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Did you grow up in different countries? Don’t feel at home anywhere? Then you could be a “third culture kid” or “cross cultural kid”. They’re also Army Brats, missionary kids, or international school kids. These are global nomads, adults or children who grew up in several cultures, and never feel at home anywhere. They have trouble answering the question “Where are you from?”.

Go check this site, there are some amazing stories of children of expatriates, global nomads and much more.

http://www.tckid.com 

Check this site for A collection of the World’s Geekiest Apple fans.

From the site:

Leander Kahney once said, “As a group, Apple fans act like Hells Angels or Trekkies, but they’re loyal to a brand of computers instead of motorcycles or sci-fi.”. Today, you’ll see just how loyal some of them are.

I’ve put put together a list of the World’s Geekiest Apple fans you’ll ever see. Here are some of the ways they express their devotion.

1. Jeremy Mehrle (single) - ÜberNerd Mac Collector

Geek Quote: “The bar is a scaled down of my original idea where I would have 3 whole walls of Mac Classics like at the end of the second Matrix movie (only I had the idea before the movie).” Source

This guy takes the cake on pure financial dedication to his geekdom. Jeremy spent more than $4000 on Ikea furniture alone! His undeniably beautiful basement museum, containing more than 75 pieces of Apple computer history, has never been seen by a woman. Check out this video on CNN.

2. Greg Packer (terminally single) - Penultimate Nerd

Claim to Geekfame: Being first-in-line to buy an iPhone (after waiting 110 hours, proudly neglecting most acts of hygiene).
Greg is a professional line-sitter and is famous for being one of those jerkwads who will push his way in front of you at concerts or the movie theatre. Unfortunately, in our geek-off, he only finishes second. Visit Greg’s site and donate your hard-earned cash to his worthy cause.

3. Kyle Purdy (in a relationship) - MiniNerd

Geek Powers: braces, lisp, glasses, button-down lapels, desire to learn.
14 year-old Kyle wrote a letter to Steve Jobs and landed a personal invite to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Only attending in the hopes of scoring some chicks, Kyle was brainwashed by Apple and forced to serve as Jobs’ supernerd sidekick. Check out Kyle’s interview on Planet Nerd.

For more, please check this site.

For all those who have an obsession for collecting wristwatches, the Ulysse Nardin Tellurium J. Kepler is a masterpiece worth possessing. The watch has been rightly named after Johannes Kepler, the 14th/15th century astronomer as it brings the Earth on to our wrists.

Depending on which part of the globe you live, you can order a watch showing Earth as seen from the North or South Pole. Sitting in any part of the world, you can know which part of the Earth has daylight and which is wrapped in darkness. The watch is divided in two parts where one part rotates once in a year and the other shows when there will be a solar or a lunar eclipse.

To be a proud owner of this magnificent platinum watch, you will have to pay a massive amount of $118, 000, and then can you boast of possessing one of the 99 watches to be made in the world.

Via: Gizmodo

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A complete list of the 27 iPod ads with videos and lyrics. This is the official list of all commercials released on TV.
It has the video, song title, AND lyrics.

Lots more pictures of the dolphin can be found here.

This extremely rare and beautiful “pink dolphin” was spotted and photographed by Capt. Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service on June 24th, 2007 during a charter fishing trip on Calcasieu Lake south of Lake Charles, LA.

It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin. It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama. After spotting the beautiful mammal cruising with a pod of four other dolphins, Rue and his guests Randy and Peyton Smith and Greg and Sam Elias of Monroe, LA idled nearby while watching and photographing the unusual sight for more than an hour.

Our expectations are high that we will see this amazing mammal again as it was in an area frequented by the gentle mammals and one confirmed report has it being spotted at least a month earlier in a nearby location. If it does turn up again, it will be a welcome surprise to our guests.

Very funny parody site from SU (stumbleupon) this morning.

iPoor, the iPhone killer 

from the site:

Move over, Jeff Han. The iPoor features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. With over 5 colorful buttons you can touch, or even press multiple buttons at the same time for true, patented multi-touch technology. iPoor goes back to the basics, allowing you to memorize phone numbers and thus increasing your IQ by 17%

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is thought to be caused by work tasks which are performed repeatedly, thereby causing muscular strain and eventually injury. RSI can be defined as inflammation of the tendons round a joint resulting from regular, repeated movements of that joint. And yes, you’ve guessed, poor posture, stress and overwork also contribute to the symptoms.

Repetitive movements, such as creating cross stitches, can often be responsible for this condition in some people. However, an awareness of the factors that cause the condition can be helpful in avoiding the pain and frustration that RSI can bring. RSI is not inevitable after cross stitching for long periods of time, so by bearing in mind a few simple precautions, you can spare yourself the experience of RSI altogether.

