Blackstump Australia Issue 8 - March 8, 2009

The latest issue of new family friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Blackstump Australia Issue 8 - March 8, 2009

When fast-food's nearby, stroke risk is high

For me, and no doubt many others, proximity to fast-food breeds consumption. Now, a new study suggests that easy access to fast-food may also be tied to a higher risk of stroke.
When fast-food's nearby, stroke risk is high

Ten Things That Won’t Matter In Ten Years’ Time – And Ten Things That Will

You’re stressed, overworked, and tired. You feel like you’re dropping the ball on so many things. You find yourself lying awake in the early hours, thinking about those items still on your to-do list, those emails not yet cleared.
Ten Things That Won’t Matter In Ten Years’ Time – And Ten Things That Will

Tough geometric brain teaser

Good luck!
Tough geometric brain teaser

Funny traffic sign hack

A cleverly-placed sticker.
Funny traffic sign hack

Roman Catholic bishops to faithful: Give up cell phone and Internet during Lent

Concerned that Christians are not entering the Lenten season (which began last week on Ash Wednesday) with the proper spirit, some clergy are calling on their flock to nix text messaging for the next six Fridays leading up to Easter on April 12. Christians are annually asked to refrain from eating meat on Fridays and to pray more regularly during Lent, but the church has apparently gotten hip to the hold that technology has on its brethren.
Roman Catholic bishops to faithful: Give up cell phone and Internet during Lent

New Google Site to Share Money-Saving Tips

Google offers a new Google Moderator-based application called Tip Jar. The purpose of the mostly green-color-themed site is for people to contribute money saving tips and tricks in areas like work, family, transit and more.
New Google Site to Share Money-Saving Tips

Image Of The Day: What Is This?

What the hell is this? Neurons firing up inside a brain? An installation with several Tesla coils? A weird electrical storm phenomenon? A color-inverted photo of an spiders orgy? A new nano-technology organic-based processor?
Image Of The Day: What Is This?

Windows 7 Lets You Finally Uninstall Internet Explorer (Kinda)

The AeroXperience weblog has uncovered a shocking change in the latest release candidate of Windows 7—Internet Explorer can be removed through the Windows Features dialog. Finally!
Windows 7 Lets You Finally Uninstall Internet Explorer (Kinda)

Best and Worst 2009 Cars

Here are the Consumer Reports top-rated vehicles in ten categories (with previous years’ top cars in parentheses):
The Consumer Reports Auto Issue: Best and Worst 2009 Cars

How to Cultivate Compassion in Your Life

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama.
How to Cultivate Compassion in Your Life

How to Open a Bottle Without a Corkscrew

A wine bottle, without having a corkscrew, is a tough nut to crack. Removing the cork, which is wedged through the nozzle, is not easy to dislodge, especially if you don’t have a tool to pull it out. Good thing the makeshift world presents more than one solution to this problem. In fact, you will realize that the corkscrew is not all too important with your available options. Here are three distinct ways to open a bottle without using a corkscrew.
How to Open a Bottle Without a Corkscrew

Capture Your Outlook Contacts With gwabbit

I’m often surprised by the number of people who use Microsoft Outlook as their primary email and information manager who don’t also take full advantage of its contact capabilities. While I wouldn’t say it compares with a full blown CRM system, it is certainly a capable program for maintaining contact information.
Capture Your Outlook Contacts With gwabbit

HOW TO: Measure Online Influence

Influence is difficult to ascertain online. What about that guy on Twitter with 25,000 followers? Isn’t he influential? What about that woman who has 5,000 RSS subscribers? She has to be influential, correct?
HOW TO: Measure Online Influence

Fish with "humanoid" face

Two fish with human-looking "faces" apparently live in pond behind a home in Chongju, South Korea. They are reportedly hybrids of a carp and a tangerine fish. Weird Asia News has more info and a Korean TV news report.
Fish with "humanoid" face

Square root day, 3/3/09, is upon us

Math lovers and numerologists take note: Yesterday, March 3, 2009, was square root day.
Square root day, 3/3/09, is upon us

Privacy Fail

"For the larger board meetings, the basin can be used as a spare."
Privacy Fail

Cc:Betty Offers Your Own Personal Email Assistant

Email, which underpins everything we do online, hasn’t changed very much over the last decade or so. In fact, the ever-increasing number of messages to follow (estimated to be some 210 billion per day in 2008) means that email takes up way too much time and is nowhere near the productivity tool that many of us would like it to be. Cc:Betty, launching in open beta today at DEMO, hopes to change that by offering a “group email assistant” that helps you digest email conversations by presenting them in an easy-to-follow way and extracting useful stuff, like dates, contacts, files and links.
Cc:Betty Offers Your Own Personal Email Assistant

Bulk Upload and Host Images for Free at Imagebam

If you're looking for a quick and dirty free image host for fast image sharing, Imagebam makes it extremely easy to get your photos out there.
Bulk Upload and Host Images for Free at Imagebam

Supercomputer finds oldest English words

The oldest words in the English language include 'I' and 'who', while words like 'dirty' could die out relatively quickly, say UK researchers.
Supercomputer finds oldest English words