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Contemporary Illustrations by Ben6835. 50 Beautiful Pieces Of Concept Art From Classic Disney Movies. - StumbleUpon. Rhetological Fallacies. 100 Books to Read Before They're Movies. The Best Of Genius Ideas - 50 Pics. 35 Things To Do Instead Of Spending Money. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius - 30 Pics. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius - 40 Pics. Click Here For More Genius Ideas.

Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius - 40 Pics

Clever Travel Hacks for your Awesome Trip. You booked your trip and you purchased the travel health insurance.

Clever Travel Hacks for your Awesome Trip

How to Open a Bottle of Wine with Everything But a Corkscrew. The 30 Best Films of the Decade. Tips and Tricks for Extending Battery Life in iOS 7. Creative Mom Turns Her Baby’s Naptime Into Dream Adventures. Do babies dream when they sleep, or they simply rest peacefully?

Creative Mom Turns Her Baby’s Naptime Into Dream Adventures

Queenie Liao, a freelance photographer, and mother of three baby boys living in California have tried to answer this question by sharing the adventurous dramas that her child Wengenn dreams of during his sleep. Combining artistry and imagination with photography, Queenie has created these cute photos using plain cloths, stuffed animals, and other common household materials to create the background setting.

31 More Quotes That Will Give You Chills. 30 Albums That Define Cool. Any album “list” is going to be incomplete.

30 Albums That Define Cool

Bookshelf Porn. - StumbleUpon. Because Every Country Is The Best At Something. (Images) 56 Inspirational Picture Quotes That Will Motivate Your Mind. The 50 Best Coming-of-Age Movies. 25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen. Midnight in Paris Woody Allen’s latest places starving writer Owen Wilson in Paris with his fiancée, Rachel McAdams.

25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen

Searching for inspiration for his incomplete novel, Owen begins taking strolls around the city at night where he discovers an unexpected group of people. I wish I could be more specific, but it would ruin the surprise. Know that it is brilliant, witty and full of mystique. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes (RT). 18 ways to educate yourself every day (because nerds are sexy) “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.

18 ways to educate yourself every day (because nerds are sexy)

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” Henry Ford. Drum Kit. 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Intute: Use this website’s search tools to find the best and most reliable sites to start your research. Meta Search. The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. [Editor’s note: In celebration of the holidays, we’re counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012.

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World

This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy a book when with just a click of a button, they could have it delivered to their door? Become a Morning Person: 8 Tips from a Former Night Owl. Become a Morning Person: 8 Tips from a Former Night Owl I spent most of my early and mid 20s working the second shift at newspapers.

Become a Morning Person: 8 Tips from a Former Night Owl

I loved working as a copy editor, and I loved the hours, too. My shifts began at 4 p.m. and ended at midnight, which meant I could stay up late, sleep until noon, and still have time to run errands and go to the gym (a rare occurrence then) before work. The Scale of the Universe 2. Drinkify. Various quotations. 10 Weird and Mysterious Places on Earth. Digg 1. Mystery Spot Mystery Sport is a tourist attraction near Santa Cruz, California, famous because of its disrespect to the laws of physics and gravity.

The odd cabin, although seems like lying on flat ground, makes those who enter inside swinging all the time. 'Mockingbird' film at 50: Lessons on tolerance, justice, fatherhood hold true. How-To: Easily Remove the Vocals from Most Songs. 2015 Shortcut: When I wrote this article Audacity didn’t have an automatic center-panned vocal canceling effect… but now it does, so rather than do the stereo-separate / invert-one-track / play-both-as-mono trick (and that’s pretty much all there is to it), you should be able to find the Vocal Remover option in the Effects menu – but it’s more fun / interesting and can give better results if you do it yourself!

How-To: Easily Remove the Vocals from Most Songs

=D I found this trick the other day whilst stumbling the Interwebs and thought I’d do a quick-write up w/ pictures to make it as easy as possible… For this exercise we’re going to be using a piece of free audio software called Audacity, which you can get for Linux, Windows and Mac. Update: If you’re trying this out on a Mac, please make sure you get Audacity 1.3 Beta or newer – the stable 1.2 version appears to have a missing equaliser decibal-range slider which you need towards the end of the process! 1.) Import Some Audio 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) Wrap Up. 25 clever ideas to make life easier.