and as recently as last month, this list presents the most awkward interview moments of all time.



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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Nine Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood

In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It’s just when they cheat with special effects that we seem to forget how the world really works.



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Monday, March 05, 2007

Flickr Photo Pool of Yesterday's Full Lunar Eclipse

Photos of yesterday's lunar eclipse.

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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Amazing Skydiver Jumps Out Of Plane And Into Another

Watch as this skydiver jumps out of a plane and then catches up to another falling plane and gets in...

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We can identify "mystery faces" just 6 pixels wide!

How good are humans at identifying faces? Amazingly good, even with only a few sparse pixels' worth of information. Very cool, and very cool pics.

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13 things that scientists can't explain

13 things that do not make sense. Includes the placebo effect, dark matter, the wow signal and other mysteries that scientists have yet to explain.

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Top 10 Worst Marketing Gaffes, Flops, and Disasters

10) McDonald's: "I'd Hit It" 9) New Coke 8) Honda's Asimo Falls Down Stairs: "Any third-grader with a circuitry board can make a dancing robot, but only Honda can make one that walks up stairs and falls on its space skull. For now, ED-209 must remain but a dream."

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Near realtime free satellite images of the Earth

The MODIS satellites gaze back at the Earth constantly circling and snapping high res images of our world. You can see what they've been up to for the last couple days and download high res versions that are in the commons and ready for you to use for whatever you like.

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See How Easily You Can Create HDR Photos (Ultimate guide)

Collection of HDR photography tutorials and techniques with some amazing examples.



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