Spread Kindness, It’s Contagious

The Kindness Campaign — Spread Kindness, It’s Contagious
THE KINDNESS CAMPAIGN
A Project of the Carolina Institute For Conflict Resolution and Creative Leadership
The motto of The Kindness Campaign is “Spread Kindness — It’s Contagious.” © Its goals are (1) to restore a sense of community and neighborliness that we seem to have forgotten and (2) [...]

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MIT’s stackable car concept

I could use “stackable” cars at my house so that I could put both cars into the garage!

The Smart Cities team at MIT is tackling the problem of city traffic congestion — still left untouched by the Segway — with a “stackable” car to be used as part of a public transportation program, much like [...]

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Serenity is BBC Film 2005’s viewers film of the year

The browncoats have struck. Serenity has been voted BBC Film 2005 Viewers Film of the Year.
Film 2005, presented by Jonathan Ross is the UK’s Top Movie show!!!
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Peace and how to attain it from Martin Luther King

portland imc – 2003.12.12 – MLK: A Christmas Sermon On Peace
It’s one of the strangest things that all the great military geniuses of the world have talked about peace. The conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, were akin in seeking a peaceful world [...]

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To the Moon – Make it So!

NASA – How We’ll Get Back to the Moon
How We’ll Get Back to the Moon
Crew Exploration Vehicle Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we’re going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There [...]

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The Truth Behind Bananas

I have always liked bananas, I think I need to start eating them every day!

After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again.
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Learn Something new every day

Mogollon Rim – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across Arizona, extending approximately 400 miles (650 km) from northern Yavapai County eastward to the Mogollon Mountains in southwest New Mexico. The Rim is an escarpment defining the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, and along its [...]

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New to me Tool for 2006 to GTD by David Seah

David Seah – Better Living Through New Media : The Printable CEO Part II: Much To Do About Task Tracking
The Task Progress Tracker, is about motivating you to invest time into specific projects in as unstructured a way as possible. The magical part is that it appears to help me create structure from [...]

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My favorite web based applications from 2005

WordPress.Com – The hosting software for this blog.
BlinkList.Com – Surpassed del.icio.us for my bookmarking needs late in the year.
digg.Com – Great breaking news of interest site with easy blogging feature.
Netvibes.Com – Wonderful personal web portal.
peoplefeeds.com – Awesome personal aggregator to see all of my web content in one place. Just overcame SuprGlu today when it [...]

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26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!

I am looking forward to checking this collection out when I get home tonight.

This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.
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New Theme Regulus 2 by Ben Gillbanks

I really like the options that I can customize with Ben’s theme, but I cannot seem to get the Colour Scheme : options to change to whitewash for some unknown reason. Anyone else have a solution to this minor problem?

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Resolutions 2006 Conundrum

I was talking with my wonderful wife last night about my possible resolution number 7. Do something completely outrageous.
The only thing that she could think of that qualified for that was skydiving, which she was not real comfortable with me doing.
So what would qualify as something that was completely outrageous?

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Time Names Battlestar Galactica Show Of The Year

I agree 100% this is a great show! I cannot wait for it to start up again.
Time Magazine’s Television Critic James Poniewozik has put Battlestar Galactica at the top of his list of the Best TV Shows from 2005. His summary starts off ‘Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a [...]

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Second Attempt for At least one thing I can be thankful for from President Bush

My first attempt at being thankful was the Hydrogen story where Simon told me I needed to do some more research. I have always been a huge fan of Space Exploration. One of the first maps I had on my walls as a kid was of the Moon, closely followed by a Solar System map. [...]

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2006 Resolutions

Turmoil has ensued, should I make some resolutions or not?
If I do make some, which of the multitude of procrastinated goals I have running through my mind should I actually try and commit to?
1. I think my safest bet is to try and follow my tagline. The only question, How do I narrow that idea [...]

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2006 Christmas List First Item found already!

I found my christmas present for 2006 already.
Cintiq 21UX – Interactive Pen Display

The Cintiq 21UX has an 21.3� high-resolution display and a dynamically adjustable stand that allows the display to be rotated, inclined, and even quickly removed for in-lap use. To further enhance your comfort the Cintiq 21UX comes with a cushioned Grip Pen for [...]

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Power Napping, Sign me up!

MJ PEAK PERFORMANCE: Snooze, You Win – Improve your mental and physical performance by power napping
Mednick’s most recent research also shows that power naps can lift productivity and mood, lower stress, and improve memory and learning. In fact, Mednick has found through MRIs of nappers that brain activity stays high throughout the day [...]

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My Mind is like a pinata!

“See, the human mind is kind of like . . . a pinata. When it breaks open, there’s a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.”
– Jane Wagner

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Merry Christmas

Wow! We just finished the gift unwrapping. What a whirlwind tour of paper flying and giggles of glee. Somehow the multitude of gifts that took so long to find and wrap were opened in a mere 35 minutes by two tired but very happy children. Here is hoping that all of you are yours have [...]

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Unified Feed Icon

Binary Bonsai
Meet the New Feed Icon

As we enter 2006, it’s about time we unite around a common feed icon. I’d already implemented it in K2, for the next release, and today I found this site which is promoting the use of a unified feed icon. Firefox started it, IE is onboard, it’s time for us [...]

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Speed up your VS.NET debugging

Groby Unplugged

Faster debugging in VS.NET
September 26th, 2005
More from the “we fix VS.NETâ€? department – in todays episode, we’ll take a
look at the VS.NET debugger and make it faster. Or at least fast enough
so you don’t want to smash your computer waiting for it…
The steps are ordered by ease of discovering the problem, i.e. a log
of [...]

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Rules to live by

Ten Rules for Being Human by Cherie Carter-Scott

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New blogging extension for Firefox 1.5

Link Via Performancing for Firefox
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8
or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the
blog editor and easily post to your WordPress, MovableType or Blogger
blogs.
Performancing for Firefox is for Firefox 1.5 and above only. We’ve made [...]

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Just in Case we get to edit our own templates here someday soon

Link via Tinkering with the Templates
First off it is very easy to switch and/or edit templates from within the WordPress Dashboard, but you should make sure that you keep the original intact and work with a copy as you can immediately switch back if something goes wrong.

 

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Quote of the day

“The body must be nourished physically, emotionally and spiritually.
We’re spiritually starved in this culture — not underfed but
undernourished.”
–Carol Hornig

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