The repetitive movements used in cross stitching involve the change of the needle-holding hand from the front to the back of the fabric, and also that particular movement made in reverse, to bring the needle back through the fabric.

This can be made worse for you if you hold your work in your hand, or on a hand-held frame or hoop. The larger the hoop, the larger the movement made which may even involve shoulder and elbow joints as well as wrists and fingers.

The medical remedy for RSI is rest, meaning complete abstinence of the movement causing discomfort. But if the problem is not resolved in a few days it may be worth seeking medical advice. Anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy or heat treatment may be the answer.

When the pain eases, it is essential to try to have analysed the precise cause of the problem and plan to avoid the movement that is the root of the problem. This will prevent the recurrence of the pain. Also, there is little point in resting for a few days, only to return to the same habits of repetitive movement. Ideally, you should be thinking about taking a preventative approach to dealing with the problem.

To adapt the movements of your needle-holding hand, you can use a frame to secure your work, either from the floor or one your lap. This means that one of your hands is free to work on top of the fabric, and the other can work from below it. Many of the repetitive movements of creating stitches will be removed.

If you tense your muscles and tendons when you stitch, this can be a contributory factor in RSI. Relaxing those muscles is therefore essential. You may be bringing your work close to your eyes to get a better view (in which case, try using a magnifier or having your eyesight checked). Make sure you are sitting in a comfortable position with your back supported and your neck bent forwards as little as possible.

Using a high-count fabric can make you tense up your hand, as it is trickier to get the needle into the right place. If you use a lower count of fabric it will be easier to see the holes. Many people find relief from the wearing a wrist support helpful.

If you use long threads when you are stitching, then it is possible that your arm may need to move upwards in a repetitive way, gradually straining the muscles without you even being aware of the situation. Shorter lengths of thread can eliminate that difficulty. Some people find that if they keep their elbows from pointing outwards or rest them on the arm of the chair may help to cut down on movements.

It is worthwhile to consider how you habitually stitch in order to prevent any tension building up. Try to stop every now and again to see if you can detect any tension in your arms or shoulders, and release that tension. Warm-up exercises before you begin, stretching the arm, finger and shoulder muscles gently, can be beneficial. Taking a short break every few minutes can also break the repetitive cycle of movements.

Perhaps the single most effective habit to include in your daily life is that of relaxation, performed systemically as part of a conscious health promoting regime. Relaxation can be a great way to prevent RSI — and other medical conditions too. Remember that you do not need to curtail your stitching activities — just adapt the way you stitch.Article Source: http://ezinearticle.net

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.

• Stop jumping to conclusions. There are two common ways this habit increases people’s difficulties. First, they assume that they know what is going to happen, so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Human beings are lousy fortune-tellers. Most of what they assume is wrong. That makes the action wrong too. The second aspect of this habit is playing the mind-reader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they’re thinking. Wrong again, big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind of stupidity than by any other.
• Don’t dramatize. Lots of people inflate small setbacks into life-threatening catastrophes and react accordingly. This habit makes mountains out of molehills and gives people anxieties that either don’t exist or are so insignificant they aren’t worth worrying about anyway. Why do they do it? Who knows? Maybe to make themselves feel and seem more important. Whatever the reason, it’s silly as well as destructive.
• Don’t invent rules. A huge proportion of those “oughts” and “shoulds” that you carry around are most likely needless. All that they do for you is make you feel nervous or guilty. What’s the point? When you use these imaginary rules on yourself, you clog your mind with petty restrictions and childish orders. And when you try to impose them on others, you make yourself into a bully, a boring nag, or a self-righteous bigot.
• Avoid stereotyping or labeling people or situations. The words you use can trip you up. Negative and critical language produces the same flavor of thinking. Forcing things into pre-set categories hides their real meaning and limits your thinking to no purpose. See what’s there. Don’t label. You’ll be surprised at what you find.
• Quit being a perfectionist. Life isn’t all or nothing, black or white. Many times, good enough means exactly what it says. Search for the perfect job and you’ll likely never find it. Meanwhile, all the others will look worse than they are. Try for the perfect relationship and you’ll probably spend your life alone. Perfectionism is a mental sickness that will destroy all your pleasure and send you in search of what can never be attained.
• Don’t over-generalize. One or two setbacks are not a sign of permanent failure. The odd triumph doesn’t turn you into a genius. A single event—good or bad—or even two or three don’t always point to a lasting trend. Usually things are just what they are, nothing more.
• Don’t take things so personally. Most people, even your friends and colleagues, aren’t talking about you, thinking about you, or concerned with you at all for 99% of the time. The majority of folk in your organization or neighborhood have probably never heard of you and don’t especially want to. The ups and downs of life, the warmth and coldness of others, aren’t personal at all. Pretending that they are will only make you more miserable than is needed.
• Don’t assume your emotions are trustworthy. How you feel isn’t always a good indicator of how things are. Just because you feel it, that doesn’t make it true. Sometimes that emotion comes from nothing more profound than being tired, hungry, annoyed, or about to get a head-cold. The future won’t change because you feel bad—nor because you feel great. Feelings may be true, but they aren’t the truth.
• Don’t let life get you down. Keep practicing being optimistic. If you expect bad things in your life and work, you’ll always find them. A negative mind-set is like looking at the world through distorting, grimy lenses. You spot every blemish and overlook or discount everything else. It’s amazing what isn’t there until you start to look for it. Of course, if you decide to look for signs of positive things, you’ll find those too.
• Don’t hang on to the past. This is my most important suggestion of all: let go and move on. Most of the anger, frustration, misery, and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems. The more you turn them over in your mind, the worse you’ll feel and the bigger they’ll look. Don’t try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you’ve removed just about all its power to hurt you.

There are lots and lots of science sites out there doing similar things - LiveScience.com, Scienceblog.com, Scienceblogs.com, Sciam.com,physorg.com,ScientificBlogging.com, ScienceDaily.com. Except for ScienceDaily ( though I love those guys), they all do some original content and which one you prefer to read really comes down to where you fall on the political spectrum as much as the tone of the publication.

I help out on ScientificBlogging.com on occasion, mostly because I have a friend who is over there, and basically I help by distilling news releases into articles and making sure the pictures are pretty. I haven’t written any original articles yet, though a lot of people do. At some point when I write articles more regularly, I will do that too because it’s probably the most politically neutral of the science sites. You don’t have rants against religious people or certain political parties as part of their editorial or “what sells” policy.

This is a special case though, so I am writing today. I am just publishing this on my site because it has nothing to do with any of the science sites and I don’t want it to reflect on scientificblogging.com, who basically seem to be interested in creating the non-agenda driven site everyone claims to want.

Ordinarily I would tell anyone who is trying to get the word out about science writing that Reddit is the way to go. In my opinion ( and it’s just that ) Digg is more for technology and Reddit is more for science.

It turns out Reddit may not be a friend to science articles if you place articles from the wrong science sites.

Digg has ( or had ) a bury brigade, groups of malicious users who kept content off the front page by voting it down and voting their own things up. I am not sure what they get out of that since Digg doesn’t seem to award prizes or pay money for the people with the most popular articles. Actually, I don’t understand a lot of about Digg but I assumed that Reddit, being a more scientific readership, was also more mature.

I got an email yesterday from another volunteer editor at scientificblogging discussing why his articles never showed up on Reddit. I assumed it was a mistake. When I went to his profile it showed them. But then I submitted one and it never showed up either. It’s in my profile as submitted, it just never makes it to the main page.

I don’t know a lot of about the mechanics of Reddit but I started looking around and found my rating: -18. Now why would I have a - 18? It’s not like I put up advertising or post my own articles. I could even understand being 0 if no one liked what I put there but instead I am effectively buried before any of my posted articles get seen. They do not exist to anyone except me.

I found the common denominator and wrote my friend back and told him I had probably submitted too many for scientificblogging, around 15 over the last three months, so it looked like self-promotion. He didn’t seem to like that, since he had submitted only 4 articles and his content never showed up either, so he did a search and sent me the results.

Searching on ScienceDaily.com has about what you’d expect for the premiere science news release aggregator. Lots of posted articles from many different people.

Searching on scienceblogs gave him an entirely different result. Scienceblogs had a few different people over the last year but one stood out even under the quick search:

Wow. That grrlscientist person really loves scienceblogs. So he searched on her name and found not only does she love scienceblogs, she submits them exclusively ( or not, how much time would you spend searching after the first 25 are all from the same site? )

Then he highlighted the URL of the scienceblogs sites she submits and all of them are in the form: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/ - every single one.

So she is writing the articles on scienceblogs, submitting them to Reddit herself, and has 600 Karma ( the Reddit measure of popularity ) for doing so.

How is that not self-promotion or spam but I have -18 for submitting 5 articles per month ( out of 500 written each month ) from one site?

For submitting less than two dozen news articles, not even stuff I wrote, the same things you find on ScienceDaily or anywhere else that does news releases, I have -18 Karma. A scienceblogs writer is using Reddit as their personal PR organ and has over 600.

Reddit is not a big company, I assume, though they got a lot of money for what they do, and it may be that their Terms of Service are not carved in stone. It may also be that they don’t have an automatic mechanism to recognize self-promotion. If they do have an automatic mechanism to detect self-promotion, it would surely have caught someone from scienceblogs violating it so flagrantly.

It may be that Reddit has its own version of the Digg bury brigade. I doubt ScienceDaily has any grudges against ScientificBlogging, since they are 10X the readership and aren’t in the original content business, so it probably isn’t them. Likewise, LiveScience isn’t worried about anyone small.

On the other hand, Scienceblogs seems to think they invented the concept of science and blogging, even though scienceblog.com and lots of others were around before them. About scientificblogging.com, one of their people wrote:

wordmunger Jan 30th 2007 - “I don’t think we need to worry about it as competition — it’s a poor imitation of ScienceBlogs. It hurts my eyes just to look at it.”

Scientificblogging.com doesn’t do tirades against Republicans so it is truly not a competitor, it does news, original content from some pretty famous writers and allows science writers to host their own blogs on the site. That’s 0 for 3 in comparison to scienceblogs, unless you consider fame for political polemics the scientific kind.

Heck, some people over there even think they invented putting social news site submissions below their articles, a real revolutionary concept in 2007:

Tim Murtaugh Jan 30th 2007 - “Dude — they stole my icons to Digg, Newsvine, etc.”

Yes, they think that they invented both science writing and the little icons that social news sites provide to make it easier for readers. I wonder if scienceblogs people think they invented Drupal also?

Again, it would seem unlikely Reddit is doing this as any kind of formal policy. Favoritism of any kind in the democracy of social news will get you killed by your readers.

Or will it? The obvious test is to post content from a different site and see if it shows up. So he did. Here is how it looked a few hours later:

Yes, it’s right there. It immediately got 2 down votes, so maybe the Reddit bury brigade hates USA Today or marks anyone who posts science content from scientificblogging.com for termination. But the scientificblogging.com posts still are nowhere to be found. Only in the personal prefs part of the submitter.

So ScientificBlogging.com posts are magically prohibited from even showing up but an author on scienceblogs doing blatant self-promotion has 3 up in the span of 2 hours without being marked or anyone thinking that is out of the ordinary.

If this gets published at all, it’s because Reddit support never responded to the email questions about what constitutes spam and self-promotion. If it is published I am going to have someone put it up on Digg because I know on Digg it has at least a fair chance of being seen.

It’s unlikely you will find that on Reddit any time soon.

Calling all Millionaires. We are putting together a list of everyone in this industry that has made a million dollars from domain names. The list is long but we need your help to complete the list.Please submit names of fellow domainers that have made it big in the comments below. We will alter the post and put the millionaires that people suggest directly into the post.

As new people join the list we will try and do a blog post about them. Also as we get to it we will do a post about everyone already on the list.

Adam Dicker (DNForum)
Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ)
Anthony Peppler (Peppler)
Bill Mushkin (Name.com)
Bob Parsons (GoDaddy)
Bruce Tonkin (Melbourne IT)
Chad Folkening (eCorp)
Champ Mitchell (Network Solutions)
Chris Ambler (eNom)
Chris Maroney (Original Afternic)
Colin Yu (Reinvent)
Dan Parisi (WhiteHouse.com)
Dan Warner (Fabulous)
Dean Shannon (Fabulous)
Eliot Noss (Tucows)
Eric Harrington (Moniker)
Eric Rice (Bulk Register)
Frank Schilling (Name Administration)
Fred Hsu (Oversee)
George Decarlo (Dotster)
Gregory J. Manriquez (NameDrive)
Howard Neu (Traffic)
Jay Westerdal (DomainTools)
John Kane (eNom)
Jon Whelan (Original Afternic)
Joyce Lin (007 Names)
JP Vazquez (Capitol Domains)
Kevin Ham (Reinvent)
Kevin Medina (RegisterFly.com)
Lawrence Ng (Oversee)
Marc Ostrofsky (Business.com)
Markus Schnermann (Keyword Domains)
Matt Bentley (Sedo)
Michael Arrington (Pool.com)
Michael Collins (Afternic)
Michael Kovatch (IPhone.com)
Michael Miller (BuyDomains)
Mike B (Weblog.com)
Mike Mann (BuyDomains)
Monte Cahn (Moniker)
Page Howe (Seniors.com)
Paul Stahura (eNom)
Peter Forman (Register.com)
Pinky Brand (idNames, Network Solutions, Arcemus)
Ray King (Snapnames)
Richard Forman (Register.com)
Rick Schwartz (Traffic)
Richard Kirkendall (NameCheap.com)
Rob Hall (Pool.com)
Roger Collins (Afternic)
Roland Chemtob (Branded Holding Group)
Ron Wiener (Snapnames)
Russ Goodwin (Naugus Limited)
Sahar Sarid (Recall Media Group)
Sean Muller (eNom)
Taryn Naidu (Pool.com)
Tim Schumacher (Sedo)
Thunayan K. Alghanim (FMA.com)
Vern Jurovich (Proformainc.com)
Will Pemble (Web.com)
Yun Ye (UltSearch)

I know I have forgotten about 300 people so please help us out.