Thursday, August 8, 2013

100 Websites to Know and Use -- Many Educational


In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser.To see the original list, click here. While most of these sites are still going strong and remain wonderful resources, we’ve crossed out any that are no longer functioning. And because there are so many amazing resources out there, please add your own ideas in the comments. Happy surfing!
BUSINESS + E-COMMERCE
AUDIO + VISUAL
LITERATURE, MEDIA + CULTURE
POLITICS, NEWS + GLOBAL ISSUES
EDUCATION
SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY
And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. While most of these remaining thriving websites, we’ve crossed out defunct websites and added notes when possible:
CURIOSITY & KNOWLEDGE
GRAPHICS, MUSIC & ARTS
E-COMMERCE EXPERIENCE
SEARCHING & FINDING
ONLINE RESOURCES
TOP INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE CREATORS
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Why Marry? Jokes

Why MARRY?

You have two choices in life:
You can stay single and be miserable,
or get married and wish you were dead.
__________ 
At a cocktail party, one woman said to another,
”Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?”
”Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.”
__________ 
A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds:
”Husband Wanted”.
Next day she received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing:
”You can have mine.”
__________
When a woman steals your husband,
there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.
__________ 
A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished.
__________
A little boy asked his father,
”Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?”
Father replied, “I don't know son, I'm still paying.”
__________
A young son asked,
”Is it true Dad, that in some parts of Africa
a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?”
Dad replied, “That happens in every country, son.”
__________ 
Then there was a woman who said,
”I never knew what real happiness was until I got married,
and by then, it was too late.”
__________ 
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
__________
If you want your spouse to listen and
pay strict attention to every word you say – talk in your sleep. 
__________
Just think, if it weren't for marriage,men would go through life
thinking they had no faults at all.
__________
First guy says, “My wife's an angel!”
Second guy remarks, “You're lucky, mine's still alive.”
__________ 
A Woman's Prayer
“Dear Lord,I pray for wisdom to understand a man;
to love and to forgive him; and for patience, for his moods.
Because Lord,if I pray for strength I'll just beat him to death!!”
__________ 

 Eight Words with two Meanings

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n. 
Female...... Any part under a car's hood. 
Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra. 
2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj. 
Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another. 
Male..... Playing football without a cup. 
3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n. 
Female... The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
Male... Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys. 

4. COMMITMENT (ko- mit-ment) n. 
Female..... A desire to get married and raise a family.
Male...... Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one. 

5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n. 
Female.... A good movie, concert, play or book. 
Male...... Anything that can be done while drinking beer. 

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n. 
Female.... An embarrassing by-product of indigestion.
Male...... A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding. 

7 MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n. 
Female...... The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve. 
Male..... Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it. 

8. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n. 
Female.... A device for changing from one TV channel to another. 
Male... A device for scanning through all 375 channels every 5 minutes. 

AND; 
He said.... I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in it. 
She said.... You wear pants don't you? 

He said..... Shall we try swapping positions tonight? 
She said... That's a good idea - you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart! 

He said..... What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you? 
She said ....Turn sideways and look in the mirror! 

He said..... Why are married women heavier than singlewomen? 
She said..... Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge. 
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Funny Happy Birthday Sayings

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http://happy.fm/30-funny-happy-birthday-sayings/

Funny Happy Birthday Sayings
  • “Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”  Author Unknown
  • “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”   Robert Frost
  • “I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.”   Phyllis Diller
  • “You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”   Bob Hope
  • “For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.”   John Glenn (Astronaut)
  • “Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too.”   Children’s birthday song
  • “Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.”   Ogden Nash
  • “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.”    Rev. Larry Lorenzoni
  • “The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.”  H. Prochnow
  • “Why was he/she born so beautiful. Why was she born at all. Because she had no say in it. No say in it at all.”   Children’s birthday song
  • “I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.”   Eva Gabor
Funny Age Sayings (Birthday or not)
  • “After 30, a body has a mind of its own.”   Bette Midler
  • “The first hundred years are the hardest.”   Wilson Mizner
  • “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.”   Ethel Barrymore
  • “Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.”   Joan Rivers
  • “The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. “   Oscar Wilde
  • “Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind,  and count each birthday with a grateful mind.”   Alexander Pope
  • “It takes a long time to grow young.”   Pablo Picasso
  • “Getting old ain’t for sissies.”   Betty Davis
  • “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”   Mark Twain
  • “Some people reach the age of sixty before others.”   Lord Hood
  • “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”   Mark Twain
  • “Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”   C. Joad
  • “Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.”   Maurice Chevalier
  • “The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.”    Jerry Wright
  • “Oh to be seventy again.”   Georges Clemenceau, on seeing a pretty girl on his 80th birthday
  • “The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”   Pope Paul VI
  • “The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.”   Raymond Duncan
  • “The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.”   Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”    Abraham Lincoln
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Stuff You Didn't Know You Didn't Know!

Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!

Men can read smaller
print than women can; women can hear better. 
------------ 

Coca-Cola was originally green.
------------ 
It is impossible to lick
your elbow. 
---------
The State with the
highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
------------ The percentage of
Africa that is wilderness: 28%
(now get this...)
------------ The percentage of
North America that is wilderness: 38% 
------------ The cost of raising
a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: 

$ 16,400
------------ The average number
of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour:
61,000
------------
Intelligent people
have more zinc and copper in their hair..
------------ The first novel ever
written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer.
------------ The San Francisco
Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
------------ Each king in a deck
of playing cards represents a great king from history: 

Spades - King David 

Hearts - Charlemagne 

Clubs -Alexander, the Great 

Diamonds - Julius Caesar
------------
111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
------------ If a statue in the park of a person on a horse
has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died because of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes 
------------ Only two people
signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. 
------------ Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

A. Their birthplace 
------------ Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? 

A.
Obsession
------------ Q.. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter 'A'? 

A. One thousand
------------
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?

A. All were invented
by women.
------------ Q. What is the only
food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey
------------ Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?

A. Father's Day
------------ In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the
phrase...'Goodnight , sleep tight' 
------------ It was the accepted
practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his new son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon. 
------------ In English pubs, ale
is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.' . . . 

It's where we get
the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's.
------------ Many years ago in
England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups.When they needed a refill ,
they used the whistle to get some service.
'Wet your whistle' is the phrase inspired by this practice. 
------------ At least 75% of
people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
------------ YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2013 when... 

1. You accidentally
enter your PIN on the microwave.

2. You haven't
played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help youcarry in the groceries...

7. Every commercial on television has a Web site at the bottom of the screen

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone,
which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life,
is now a cause for panic and
you turn around to go and get it !


10. You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)

12 You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy
to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

In Venice, Huge Cruise Ships Bring Tourists And Complaints

In Venice, Huge Cruise Ships Bring Tourists And Complaints

A massive cruise ships towers over Venice. Some 650 cruise ships now visit the Italian city annually, and critics say they threaten the city's fragile architecture.
A massive cruise ships towers over Venice. Some 650 cruise ships now visit the Italian city annually, and critics say they threaten the city's fragile architecture.
Courtesty of the No Big Ships Committee
The fragile architectural treasures of Venice are endangered by rising sea levels, and a growing number of critics now say the city and its canals are at risk from massive cruise ships as big as floating skyscrapers.
On an average day, tens of thousands of passengers lean over the railings of cruise ships that can be 300 yards long and 15 stories high. The tourists peer down at the majestic Doge's Palace as they sail into St. Mark's basin and down the Giudecca canal.
Matteo Casini, a professor of history, says the big ships are alien creatures and an insult to the Renaissance jewel.
"It's like being in a science-fiction movie," he says. "These monsters obscure us; they are twice the Palazzo Ducale [Doge's Palace]; they are twice longer than Piazza San Marco; they have dimensions and numbers nothing to do with Venice."
Casini complains that when big ships pass by, windowpanes tremble and vibrations lead to cracks in the walls of old buildings. He says that the towering ships interfere with television and Wi-Fi signals.
Last month, exasperated Venetians organized a three-day protest under the slogan, "Take Back The Lagoon." The high point was a symbolic boat blockade in which hundreds of people in small vessels filled the canal waving banners with the words, "No Big Ships."
"Big ships are destroying Venice," a woman lamented over a loudspeaker. A man followed her, proclaiming, "Each big ship spewing black smoke pollutes the equivalent of 14,000 cars, moves 135,000 tons of water and destroys the foundations of Venetian buildings."
A cruise ship in Venice sails by St. Mark's Square and Doge's Palace.
A cruise ship in Venice sails by St. Mark's Square and Doge's Palace.
Courtesy of No Big Ships Committeehttp://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/07/15/202347080/In-Venice-Huge-Cruise-Ships-Bring-Tourists-And-Complaints
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