Eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, not smoking, and drinking alcohol moderately could add 14 years to your life, according to British researchers.
Add an extra 14 years to your life
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Add an extra 14 years to your life
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
How to Deodorize a Room
We've all been there. Your room has 'acquired' a smell, and you just can't seem to get rid of it. Things that are clean generally shouldn't smell, but some odors have a way of getting all over everything. Here are several ways that really work to lessen odors in a room, in order of effectiveness and relative ease. Use the ones that seem most appropriate to your situation, but for really bad odors it may be worth using multiple methods to attack the smell. Finally, don't panic - these really do work and with a little time and effort the odor can be significantly reduced in a couple of days.
How to Deodorize a Room
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7 Tearfully-Pleasing Uses for Onions
People, despite getting teary-eyed, enjoy the numerous culinary uses of the onion. The gas containing vegetable is both a primary ingredient and a flavor enhancer in many dishes. If you think its list of uses end at the kitchen, you better think again. It is proven to be a medicinal wonder, as well as a metal polisher and an insect repellent. With its number of alternative uses, the onion may induce tears of joy to any DIY pundit. Here are seven of its tearfully - pleasing uses.
7 Tearfully-Pleasing Uses for Onions
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25 Useful Financial Rules of Thumb
A rule of thumb is a general guideline, an easy way to approximate a value quickly. It’s not meant to be completely accurate.
25 Useful Financial Rules of Thumb
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Monday, March 09, 2009
How to Make Work Feel Effortless
Sometimes work feels like a drag. You get caught up in trying to be more productive and suddenly your life turns into a series of to-do lists. You gauge your measure of success by how much you accomplish. You even determine how happy you allow yourself to be by how much you’ve gotten done in the day. When this occurs, work turns into a chore. You don’t enjoy the work, you just to do it so it can be over with. Then you can feel good, right? But wait, there’s that thing you forgot about. You still need to do that. And oh yeah, there’s that other thing you haven’t done yet.
How to Make Work Feel Effortless
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Find Free Transport In Most Australian Capital Cities
Australia's different capital city public transport systems don't have much in common -- but many of them do offer free bus services in their CBD areas (along with the occasional no-cost tram or train). Check out this comprehensive listing to save money (and traffic jams) the next time you're in an unfamiliar city.
Find Free Transport In Most Australian Capital Cities
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Microsoft Time Zone
There is no build in way to display different time zones in Microsoft operating systems. The clock in the system tray will always display the time of the selected time zone. Users have to rely on third party programs or the Internet to view multiple time zones at once. One of the possibilities is a small Microsoft application that can be used to display the times of various time zones in the Windows system tray. The application will pull the information directly from the default time zone list of the Windows operating system which means that every time zone in the world is covered by it.
Microsoft Time Zone
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International Women's Day: Web and Social Media Resources
If you’re wondering why “Happy International” is a top trend on Twitter today, it’s because today is International Women’s Day, an important day that celebrates the achievements of women everywhere. This year will be the 98th celebration of International Women’s Day. And although we celebrate the advances women have made today, we are also humbled by the reminder that there is still a lot of work to be done in the realm of gender equality.
International Women's Day: Web and Social Media Resources
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Spoof Magazine Covers and More at WriteOnIt
Your mother always told you you'd never sell enough gold records, or fall hard enough from a high enough office, to make the cover of a magazine. Prove her wrong with spoof site WriteOnIt.
Spoof Magazine Covers and More at WriteOnIt
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Saturday, March 07, 2009
HTML to PDF Converter Turns Web Sites into PDF Files
If you'd like to save a web site for posterity without the mess of saving the page and all its files, the web-based HTML to PDF Converter can crank out a PDF.
HTML to PDF Converter Turns Web Sites into PDF Files
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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
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Friday, March 06, 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
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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
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Tough geometric brain teaser
Good luck!
Tough geometric brain teaser
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Funny traffic sign hack
A cleverly-placed sticker.
Funny traffic sign hack
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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
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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
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
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?
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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)
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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
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