Friday, August 17, 2007

10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Aspirin is an excellent painkiller and anti-inflammatory, but it also has many other household uses.
10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

In the wake of nearly 200 passenger deaths in a Brazilian airliner accident, we take an exclusive look at 36 years’ worth of NTSB reports and seating charts. The best way to live through a disaster in the sky? Move to the back of the Airbus.
Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

Worst Slogan Translations Ever

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth." etc
Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Ten Free Security Utilities

Here's a list of ten free security tools you can and should be using to help protect, disinfect and manage your Windows computer.
Ten free security utilities you should already be using

9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

If you take enough photos of people, eventually you’ll photograph someone who is either a little heavier or thinks that they are. This is especially true for those of us in the U.S., where obesity rates are sky high. The good news for you is that there are a few tricks you can add to your bag to help make your subject look thinner. You’ll get the photo, your subject will be happy with it, and everyone wins.
9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

Best of July 2007

Every month Smashing Magazine takes a look around and selects some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. They read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles they’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in July.
Best of July 2007

100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Most of us are interested in improving something about ourselves: our productivity, our sanity, our organization, our happiness, our effectiveness, our impact on the environment, our minds, our dreams.
And you can spend hundreds of dollars on books and thousands of hours on websites looking for your answers.
Or you can look no further.
100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Top 10 PDF Tricks - Lifehacker

Top 10 list of techniques for converting, exchanging, sharing, managing and editing PDF documents.
Top 10 PDF Tricks

Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

This publication contains quarterly estimates of average weekly earnings based on information obtained from a sample survey of employers.
Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Most celebrities are not known for their intellectual prowess, but they have provided words that wowed us, from insight or sheer audacity. The USA TODAY People staff picks some stunning sound bites from stars over the past 25 years.
Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Monday, August 13, 2007

Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare — some are on the verge of extinction.
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

Sunday, August 12, 2007

History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

10. Considered the other "Easter Island mystery," Rongorongo is the hieroglyphic script used by the region's early inhabitants. Read on...
History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

Saturday, August 11, 2007

100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The internet revolution was supposed to be about universalizing computing. So why is it that despite the fact that you can do virtually anything from anywhere through the Net, most of us are still tethered to our computer because of the need for access to basic desktop software?
No More Hard Drive! 100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Want to do your body a world of good? It's as easy as expanding your grocery list.
The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Australian Social Trends, 2007

Australian Social Trends 2007 is the 14th edition of an annual series that presents information on contemporary social issues and areas of public policy concern. By drawing primarily on a wide range of ABS statistics, and statistics from other official sources, Australian Social Trends describes aspects of Australian society, and how these are changing over time.
Australian Social Trends, 2007

7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

Whether you’re sentenced to use Word all day by a dictatorial IT department, or it’s simply your word processor of choice, you can save time and have more options by mastering a few easy shortcuts.
7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

World's Hairiest Man

World's hairiest man has a receding hairline

Exercise-Rest-Exercise: For extra weight loss

Japanese researchers found that if you exercise, rest, and then exercise some more, you actually burn more stored fat in your body than if you just exercise without any rest in between.
Exercise-Rest-Exercise: Possible formula for extra weight loss

Monday, August 06, 2007

Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

An Indian thief forced to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative to yield a gold necklace he had swallowed produced the booty on Sunday - but only after he was fed chicken, rice and bread, police said.
Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs

If your scratches are very deep you're probably out of luck. But if a few scratches are giving you some skipping or the CD/DVD is unreadable, this may save you a trip.
Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs