MyArticles
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
How Lightsabers Work"
We’ve all been there before. It’s 3 p.m. at the office, and you’re positively famished. The snack machine is empty, and the only piece of food in sight is a bagel hard enough to bust windshields. You’ve snapped three plastic butter knives trying to slice the thing in half, and there’s no way it will fit in the toaster whole. Then you remember the office lightsaber. Ten seconds later, you’re spreading cream cheese, and the low-blood-sugar monster has retreated.Policies College Instructors Would Like to Put in Their Syllabi | The Tangential
Put your goddamn legs together . I know it is your goal to sit as parallel with the ground as you possibly can for the duration of class, and that your desk and its draconian insistence upon keeping you vertical is really harshing your slouch vibes. But could you please, for the sake of the person who has no choice but to look at you for the next fifty minutes, sit up and put your knees together? You’re not posing for a National Geographic spread: the art of picking up a mate in college has evolved (albeit barely) beyond presenting yourself to the available females in the classroom.
Honesty in food service. I work at a restaurant with very mixed clientele. When an item needs to be voided off a ticket, it requires a reason i.e. out of stock, kitchen mistake, server mistake...
"Accurate Candy Wrappers" by Chase Mitchell - CollegeHumor Article
10 Most Fascinating Natural Phenomena | Listphobia
A natural phenomenon is a non-artificial event in the physical sense, and therefore not produced by humans, although it may affect humans. Common examples of natural phenomena include volcanic eruptions , weather, and decay. Most natural phenomena, such as rain, are relatively harmless so far as humans are concerned.
Unlike some (bald) people , we can’t all be at Comic-Con this year, soaking up our annual allotment of nerd sweat and “he’s-right-over-there!” celebrity sightings. As the nexus of almost al things nerd, The Con’s been a gracious host to an increasing video game presence in recent years. This year’s San Diego Comic-Con features more hands-on opportunities than ever, so if you’re one of the 100,000+ people expected to tromp through the convention center, here’s a list of what you should check out. The rest of us will just watch the videos and cry into our Captain America Coolattas…
The 10 Video Games You Have to Check Out at Comic-Con 2011 - Techland - TIME.com
Judge in Google/Oracle Lawsuit: ‘You’re Both Asking for the Moon’ - Techland - TIME.com
Wanted: More judges like U.S. District Judge William Alsup. Alsup is presiding over the currently ongoing lawsuit between Google and Oracle over the former’s Android OS—which the latter says infringes on their Java patents—and is demonstrating a refreshing attitude towards both companies’ attempts to argue their case. Alsup told attorneys representing the corporations, “You’re both asking for the moon and you should be more reasonable” during a hearing yesterday, according to Reuters . Lawyers acting on behalf of Google argued that Oracle estimated damages of between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion as a result of patent infringement within the Android OS and asked Alsup to disallow those estimates, saying instead that Oracle deserves no damages.
Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
Greg Rutter 's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
Ryan Gosling Questions "Patriarchy-Dominant Society"
Ryan Gosling is not just a very attractive man, or a good actor. He is an attractive man who issues statements that include the sentence, "It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self." Harvey Weinstein has said Gosling's movie with Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine , received an NC-17 rating because it contains a scene where Gosling's character performs oral sex on Williams'. The issue of ambiguously consensual sex has also been raised , although rape scenes have never been particularly problematic for Hollywood before. The filmmakers are appealing the rating, of which Gosling says,
How To Not Get Sued for File Sharing | Electronic Frontier Foundation
While there is no way to know exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are going to do or who they are going to sue, users of publicly-accessible P2P networks can take the following steps to reduce their chances of being sued: Either: Make sure there are no potentially infringing files in your shared folder. This would ordinarily mean that your shared folder contains only files 1) that are in the public domain, 2) for which you have permission to share, or 3) that are made available under pro-sharing licenses, such as the Creative Commons license or other open media licenses, and Remove all potentially misleading file names that might be confused with the name of an RIAA artist or song (e.g., "Usher" or "Madonna") from your shared folder Or:
Pack a Backpack for Camping - Wired How-To Wiki
A well-packed sack will save your back. Photo by The Glasshalffull via Flickr . It's happened to everyone before. You start out in the comfort of your living room, with a cavernous empty backpack and all your gear spread out before you. Then, six miles out, you realize: Despite stuffing your pack to the brim, you've forgotten your rain shell and soaked your food in fuel.The images you see on your monitor are made of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator -- something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see. Unless a computer has graphics capability built into the motherboard , that translation takes place on the graphics card .
How Graphics Cards Work"
10 Psychological States You've Never Heard Of — And When You Experienced Them
Everybody knows what you mean when you say you're happy or sad. But what about all those emotional states you don't have words for? Here are ten feelings you may have had, but never knew how to explain. 1. DysphoriaLucid Dreaming/Using - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
[ edit ] Dream stabilization Once you are able to dream lucidly, you may find that it is difficult to stay in the dream; for example, you may wake instantly or the dream may start “fading” which is characterized by loss or degradation of any of the senses, especially vision. Alternatively, a new lucid dreamer could easily forget that they are in a dream, as a result of the shock of the sensation.Author: Contributing Author The following article has been generously contributed for your reading pleasure by Rourke at Modern Survival Online . We strongly urge our readers to take Rourke’s advice and download or print (or both) the following guides, which are available 100% free.