Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell

Clients are the lifeblood of any business. Without them, your venture simply doesn't exist. On the other hand, some clients are so bad that your business, not to mention your personal sanity, is better off without them. So what do you do when you have a client that pushes you to the brink? You fire them! Here's how to give 10 of the worst offenders the pink slip without burning bridges.
Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell

60+ Free Password Managers and Form Fillers

If you’re an active internet user with accounts on dozens of websites, chances are you already have dozens of user IDs and passwords to remember. An identity system like OpenID may eventually solve all your problems, but until that time you can make use of various tools to save your passwords and automatically fill out forms.
60+ Free Password Managers and Form Fillers

Cancer-Proof Your Body

Recent research reveals 8 stealth strategies to keep the killer at bay. It's time to raise your carcinogen shields -- and your overall health -- using these smart anti-C moves.
Cancer-Proof Your Body

Winamp Goes Where iTunes Doesn't Dare

Winamp 5.5 (Beta) sports two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music collection over the Internet.

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5 Essential Things To Do In Space

Since Sputnik, planetary exploration has gone through several waxing and waning phases. The 1980s, for instance, might as well have been the dark side of the moon. The present looks brighter: dozens of probes from the world’s space programs have fanned out across the solar system, from Mercury to Pluto. But budget cuts, cost overruns and inconsistency of purpose have cast long shadows over NASA. At the very least the agency is going through its most unsettled period of transition since Nixon shot down the Apollo moon missions 35 years ago.
Are the world’s planetary exploration programs are on track? The list of goals that follows synthesizes their priorities.
5 Essential Things To Do In Space

The Hormone That Helps You Read Minds

We've long accepted that hormones can make you amorous, aggressive, or erratic. But lately neuroscience has been abuzz with evidence that the hormone oxytocin -- which also acts as a neuromodulator -- can enhance at least one cognitive power: the ability to understand the gist of what others are thinking.
The hormone that helps you read minds

Smelly Boyfriend? That's your Genes Talking

When it comes to a man's body odour, the fragrance or stench is in the nose of the beholder, according to US researchers.
Smelly boyfriend? That's your genes talking

The Ultimate Resource Guide for Commuting by Bicycle

With the rise of oil prices and the growing ‘green’ movement, people everywhere are evaluating commuting to work by bicycle.
The Ultimate Resource Guide for Commuting by Bicycle

How to Sleep On a Plane

Step 1: Book the right seat.
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How to Sleep On a Plane

Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out

The definitive ultimate guide. Enjoy!
Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out

Get Out Stains with These Homemade Stain Removers

Stains. What I hate more than stains is paying $5 for a stain remover that never seems to do what it says on the box. "Surely there are better products I can make at home, using things I already have"?
Get Out Stains with These Homemade Stain Removers

Quick Cleaning Solutions for Every Room

What to do around the house if you have 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, or half a day to clean.
Quick Cleaning Solutions for Every Room

Recreational Exercise and Pregnancy

A leaflet explaining the risks and benefits of recreational exercise, what to avoid and when to stop (during pregnancy and immediately after the birth).
Recreational Exercise and Pregnancy

Tallest Building in the World

Dubai skyscraper reaches 555 metres; eclipsing Canada’s CN Tower
Tallest Building in the World

Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don’t know how to take notes.
Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

7 Ingenious Don't Drive Drunk Ads

Here are some of the most eye-catching ways advertisers are highlighting the dangers of alcohol, alcohol awareness and drunk driving awareness in recent ad programs.
Stop Your Boozing - 7 Ingenious Don't Drive Drunk Ads

World's Worst Polluted Places 2007

From environmental health organization "Blacksmith". Worst is Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, followed by Linfen, China; Tianying, China; Sukinda, India; Vapi, India; La Oroya, Peru; Dzerzhinsk, Russia; Norilsk, Russia; Chernobyl, Ukraine; Kabwe, Zambia.
World's Worst Polluted Places 2007

Underwater Lost Cities: 7 Submerged Urban Wonders of the World

A wealth of human history lies submerged in ancient cities at the bottoms of lakes, seas and oceans of the world. Some of these were sent into the water via earthquakes, tsunamis or other disasters thousands of years ago.
Underwater Lost Cities: 7 Submerged Urban Wonders of the World

Clouds that look like UFOs

Lenticular clouds.
Clouds that look like UFOs

Missing van Gogh Discovered

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, have discovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) underneath the artist’s painting Ravine, owned by the MFA.
Missing van Gogh Discovered