The ABCs of Remaining Cool in a Crazy World

Emotional intelligence and mastery skills are not just a benefit these days; they’ve become a necessity. This post aims to address that need. It aims to provide psychologically tested methods, with a touch of Zen, to handle anything that happens in a mature and powerful manner.
The ABCs of Remaining Cool in a Crazy World

How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal

One of Google’s goals is that you should be able to throw just about anything into a search box (package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers, etc.) and Google will try to do something reasonable, such as return the status of a flight.
How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal

Sandcastles need water to stay upright

Building sandcastles is child's play, as any beach goer knows. Now scientists explain why. You just add water.
Sandcastles need water to stay upright

Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

It was a wonder in its time: A camera that spat out photos that developed themselves in a few minutes as you watched. You got to see them where and when you took them, not a week later when the prints came back from the drugstore.
But in a day when nearly every cellphone has a digital camera in it, “instant” photography long ago stopped being instant enough for most people. So today, the inevitable end of an era came: Polaroid is getting out of the Polaroid business.
Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

How to get over the flu faster

Every winter is flu season. How do you get rid of it once you've caught it? Read on for tips to get better faster.
How to get over the flu faster

Achieve a Deep , Uninterrupted Sleep

Blessed sleep -- the holy grail of health. Lack of sleep can send your blood sugar levels skyrocketing, contribute to weight gain, lead to depression, put you at risk for diabetes, and cause brain damage.
Achieve a Deep, Uninterrupted Sleep

How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot

Maybe you’ve never learned how to tie a tie. Maybe you’re just out of practice. Maybe you wear one to work each day, but want a fresh trick or two to upgrade your style. Where ever you are, I’m sure you can learn something today.
How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot

17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape

While getting in shape has been a start-and-stop-and-start-again affair for me over the last couple years, over the long run, I’ve become fitter than ever.
17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list of addresses, after the jump.
Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

Australia at a Glance, 2008

Industry
Includes: Production, Agriculture, Building, Retail turnover, Tourism, Motor vehicles

Environment
Includes: Climate

Economy
Includes: National accounts, Consumer Price Index, Balance of payments, Finance, International trade, International investment

People
Includes: Demography, Population, Unemployment, Labour market, Education, Health
Australia at a Glance, 2008

Year Book Australia, 2008

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Year Book Australia is truly a remarkable series. Reaching its hundredth year in 2008, the Year Book has shone a light on the whole nation, communicating information which benefits all Australians in all aspects of their lives.
One hundred years ago the first Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia was published by the then Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. The preface notes that is was the first 'authoritative Year Book issued under the Federal Constitution'. The high value of the Year Book is attributable in no small degree to the reliability of the information it contains. Billy Hughes, Australian Prime Minister 1915-23, once said that 'There are only two people I trust - God and the Commonwealth Statistician'. The high quality of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) research has been well represented in its Year Books.
Year Book Australia, 2008

Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

11 Ways To Expand Your Mind And Recover From Brain Rot

Just to be clear on the Alex Shalman definition of brain rot: It’s when you forcefully stuff too much of the wrong information into your brain, to the point where both your thinking and behavioral patterns become highly disturbed.
11 Ways To Expand Your Mind And Recover From Brain Rot

Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications

The gap between online and offline is closing more each day, and working with your spreadsheets in a collaborative atmosphere is not a bad reason to try an online spreadsheet editing tool. We’ve got 14 choices for you for working with your spreadsheets online; most are free, a few aren’t, but there’s something here for everyone.
Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications

10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

In order to have a winning personality, it is of utmost importance to have everyone’s best interest in mind.
10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

Hide and Secure a Folder (For Real) in Windows

Windows only: My Lockbox isn't a full-featured encryption solution like TrueCrypt, but it is an easy and free way to hide a folder from all but the most technically savvy (and extremely prying) eyes. Install the program, choose a folder you want to hide (or let it create a "My Lockbox" in your My Documents folder) and then run the program to unlock and add files to it. Shutting down the program or even booting into safe mode won't reveal your folder, unlike many other "hiding" utilities, and even looking at folder sizes won't reveal your data. Somebody with a recovery disk and knowledge that you're hiding something might breach your data, but for most people's needs, My Lockbox gets the (secret) job done. My Lockbox is a free download for Windows 2000 and later.
Hide and Secure a Folder (For Real) in Windows

Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?

Sleep disorders such as sleepwalking arise when normal physiological systems are active at inappropriate times. We do not yet understand why the brain issues commands to the muscles during certain phases of sleep, but we do know that these commands are usually suppressed by other neurological mechanisms. At times this suppression can be incomplete—because of genetic or environmental factors or physical immaturity—and actions that normally occur during wakefulness emerge in sleep.
Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?

7 Freeware Resources For Your Windows Mobile Device

Windows Mobile, contrary to what some may believe, holds a huge portion of the mobile device market. Besides being installed on several phone models, there are still stand-alone Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that are being released into the marketplace (although smartphones are admittedly taking their place at a fast rate). We’ve gathered up seven freeware directories to help you get that Pocket PC doing everything but your laundry!
7 Freeware Resources For Your Windows Mobile Device

Police sketch: 'Faceless' bank robber (Thailand)

The Royal Thai Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of stealing 200,000 baht from the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok several weeks ago.
Police sketch: 'Faceless' bank robber (Thailand)

Creative thinking rules

From an NPR story about Sister Corita Kent. She was an art teacher who influenced many creatives, including Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, John Cage and Henry Miller, and is perhaps most famous for the 1985 love stamp.
Creative thinking rules

50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight

Besides looking great on the beach, commonsense tells us that one of the best things you can do for your overall health is to drop a few pounds. Or maybe more than a few pounds.
Being overweight significantly increases your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer ... the list seems almost endless. Plus, if you do get sick or need surgery, being overweight can make any treatments riskier.
50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight

11 Hot Tips To Increase Your Metabolism

It’s extremely common for people on diets to eat too little. You will lose weight to start, but your body is smarter than you. Way smarter. It will start thinking, “this crazy kid is simply not eating enough to survive, I’m going to drop his/her metabolism, so he/she doesn’t burn as much during the day and can survive off this ridiculously small amount he/she is eating”. Bottom line, starvation won’t work as a diet, your body will make sure you don’t burn too much and die. Cut down your calories a little, and exercise more. Also check out this post on cheat eating and how it can help you trick your metabolism.
Increase Your Metabolism: 11 Hot Tips To Get Your Furnace Burning

10 Ways to Make Someone Else's Day

Because of our modern busy lifestyles, it becomes easy to forget that we live alongside others who have needs just like we do. We treat people like props set up behind an orchestra which solely exist to play the background tunes to our lives.
10 Ways to Make Someone Else's Day

12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22

My, how time flies. Seems just like yesterday that I was a 12 year old kid, going for long bike rides in Sherwood Forrest, the subdivision just around the corner from where I lived. Playing with William, Edward, and my little brother, climbing in the tree house, looking forward to Brent coming over to visit. Those were all good times and my only dread was finding out that we were having liver for supper.
12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22

7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union

There are amazing abandonments in America but the former Soviet Union has some of the most interesting, unique and strange abandoned buildings. The complex political, military and social history of the country has led to everything from almost-finished buildings abandoned before actual use and entire abandoned cities to chilling gulags in which tens of millions of prisoners met their end.
7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union

Sleep no escape from a wired world

Your bedroom could be the next thing to be wired.
Meet the Starry Night Bed: it has sensors, temperature controls, internet connectivity and a home theatre option.
Sleep no escape from a wired world

Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss

Researchers are revealing hidden complexities behind the simple act of kissing, which relays powerful messages to your brain, body and partner.
Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss

Quick fixes for image problems

You know that people make snap judgments about you based on your appearance. But it turns out that most of those judgments are right. In a study where people viewed photos of CEOs, the people were able to guess the personalities of the CEOs accurately just by looking at their photo.
Quick fixes for image problems

10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

I have to admit, I'm as lazy as the next guy. I have my moments of productivity, where I'm cranking out the tasks and checking things off my to-do list like my life depended on it.
But for the most part, I just want to do a few things each day, and then take a nap.
10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

Google Experiments with New Search Tools, and You Can Too

Google is interested in alternative ways to search the web, and the company has announced an interesting set of new, experimental search tools. You can try them now.
Google Experiments with New Search Tools, and You Can Too

Stop the Annoying "There are unused icons on your desktop" Popup Balloon

One of the most irritating "features" in Windows XP is the popup balloon dialog that tells you to clean your desktop. I booted up an old virtual machine a few minutes ago and encountered it again, so I decided to write up how to turn it off.
Annoying…
Stop the Annoying "There are unused icons on your desktop" Popup Balloon

10 Morning Rituals For The Healthy Entrepreneur

Most personal development and productivity experts suggest mornings as the best time for clear and focused results-driven work. I’ve experienced the same and form my days around just a few hours of work in the morning between 10am and 1pm.
10 Morning Rituals For The Healthy Entrepreneur

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more.
50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

Everyday Environmentalist

Remember when "environmentalist" meant…recycling?
It's not so simple anymore. Being an environmentalist today calls for a whole new level of greener thinking — from what you choose at the grocery store to how you commute to work every day.
Everyday Environmentalist

11 Power Tips for Gmail

Considering that real Gmail users didn’t know about these options, I’m going to call them power tips.
11 Power Tips for Gmail

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst.
10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Consumer Hero Investigates Toilet Paper "Sheet Shorting" Conspiracy

Leo Hill figures that every single roll of toilet paper he's bought since 2006 has shorted him at least one "sitting," says the Denver Post.
Mr. Hill has been counting the sheets included in his rolls of toilet paper since his wife noticed something odd. The rolls in the 4-pack lasted longer than the ones in the 12-pack.
Consumer Hero Investigates Toilet Paper "Sheet Shorting" Conspiracy

6 Not-So-Secret Secret Societies

List of some of the most popular, and therefore not very secret, secret societies.
6 Not-So-Secret Secret Societies

Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2007

This publication presents a summary of statistics on grape and wine production and related activities collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and from other sources.
Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2007

Aussie cities among world's most livable

Melbourne - Number two in the world, number one in Oz....never been to Vancouver but it must be good....
Aussie cities among world's most livable: survey

Work It out: More Activity = Slower Aging

Warning, couch potatoes: resting on your laurels may be hazardous to your health, not to mention make you old before your time.
Work It out: More Activity = Slower Aging

50 things I've learned in 50 years

I’m (Eric Zorn) turning 50 next week. So I thought I’d take the opportunity here to list 50 things I’ve learned in 50 years—truths gleaned from experience and the words of others that guide, inspire and sometimes haunt me:
50 things I've learned in 50 years

Six Services to Send and Share Large Files

A common question sent to ResourceShelf, what tools or services can I use to send/share large files to others without having to use an FTP client?
Here are six of them. Most are free. Try them all and see which one(s) work best for you. Most should have you up and running in a matter of minutes.
Six Services to Send and Share Large Files

10 ways to make meetings more effective

"That meeting wasted my time." How often have you made this statement? Like you, I've attended many unproductive meetings, but a recent one topped them all. I had been talking about my consulting and training work with an employee of a company in central New Jersey. Things had gotten to the point that, after receiving information about me, the person suggested that I come to his New Jersey office for a meeting he would set up that would include him and his boss, the director of a training program for new professional hires.

10 ways to make meetings more effective

Consumer Price Index, Australia, Dec 2007

THE ALL GROUPS CPI rose 0.9% in the December quarter 2007, compared with a rise of 0.7% in the September quarter and rose 3.0% through the year to December quarter 2007.
Consumer Price Index, Australia, Dec 2007

How to Stay Awake at Work or School

Have you ever been so tired you almost fell asleep at work? Did you ever wish you could just crawl under your desk and take a nap like George Costanza?
Whether you were partying too hard the night before, up late feeding a newborn baby, or some other energy draining activity, you've got an emergency that needs to be addressed pronto!
How to Stay Awake at Work or School

Spectacular hidden treasures online for the first time

Five hidden treasures from public library collections across the UK are now accessible to an online audience of millions. Selected as the winning texts in a nationwide competition, pages of each have been digitised and transformed into Turning the Pages 2.0™ ‘virtual texts'. Visitors to the British Library's website can enjoy these magnificent items for free.

The winning treasures include:
a 12th century legal work from Medway, Kent, which contains the earliest record of the English language;
a fascinating first-hand account of life in mid 19th century rural Caernarfonshire, as experienced by an unusually observant 14-year-old;
a stunning 15th century illuminated missal from Renfrewshire, which features a blood-curdling rite of excommunication;
a beautifully illustrated war record book produced by the Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes, containing stories of evacuees, enemy airmen, the coming of the American army and even jam making!
Spectacular hidden treasures online for the first time

The Art of Verbal Intimidation : Learn it and fight back!

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, but I’d rather be blind than see a coward in the mirror. In our evolutionary history, intimidation was a direct result of physical size. One human being would be intimidated by a larger creature, and even a larger human being. This formula is still in play, you need look only to night-club bouncers, celebrity security guards and biker gangs. As the tolerance for physical violence in our community diminishes, verbal intimidation has found itself a new home in our lives.
The Art of Verbal Intimidation

5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed.

If you are so passionate about your work that you border on obsessed, you might find it near impossible to turn work off.
This is especially so in the web age, when you can stay connected no matter where you are, who you’re with, or what you’re doing. What do you do when suggestions like “work only during certain hours” and “don’t check email on evenings and weekends” just don’t seem to be enough?
Here are five more powerful tricks for keeping work in its place…
5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed

Keeping Children Safe Online

Children present unique security risks when they use a computer—not only do you have to keep them safe, you have to protect the data on your computer. By taking some simple steps, you can dramatically reduce the threats.
Keeping Children Safe Online

More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague

Last year, Judi Sohn did an excellent roundup of anti-spam solutions, breaking them down by web-based, client-side and server-side solutions. As she noted there, research shows that about 80 percent of e-mail is spam, and that number has not changed much. It’s a big problem. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with a couple of solutions in addition to the ones Judi cited.
More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague

Clean Like a Maid for Better Results

Ever get the feeling after an hour spent cleaning that your place still doesn't quite look spic and span? The Curbly blog uses a bit of wisdom from one writer's work as a housekeeper to offer a few methods of ensuring a room looks presentable and less cluttered.
Clean Like a Maid for Better Results

20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity

Most people eat to lose weight, get healthy and build muscle. There are some people, however, who snack correctly in order to enhance their productivity. The following is a list of 20 foods you can eat to improve your eye-sight, improve your performance, energize your brain and keep your day on track.
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity

Darkness At Noon And At All Other Times

People always try to learn the origin of things, but the world and even most human institutions arose so long ago that our reconstruction can seldom be secure. Language is also old, and we know next to nothing about the circumstances in which it arose.
Darkness At Noon And At All Other Times

A Positioning System That Goes Where GPS Can't

Indoor positioning system technology uses radio, ultrasound or infrared signals to more precisely track locations where GPS signals are blocked.
A Positioning System That Goes Where GPS Can't

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

Ever lose patience waiting for a bus and decided to walk instead? Next time, stick around, it's nearly always the best strategy.
Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

Five Essential Tools for Moving

There are little things you can do and tools you should have plenty of on hand to make things go smoothly. Boxing up every single one of your possessions and transporting them to your new residence to set them all up again is a huge pain. Here are a few items beyond your standard boxes, tape, and blankets that can streamline your move.
Five Essential Tools for Moving

Space Station Launches 10th Anniversary with 2008 Calendar

Space Station Launches 10th Anniversary with 2008 Calendar.
Calendar

10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

In order to have a winning personality, it is of utmost importance to have everyone’s best interest in mind.
10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

The thing with bad grammar. It's the intellectual equivalent of spinach in your teeth, especially when you're at work or looking for a better job. With that in mind, here are five errors that are easy to prevent. Think of them as mental floss.

5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities

Ever needed a pie chart for a report? Did you not feel like spending a couple of hours in Photoshop trying to make one? Look no further than the web for quick and simple pie chart makers.
5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities

What’s Stopping You from Getting Started

If you’re like most people, you have a lot of projects on your back burner that you hope to get to someday but aren’t quite ready for.
What’s Stopping You from Getting Started (and What to Do About It)

How to Find Work That You Love

Most of us spend 60-80% of our waking hours doing something work-related. If you don’t enjoy that work, then it means you’re unhappy 60-80% of the time. Logical, right?
How to Find Work That You Love — A Logical Guide

75 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition

We've compiled our best expert advice, surprising tricks, and maintenance and fix-it tips to prolong the life of your car!
75 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition

Cooking oil switch produces modest weight loss

Switching to a different type of cooking oil could help people pare off a pound or two, according to new research from Japan.
Cooking oil switch produces modest weight loss

Internet and TV Lead List of Ways Men Pass the Time

We asked consumers of both genders and most ages to identify from a list of activities, their favorite leisure activity. This month we look at the males -- what are their favorite ways to spend leisure time?
Internet and TV Lead List of Ways Men Pass the Time

