Archive for the ‘Cool Stuff’ Category
You’ve got to love the wonderful world of apps these days. With the rise of technology brings the responsibility of new apps. Check out the new Adobe® Photoshop® Touch app that lets you interact with your tablet by combining images and applying effects that you can share with friends and family through Facebook and other networking sites. What a great way to play around with images and share them wherever you are.
With this new Adobe® