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Top 10 Clever Hacks for Things You Thought Were Trash

Greets!!! What shakes?? I'm still around, awaiting the immanent demise of my star, along with those of others here. I have calmed down with Firefox. Haha, wait, what imminent demise of stars? I did not know you were still around, heh. Oh god, you and your insane userstyles.. Hey Revo! Not to worry! I think we are on the cusp of a change in the gawker system.

Ideas - Globe. Uberman's sleep schedule. Background The Uberman sleep schedule is a method of organizing your sleeping time to maximize your REM sleep and minimize your non-REM sleep.

Uberman's sleep schedule

The goal of the sleep cycle is that you are actively in REM sleep within a couple of minutes of falling asleep and remain in that state until you awaken. I originally read about the schedule on everything2. In essence, someone utilizing the Uberman sleep schedule is actively modifying their sleeping habits so that they can immediately jump from waking to a few minutes worth of stage 1 sleep straight to stage 5 REM sleep, as described in this discussion of sleep stages. It is important to note that there are no studies as to the long-term physical or physiological impact of this sleep cycle. The Uberman's Sleep Schedule Sleeping Hours The Uberman's sleep schedule revolves around forcing yourself to rely on six twenty to thirty minute naps spread throughout the day for your daily dose of sleep.

Benefits The obvious first benefit is more free time. Lucid Dreaming Frequently Asked Questions Answered by The Lucidity Institute. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it.

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness

There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully.

Ben Benjamin - Temporary Aztec. The Last Page of the Internet. Silk — Interactive generative art. Brain Fitness And Memory Programs, Brain Training - CogniFit - StumbleUpon. Most Popular Repurposing Tricks of 2011 - StumbleUpon. Emergency and Disaster Information Service. Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon. Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two.

Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon

You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart). Comandos Ejecutar Win 7. Comandos Windows 7 y botón ejecutar. Para acceder a ejecutar en W7 probablemente no lo tengas en el panel de heramientas activado por defecto, por lo cual con solo poner en Buscar ejecutar encontrarás el cámpo de ejecución.

Comandos Windows 7 y botón ejecutar

Si querés tenerlo siempre disponible vas al panel de herramientas>propiedades>Menu Inicio>Personalizar> y tildar Comando Ejecutary Conectar a >Aceptar y listo. Comandos para Windows XP, Windows Vista y Win 7… Binary - its digitalicious! - StumbleUpon. World War II photographs show American soldiers fight for survival in brutal Battle of Saipan. By Lydia Warren Updated: 13:01 GMT, 17 January 2012 It is the little-known battle that claimed the lives of thousands of Americans during World War II.

World War II photographs show American soldiers fight for survival in brutal Battle of Saipan

But now black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting against Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan between June 15 and July 9, 1944. Faces etched with the pain of their experiences, war-weary men are captured transporting their wounded comrades or forcing Japanese civilians from their hiding places.

Long journey: U.S. soldiers drive the wounded from the front lines during the fight to take Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, June 1944. The photographs were taken during a battle that claimed the lives of 22,000 Japanese civilians - many by suicide - and nearly all 30,000 Japanese troops on the island. The battle was a turning point for the American battle against Japan's forces. Smith also documents the struggles of the Japanese.

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