The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success

Yes, I experienced it, I really did; the intense feeling of true happiness and success. Not just temporarily, but extensively for an uninterrupted period of several months. This was simply the most significant ‘achievement’ of mine: finding clarity, peace and happiness in a hectic and high-demanding life.
The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success

Work-Life Boundaries for the Passionate Worker

The only problem with being super-passionate about your work life is that work can take over your whole life. That’s especially so for web workers since near-ubiquitous connectivity means you can almost always tweak that website, write that blog post, or code that next feature no matter where you are or what time it is.
Work-Life Boundaries for the Passionate Worker

25 Things You Should Never Include on a Resume

Applying for a new job comes with its fair share of rejections, setbacks, frustrations and perhaps even lonely periods of unemployment. If you've been turned down for position after position, you could be getting desperate and may want to shake things up a bit so that your résumé will stand out from the piles of others stacked quietly in HR. Before you decide to get too creative, there are some rules to résumé etiquette that you should follow.
25 Things You Should Never Include on a Resume

Top 10 Telephone Tricks

When getting things done involves making phone calls, you want to spend the least amount of time and money on the horn as possible—and several tricks and services can help you do just that. With the right tones, keypresses, phone numbers, and know-how, you can skip through or cut off long-winded automated voice systems and humans, access web services by voice, and smartly screen incoming calls.
Top 10 Telephone Tricks

Estate Planning: Why Me?

A friend of mine mourned the loss of her husband, who died of a heart attack at age 56. Although most people understand their mortality by the time they reach their fifties, this man didn't believe in insurance or planning for the future, and hence died with no coverage, very few assets, and no will.
Estate Planning: Why Me?

21 phrases to use to help you FIGHT RIGHT with your sweetheart

Almost all couples fight; the secret is to fight right.
21 phrases to use to help you FIGHT RIGHT with your sweetheart

Most Common Last Names

The 10 most common last names in the U.S. The list is based on a count of surnames from the 1990 Census. The U.S. Census Bureau lately released a list of the most common last names from the 2000 Census (the top ten from each Census shown in the link below).
Most Common Last Names

The Oddest English Spellings

For centuries English-speakers have tried to make English spelling less chaotic. These efforts have now come to an end. Most children and adults spell dreadfully, but spellcheckers correct their mistakes.
The Oddest English Spellings

Namexif Batch Renames Digital Photos by Date

Windows only: Photo file utility Namexif renames your digital pictures based on the timestamp they were taken, plus a custom name (like an event description).
Namexif Batch Renames Digital Photos by Date

Train Your Eyes to See Color, Again

There are many reasons why we don’t always get what we want. One of these reasons is because we focus on the opposite of what we want. Sometimes, we just can’t help it. But, if we are conscious of our thoughts, we can intercept these thoughts and shift our frame of mind towards our desired goals.
Train Your Eyes to See Color, Again

"Can't We Talk?"

Condensed from: You Just Don't Understand. Men and women.
"Can't We Talk?"

60 Weirdest Phobias People You Know May Have

A phobia is an intense fear of something that poses no actual danger. While awareness that the fears are irrational, phobics often find that facing, or even thinking about facing the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety.
60 Weirdest Phobias People You Know May Have

37 Stress Management Tips

Stress is a fact of life, but being stressed out is not. We don't always have control over what happens to us.
37 Stress Management Tips

Get free local POI data for your Tom Tom

While Tom Tom only releases updated POI (place of interest) overlays for Australia once a year, the Ozpoi website offers user-created data overlays which are more frequently updated, and can be hacked for use with other GPS devices including Navman, Garmin, and Mitac Mio.
Get free local POI data for your Tom Tom

20 Awesome Images Found In Google Maps

The introduction of satellite images into map search interfaces has excited both virtual sightseers and local app developers. Further innovations like Google's Street View have caused consternation from privacy advocates while further pumping up the buzz about online mapping.
20 Awesome Images Found In Google Maps

The Moral Instinct

Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable?
The Moral Instinct

Why people believe weird things about money

Evolution accounts for a lot of our strange ideas about finances.
Why people believe weird things about money

Secrets In Websites II

This post is a follow up to the first Secrets In Websites. For those who don’t remember the first time, I point out odd, interesting, funny things in other websites’ code. Yes it takes some time to put a post like this together, that’s why it’s just about a year since the last time. Enough with the intro, read on for the code.
Secrets In Websites II

