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1000 Life Hacks

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2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.

Michael Cerdeiros - Cerious Productions | 101 Useful Websites Changelog and Updates The following websites were part of the original list but they are either no longer available or have been replaced with better alternatives. 327k Shares What Happened to the Boat Rockers? | Erik MacKinnon (note: sorry, this is a long one. Fasten your seat belts…) Although I’ve been attending fewer classes these days due to school fatigue, Gravytrain‘s rampant growth and my move off-campus to downtown Vancouver, I was forced to attend a recent lecture on “professionalism” given by an employee of our faculty, which I found both interesting and amusing. To begin the lecture everyone stood up, and then seated themselves if they were found to be in violation of dress code bullet points that were read off. Sit down if you’re wearing Uggs. Sit down if you’re wearing perfume or cologne. Given that I was one of the only people in the room in a collared dress shirt and dress shoes, I figured I would last a while until I realized that I was wearing jeans – the unholy Satan of the “corporate world” – and soon enough I was relieved from my standing position while a number of other students were somehow still alive in this little game. …but you know what? Look. Want to know my secret? No. Good luck.

ColorZilla for Chrome - Eyedropper, Color Picker and much more ColorZilla for Google Chrome is an extension that assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks - both basic and advanced. ColorZilla includes a Color Picker, Eye Dropper, Gradient Generator and many additional advanced color tools. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can analyze the page and inspect a palette of its colors. You can create advanced multi-stop CSS gradients. ColorZilla is also available as a Firefox add-on. Why does ColorZilla need permission to "access data on all websites"? This permission is needed by ColorZilla for its basic functionality of picking colors from websites. ColorZilla DOES NOT collect any of your data or your browsing activity on any websites.

17 Websites That Will Make You Smarter OPAC The Computerized Catalogue has replaced the old Card Drawer System in libraries that have been computerized. It lets you browse items by author, title, subject, class or ISBN number and a Keyword search is included as well. Another major advantage of this service is that one can browse items not only pertaining to the library from where he/she is making the search but is automatically browsing all the material that is present in all the Public Libraries (and the National Library) both in Malta and Gozo. Clients are also informed of whether the item in question is available or is currently on loan, for example. Clients can make use of the various outlets that are present at the Central Public Library and at the Regional Libraries.

Reads Welcome | Festisite How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert Einstein once said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” The same could be said of intelligence. What they don’t tell you is that the “smart” people of the world are, in most cases, just better at researching and learning things than everyone else. But researching is a learned skill, not something you’re born with. And while some people might be predisposed to learn things more easily than others, it’s generally not enough to make a measurable difference. By learning how to research, you can quickly and fairly easily become knowledgeable about just about anything. It’s all there, online, for free. Start with Wikipedia Whenever you try to learn something new on the Internet, start with Wikipedia. The main reason to start with Wikipedia is that it gives a good overview of most topics. Sure, any given page is bound to have some inaccuracies (as is the case on most user-generated websites), but most of the content is generally reliable. Move on to Google Go Multimedia

Working The Cloud | The Ultimate Online Guide for Business That Selfie You Just Took Says A Lot About Your Current Mental State | Erik MacKinnon Age is a funny thing; it grants you the ability to look back in time, drawing on your own personal experiences to compare ‘the way things were’ with ‘the way things are’. Of all of the current things that I shake my head at, few are as inexplicable as the enormous rise of narcissism – a pathological personality disorder that you can almost certainly observe being played out many hundreds of times a day in your Facebook or Instagram feeds. But… why? Do you know where the word ‘narcissist’ comes from? That’s right – the guy took the modern-day equivalent of a #selfie and HE DIED. Which brings me back to age. The whole ‘shameless’ part is hilarious in and of itself. Shamelessness. Research into this field isn’t exactly new, but it is pretty telling at just how fucked up things are getting. This constant reinforcement of something – regardless of whether or not it’s true – can actually lead one to develop a pathological addiction to the attention of others. What’s the point of all of this?

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