All of us have experience with random, mysterious and sometimes lingering pains at some point in our lives. Most of us shrug it off, and usually the pain leaves the same way it arrived -- on its own and without explanation.
Discovery Health "10 Mysterious Pains You Shouldn't Ignore"
Friday, November 12, 2010
Discovery Health "10 Mysterious Pains You Shouldn't Ignore"
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If You Begin a Sentence with Well, There's a Good Chance You're Lying
If you think someone's lying, you can't really subject them to a polygraph test. But, it turns out that if they start their sentence with the word "well," you won't have to.
If You Begin a Sentence with Well, There's a Good Chance You're Lying
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The 10 Most Incredible Google Bombs
Chances are that even if you’re unfamiliar with the term, you’ve experienced a Google bomb in action somewhere on the internet. Once, they were a rarity, a novelty even, but now there are hundreds of them out there on the web. Many are politically motivated and most include some kind of derogatory reference.
The 10 Most Incredible Google Bombs
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Permanently Delete Files In Windows Explorer With RightDelete
It is sometimes necessary to delete a file permanently from a computer system. It may be after you have read a business document on a public computer, watched or viewed media on a work computer or to protect family members from accessing files on a home computer.
Permanently Delete Files In Windows Explorer With RightDelete
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
How to Most Effectively Battle the Common Cold
Things You Can Do at Home (That Won't Cost You an Arm and a Leg).
How to Most Effectively Battle the Common Cold
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Get Your Loaned Item Back with These Simple Tracking Systems
Remember when you completely forgot to ask your friend to return your favorite DVD? It’s time to start using a good system to keep track of the items that you lend or borrow to your friends. In this article we will cover two simple tracking systems: ReturnMyPants to keep track of your personal inventory and BillMonk to keep track of money.
Get Your Loaned Item Back with These Simple Tracking Systems
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Deaths, Australia, 2009
Deaths and mortality rates, Life expectancy at birth, Infant deaths.
Deaths, Australia, 2009
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Nutrition Professor Loses Weight On Junk Food
If you want to lose weight you’ll see results faster if you eschew fancy and complicated dietary rules and focus on reducing the number of calories you take in — though we might suggest not measuring them out in Twinkies.
Nutrition Professor Loses Weight On Junk Food
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HOW TO: Tastefully Use Social Media at Your Wedding
As social media becomes more and more a part of our lives, etiquette failures can occur when there are so few precedents. A wedding day is the perfect example of this. You want to share your special day with your social circle, especially those who can’t attend, but where do you draw the line?
HOW TO: Tastefully Use Social Media at Your Wedding
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Manually Restore System Files from Your Windows Installation Media
If you’ve ever had a missing or corrupt system file in Windows you sometimes end up in shady parts of the internet downloading files from who knows where. Why not restore the files directly from your installation disks?
Manually Restore System Files from Your Windows Installation Media
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No more drunk Facebook thanks to tool
The Social Media Sobriety Test, a free Firefox application from online-security company Webroot, allows users to select the social media sites they use in which they must pass a sobriety test before being able to log on during their pre-set "hours of intoxication".
No more drunk Facebook thanks to tool
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How To Protect Your USB Device At Cyber Cafes
While traveling, one cannot be assured of always having a personal computer. Though a few high end hotels provide personal laptops to guests, not everyone can afford to stay at such hotels. If you don’t have access to a personal computer, you have no choice but to go to a cyber cafe, or a public internet center where you use a computer for internet for a pre-paid price usually fixed per hour. Browsing at an internet cafe brings a mixture of many things that need to be considered.
How To Protect Your USB Device At Cyber Cafes
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
Windows Auto Login And Lock
Do you sometimes power on your computer and leave immediately afterwards for other activities, like making coffee or breakfast, taking a shower or going into a meeting. There are two possible scenarios here. If you have not configured auto login, you will see the the logon screen where all user accounts of the Windows operating system are shown. When you are back, you need to log in and wait until the desktop has been loaded. Not an optimized way of logging in.
Windows Auto Login And Lock
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How To Hide Hard Drives And Partitions In Windows
Hiding a hard drive or partition in Windows can be an effective way of preventing access to the drive’s contents. The method is not foolproof though, and users with enough time on their hand will eventually find a way to access the contents of the drive, for instance by booting from a Live CD. Still, it works pretty well to hide it from inexperienced users.
How To Hide Hard Drives And Partitions In Windows
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Saturday, November 06, 2010
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 23/2010
The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 23/2010
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Friday, November 05, 2010
Holy Cow! Microsoft Doesn’t Know Simple Maths
Microsoft has been selling their Windows operating systems ever since 1993. That’s a good lord 17 long years. They have had more than eight different versions of Windows OS in those 17 years, and all of them were aimed to do simple & complex computing.
Holy Cow! Microsoft Doesn’t Know Simple Maths
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Weird 1940s advice for moms who want their boys to tuck in their shirts
To cure boys of the habit of not keeping shirttails tucked in.
Weird 1940s advice for moms who want their boys to tuck in their shirts
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Terrible Beauty: A-Bomb Tests - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which invented the atomic bomb, was a brilliant physicist and theoretician who is often viewed today as either 1) an irresponsible scientist of unchecked hubris who set humanity on the path to eventual nuclear annihilation, or 2) a sensitive seeker after truth whose ideas and insights were perverted by right-wing militarists for their own nefarious ends. Both views are, of course, absurd oversimplifications of the man and his legacy.
Terrible Beauty: A-Bomb Tests - Photo Gallery - LIFE
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Monday, November 01, 2010
Bart Cummings shares his Cup tips
Bart Cummings gives his verdict on So You Think and which horses will give it a run for its money in tomorrow's Melbourne Cup.
Cummings shares his Cup tips
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Google-eye view of a nuclear test site - Boing Boing
Yucca Flat was the site of 739 nuclear tests between 1951 and 1992. Once an anonymous stretch of desert, it's now pockmarked with subsidence craters left behind by underground nuclear detonations. Among them is the Sedan Crater, a massive, 1200-feet-wide, 320-feet-deep pit.
Google-eye view of a nuclear test site
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