The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets

People will do almost anything to lose weight. While the most logical, sustainable means of doing so hasn’t really changed—eat less and exercise—every day it seems there are a host of new and outlandish methods to lose those love handles. Most of these ill-fated regimes will help you lose pounds, at least in the short term, but sometimes it’s at the expense of an organ or your sanity.
The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets

How to Slow Down Now (Please Read Slowly)

Humans need rests, relaxation, and recreation. We need time to think about things, to clear the mind, and to have fun. But to a person overburdened with claims on her time, fun seems only a distant remembered state of mind.
How to Slow Down Now (Please Read Slowly)

Cold-Fighting Foods

A team headed by lung specialist Stephen Rennard at the Nebraska Medical Center found that in a test tube chicken soup suppressed inflammation, which causes many cold symptoms. But chicken soup isn’t the only food that might help. Here’s a daily menu based on experts’ recommendations.
Cold-Fighting Foods

10 Fail Proof Tips for Delivering a Powerful Speech

We've all heard the statistic that says people fear public speaking more than just about anything else. The good news is if you can focus on these 10 tips you'll be on your way to breaking past the fear and onto delivering a powerful speech that engages your audience.
10 Fail Proof Tips for Delivering a Powerful Speech

Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship

Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are ten of the most common and the realities that bust them.
Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship

Thrift Shop Horrors

Marvellously horrendous objects for your viewing pleasure.
Thrift Shop Horrors

PipeBytes

PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send
a file to a friend.The unique benefits of this service are:
* No software to install.
* All you need is web browser.
* Send files of any size!
PipeBytes

4 Ways to Improve Your Password Management and Stay Secure

It’s very common, for example, for people to respond to the problem of password list bloat by using the same passwords over and over at numberous sites–a security no-no. Or, even in the cases of very tech-savvy people, it’s not uncommon for passwords to be stored on a business card in, say, a wallet–also a no-no.
4 Ways to Improve Your Password Management and Stay Secure

The $2500 Tata Nano, Unveiled in India

After months of rumors and tantalizing leaks Indian automaker Tata Motors has finally unveiled the Tata Nano -- its already legendary $2,500 car. As expected, the car that Tata claims will change the face of not only the Indian car market, but the global auto industry will be a four door, five seat hatch, powered by a 30 HP Bosch 624 cc four stroke engine mounted out back and mated to a CVT.
The $2500 Tata Nano, Unveiled in India

Download and Listen to Free Music on the Web

Hey, I know you. RIAA lawsuits have scared you off P2P, but the iTunes DRM is both too expensive and too restrictive for your tastes, right? Then it's time you head to the web. In the past year the number of web sites linking to free downloads and streaming music has exploded, meaning there are more ways than ever to get your music fix.
Download and Listen to Free Music on the Web

New Year 2008

Sydney-Rio-Amsterdam-London-Hongkong-Taipei - 360 degree Panoramas.
New Year 2008-Sydney-Rio-Amsterdam-London-Hongkong-Taipei

Australian Economic Indicators, Jan 2008

A monthly compendium of economic statistics, presenting comprehensive tables, graphs, commentaries, feature articles and technical notes. Primarily a reference document, the publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy and includes statistics that can be applied to both macro-economic and sectoral analyses.
Australian Economic Indicators, Jan 2008

Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with OCR

There are a number of OCR products on the market, but don’t go for your wallet just yet. If you own Microsoft Office, you already own software capable of Optical Character Recognition: Microsoft Office Document Imaging. You can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging to grab text from a scanned document and convert it into a usable Word document.
Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with OCR

CIA’s Electronic Reading Room Releases Top 25 Searched Phrases and Top 25 Searched Documents

CIA’s Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room Releases Top 25 Searched Phrases (Nov. & Dec. 2007) and Top 25 Searched Documents (Dec. 2007)
CIA’s Electronic Reading Room Releases Top 25 Searched Phrases and Top 25 Searched Documents

The Origins of Buzzwords

Everybody seems to resent buzzwords, and everybody uses them. It may therefore be of some interest to look at the origin of those universally reviled favorites.
The Origins of Buzzwords

Top 10 Underhyped Webapps

Even in this golden age of Big Internet Companies Acquiring Everything In Sight, there are still a few independent, small webapps out there that don't get the attention they should for their useful functionality.
Top 10 Underhyped Webapps