Beyond... The Black Stump
Thursday, July 31, 2008

An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need

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We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different way...

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

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What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas migh...

8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your Life

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Albert Einstein stated that “problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Einstein, of course, was right. Som...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Nineteen tips for cheering yourself up -- from two hundred years ago

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In 1820, Sydney Smith wrote a letter to an unhappy friend, Lady Morpeth, in which he offered her tips for cheering up. Most of Smith's s...

I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know, I Can’t …

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I find myself blurting out I don’t know as an instant answer to questions I don’t have immediate answers for. Lately, I’ve been noting how t...

11 Things You Shouldn’t Leave For School Without

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A simple list to simplify your life. 11 Things You Shouldn’t Leave For School Without

100-year-olds use Wikipedia too

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A survey of 100 centenarians published by healthcare coordination program Evercare found at least two very wired respondents. Three of the 1...
Monday, July 28, 2008

7 Ways to Manage Your Passwords

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One inescapable facet of web work is the need to come up with, and remember, usernames and passwords. The days when you could get away with ...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Paper misspells its name on front page

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New Hampshire and Vermont’s* Valley News could be a favorite for 2008’s Typo of the Year, thanks to it misspelling its own name on the front...

30+ Tools for Synching Files and Folders

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The amount of important data that we now store digitally on our desktops, laptops, mobile phones, and PDA’s is growing exponentially every y...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Follow The Sun - Australian Travel Posters 1930s - 1950s

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The posters in this exhibition are drawn from the collections of the National Library of Australia. Follow The Sun - Australian Travel Poste...

Statue of 'Elvis' chiselled 1800 years before his birth

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With his dashing chiselled features, swept back hair and perky bouffant the resemblance is unmistakable. But incredibly this carving of Elvi...

Human Mirror

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For our latest mission, we filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror. Enjoy the video first and then see below for o...

How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor

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If your LCD screen has a stuck or dead pixel (a point on the screen that is always lit or always dark), it is usually due to a transistor ma...

Top 10 Water Wasters

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Many of us use water thoughtlessly; it seems as abundant as the air we breathe and a free swig is available almost anywhere. But fresh, pota...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

How to Maximize Your Memory

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Students (of all ages) might have more on their minds now than ever before — from work, to school to all of the other distractions pulling a...

Best global roaming deals for iPhone travellers

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Travelling from Australia with your iPhone overseas? Here's the best value for your data-roaming dollar! Best global roaming deals for i...

Encrypt Your USB Stick

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Encryption is absolutely essential, especially if you’re the kind of person that carries their USB stick around as if it’s your car keys or ...
Monday, July 21, 2008

UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Twenty-seven new sites inscribed

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The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 8 July with the...

11 ways to eat the 11 best healthy foods that you aren't eating

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When I was a kid, my grandmother never relied upon the classic "Because I said so!" when pressed with the ubiquitous "Why?...
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