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Online Text Case Changer

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Online Text Case Changer:

In case you want to change your text case without opening a big, bloated word processor.

(via youvejustlostthegame:acegemtura)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:06:47 -0500

(via youvejustlostthegame:acegemtura)

New Ways To Overcome Your Most Embarrassing Body Issues

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

New Ways To Overcome Your Most Embarrassing Body Issues:

Details:

If you’re still treating nasty conditions like dandruff and rank feet with old-fashioned balms, powders, and shampoos, it’s time to upgrade. These modern remedies work better—and they’re a lot less humiliating.

Open Source Mac

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Open Source Mac:

If you own a Mac and you’ve never looked through opensourcemac.org, you should. There’s a couple of dozen free applications listed from IM Clients (Adium) to photo editing (The GIMP) to FTP (CyberDuck) and a lot more.

How Much Severance Pay Can You Expect?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500

How Much Severance Pay Can You Expect?:

What to expect when you’re expecting (to get laid off).

[C]ompanies’ standard severance policies are still based largely on years of service, with about half of employers offer two weeks’ salary for each year you’ve worked there. Slightly more than one in three pay one week’s salary per year of service; and fewer than 20% offer less than a [week’s] pay per year of service.

World Map (via NoamR)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

World Map (via NoamR)

From the website that brought you Piano Stairs and The...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

From the website that brought you Piano Stairs and The World’s Deepest Bin comes Bottle Bank Arcade

(via TheFunTheory.com)

"Just thought I’d let you know, my productivity, already questionable, has plummeted since..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:08:20 -0500

“Just thought I’d let you know, my productivity, already questionable, has plummeted since getting a Tumblr account.”

- Tim Sabin, Another Satisfied Customer

How to Bet Against the Weak American Dollar

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

How to Bet Against the Weak American Dollar:

The simplest way is a mutual fund called the Rydex Inverse Government Long Bond Strategy (RYJUX). As the price of the 30-year Treasury drops, the price of RYJUX rises. You could also simply short an exchange-traded fund like iShares’s TLT, which represents 20-plus-year bonds, or IEF, which deals in mediums (seven to ten years).

The RYJUX has been around since the mid ’90s, but it’s been a very sleepy investment because the whole point of the long bond has been to move very slowly in either direction.

What’s new is the proliferation of exchange-traded funds that seek to amplify bets in either direction. These trade like stocks — meaning you can buy them and sell them midday—and deploy leverage. So an ETF like ProShares UltraShort 20+ Yr Treasury (TBT) produces twice the inverse of the daily performance of the Barclays Capital 20+ Year U. S. Treasury Index. If the index moves down 1 percent, your ETF moves up approximately 2 percent.

But if you’re long a ton of investments that will collapse if the dollar falls further, then a couple long-term TLT puts could protect you from the worst unwinding of American value in our nation’s history.

But hey, at least it looks as though everyone’s gonna have access to cheap health care.

"For instance, the King of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes so he ordered people to eat..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:56:46 -0500

“For instance, the King of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes so he ordered people to eat them. Complete failure. Undeterred, he got the idea to restrict potato consumption to the royal family and set up a special King’s potato garden. Suddenly everyone wanted one.”

- Putting the special in special teams: Perceived value and football at the University of Texas (via slantback)

newsweek: “The three most-repeated attention-getters in the happiness field are: 1. Lottery winners...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

newsweek:

“The three most-repeated attention-getters in the happiness field are:

1. Lottery winners quickly return to the same level of happiness they had before they won the lottery.
2. Paraplegics are just as happy as everyone else.
3. Having kids makes you less happy, not more.

The argument was that our sense of happiness is a perceptual illusion. We believe kids make us happy because we remember the fabulous moments of joy with our kids, while we tend to forget the stress of changing diapers, defusing tantrums, worrying about school admissions, consternation over them not eating food we so laboriously slaved over, et cetera. Kids give us lots to enjoy, but they give us even more to worry about. They cancel themselves out, happiness-wise.”
Po Bronson, puzzling out what happiness is.

Matryoshka Russian Nesting Dolls Measuring Cups (via neatorama)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:04:34 -0500

Matryoshka Russian Nesting Dolls Measuring Cups

(via neatorama)

How to Hold Your Breath Like David Blaine, World Record Holder

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:49 -0500

How to Hold Your Breath Like David Blaine, World Record Holder:

It is easier to hold your breath if you haven’t eaten for 4-6 hours. It is also easier to hold your breath if you have less body mass to support. David will purposefully lose 30+ pounds during serious training to improve his lung-to-body volume ratio.

Mad Men Characters Compared With The Office Characters (via...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:26 -0500

Mad Men Characters Compared With The Office Characters (via sugarbuzz.com)

The Complete Guide To Google Wave

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500

The Complete Guide To Google Wave

Secret Knock Detecting Lock Schematic here.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Secret Knock Detecting Lock

Schematic here.

"I usually get to work between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Of the 16 people at the company, eight of us live..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

“I usually get to work between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Of the 16 people at the company, eight of us live here in Chicago. Employees come to the office if and when they feel like it, or else they work from home. I don’t believe in the 40-hour workweek, so we cut all that BS about being somewhere for a certain number of hours. I have no idea how many hours my employees work — I just know they get the work done.”

- Jason Fried (via dears)

Put This On

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500

Put This On:

A web series about dressing like a grown up.

This website has already turned up a few times on Tumblr, but what I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that this is a Tumblog. (Why do websites try to hide the fact that they’re a Tumblog? I’m more apt to read you consistently if you’re on my dashboard.)

To Follow, go to the “Following X People” link on your dashboard and type in putthison.

The Podcast RSS Feed is also the newest addition to my automatic Miro downloads.

i see wut u did there… (via mkhall)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

i see wut u did there…

(via mkhall)

toldorknown: The picture is of 18,000 men preparing for war in...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:32:21 -0500

toldorknown:

The picture is of 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge, in Iowa.
A few facts about the image:

Length from base to Shoulder: 150 feet

Right Arm: 340 feet

Length of Torch and flame: 1000 feet

Total Length: 1490 Feet

Number of men in body and head of figure: 2,000

Number of men in right arm: 1,200

Number of men in torch: 2,800

Number of men in the flame only: 12,000

Total men: 18,000

(via A 90 Year Old Example of Forced Perspective Photography )