Friday, January 04, 2008

5 New Year's Resolutions You Owe Yourself

We questioned health professionals and plumbed the scientific literature in a quest for the most life-enhancing New Year's resolutions possible.
5 New Year's Resolutions You Owe Yourself

World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places

Where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects.
World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places

Should "Decimate" be Annihilated?

For the past few decades, Lake Superior State University has issued an annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.” Candidates for “banished words” are nominated by the public at large, and then a committee decides on the final selection, which is released every year on New Year’s Day. The 2008 list is a typical mix of terms deemed by the committee to be clichéd, improperly used, or objectionable in some other way.
Should "Decimate" be Annihilated?

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Top 15 Amazing Coincidences

Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally - extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.
Top 15 Amazing Coincidences

Australian Government Equates Freedom Of Speech To Liking Kiddie Porn

It will not only take all of two minutes to bypass the great firewall of Australia, and worse still it will actually provide a false sense of security to parents who will wrongly believe that the internet is now a safe place for their children, when it still isn’t. 'Nuff said...
Australian Government Equates Freedom Of Speech To Liking Kiddie Porn

Twelve tips for keeping your resolutions

Twelve tips for keeping your resolutions after the zeal of 1/1/08 has worn off.
Twelve tips for keeping your resolutions

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Darwin Awards: 2007 Darwin Awards

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
Darwin Awards: 2007 Darwin Awards

19 New Year’s Photo Resolutions

We’ve come up with 19 photo-related New Year’s resolutions that’ll have you learning more, practicing more, and taking more risks in two thousand and awesome. So here they are: 19 New Year’s Photo Resolutions. Pick even one, and you’re likely to leave 2008 with vastly improved photographic skills.
19 New Year’s Photo Resolutions

100 things we didn't know last year

The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. To kick off 2008, here are some of the best of last year.
100 things we didn't know last year

Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions

Lots of you are kicking off 2008 with New Year's resolutions, but they won't keep themselves. To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that. Track your progress and help motivate yourself to stick to your New Year's resolutions with our favorite goal tracking webapps and tools.
Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The year's ten best films

It was a time of wonders, an autumn of miracles, one of the best years in recent movie history. One great film after another opened, and movie lovers found there were two or three, sometimes more, must-see films opening on a weekend. I gave up rationing my four-star ratings and went with the flow.
The year's ten best films and other shenanigans

The 53 Places to Go in 2008

Where to go in 2008 - the travel choices for global nomads have never been more varied.
The 53 Places to Go in 2008

Celebrity Deaths in 2007

List of cultural and entertainment names that are no longer with us.
Here, a roll call of some of the notables in the arts and popular culture who died in 2007. (Cause of death cited for younger people if available.)
Celebrity Deaths in 2007

Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists

This page aggregates all of the 2007 lists.
Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists

2007 Year in Review - ABC News Australia

Change seemed to be the buzzword for 2007 - from climate change, workplace relations change to the change of government and our nation's leaders.
2007 Year in Review - ABC News Australia

Great birthday gifts for your girlfriend

What you get your girlfriend for her birthday is going to depend on how long you have been together, at what stage of the relationship you are in, and how well you know her. The hardest gift to figure out is always the first one.
Great birthday gifts for your girlfriend

Best of 2007 and predictions for 2008

2007: we'll always remember it as the year of the... well, year of the what, exactly? So much happened in tech this year that we can't sum up the year with a single label. So we asked the Ars staff to reflect on the event, product, or trend that defined 2007, a year that saw both the announcement and introduction of the iPhone, the growth of 700MHz "spectrum fever," and the Jammie Thomas trial.
Best of 2007 and predictions for 2008

7 Ways to Track Your Goals

Are you writing resolutions for 2008? Even if you’re not, you probably have some goals or at the very least some projects that capture your dreams for the future. Here are 7 ways to keep track of the things you want to make happen in your life — which one suits you?
7 Ways to Track Your Goals

Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet

The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet.
Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet

Fast Facts about New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

From Resourceshelf.
Fast Facts about New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day