40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes Ever

1. Britney Spears: "I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't really like eating fish, and I know that's very popular out there in Africa"
etc
40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes Ever

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file.
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

Goldfish memory longer than ‘3 seconds’? It’s old news

Rory Stokes, 15 year old student of the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide, Australia, and a finalist in the 2008 BHP Billiton Science awards, has proven that goldfish have a memory span far greater than 3 seconds – but he was far from the first to do so.
Goldfish memory longer than ‘3 seconds’? It’s old news

Lost and Found via Google

According to a Google search for “I lost all my” and variants, people are currently looking for the following things:
Lost and Found via Google

12 Things to Do with Coca Cola

Coca Cola (the real one) is not only great to drink, it also has many uses around the home.
This list of uses was tested on ordinary, original Coca Cola, not the diet kind, or any of the variations there are available.
12 Things to Do with Coca Cola

Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

Ok, you’ve got loads of music on your computer - but is that all cluttered, unorganized, unmanaged and simply not easy to access? May be you need to do something. Literally hundreds of free software let you play, organize, burn and do lots more with your digital MP3 music collection. Have a well tagged, sortable music collection that you can be proud of!
Here comes a carefully chosen list of free programs that might help you squeeze the best out of your MP3 collection.
Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities

Factoids hardly anybody knows, about pretty much anything that might turn up as subject matter in a rousing championship match of Trivial Pursuit down at the pub on Thursday night. Some of these are real crowd-pleasers sure to draw spontaneous applause, stunned gasps, and plenty of free beers from admirers.
50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities

20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends

Best-selling author Tim Ferriss offers digital minimalism tips to reduce the amount of time you spend in your email inbox.
How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends

20 Things that culturally define Australia

(from Greg Davies)
Living in the United States is an interesting experience for someone who was born and raised in Australia. Quite often, I get asked a lot of questions about what it is like back home. Sometimes I even get questions such as, "Do you know Crocodile Dundee?" - To which I reply a line made famous by Kevin Bloody Wilson: "Know him? Mate, he's my brother!"
20 Things that culturally define Australia

How Haggling Taught Me About Life

I used to be afraid of bargaining. The thought of haggling over a price, or even asking for a discount, was embarrassing. Then I began visiting countries in which haggling is expected. I was forced to adapt. At first it was frustrating, then tiresome, but eventually I learned to embrace the process of bargaining. Once I did, I realized that haggling had taught me a lot.
How Haggling Taught Me About Life

Retrain Your Brain: Give Your Brain a Boost

Can't remember where you put your glasses? Blanked on your new colleague's name? "Forgetting these types of things is a sign of how busy we are," says Zaldy S. Tan, MD, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "When we're not paying good attention, the memories we form aren't very robust, and we have a problem retrieving the information later."
Retrain Your Brain: Give Your Brain a Boost

Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps

We’ve helped you find online word processors and spreadsheet apps, now it’s time for presentations. We’ve gathered up 13 online presentation creators to make it even easier for you to forget about doing anything offline ever again!
Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps

John Cleese’s “Letter to America”

Dear Citizens of America,
In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy), as from Monday next. etc
John Cleese’s “Letter to America”

7 Food Hacks to Stay Alert Without Caffeine

Are you a zombie without your morning cup of coffee? Instead of using caffeine to stay awake, you can tweak the food you eat to get more energy. By making small changes to your eating patterns you can prevent morning grogginess and mid-afternoon slumps.
7 Food Hacks to Stay Alert Without Caffeine

10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access

Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet but can send or receive email messages? With email and no Internet, how do you read websites and blogs or check the current stock prices, etc
10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access

Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

Could we hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology? Could we use plate tectonics to re-direct whole island chains, color rocks, print cities out of magma, and build mountains where mountains have no right to be? Here are the Entropist's top five ways to change the surface of the earth.
Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

10 Tips for Life’s Greatest Challenge

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
10 Tips for Life’s Greatest Challenge

8 Highly Effective Cold Prevention Strategies

Drink fluids and get rest. Those two simple actions will speed-up your recovery.
8 Highly Effective Cold Prevention Strategies

weird science

Science is weird. It’s also cool, interesting and fun. Don’t believe me? Keep reading weird science and you’ll see that the stuff you have to swallow during hour (or more) long classes in school is not the only thing that science is about. It’s one part. An important and necessary but not always fun part.
weird science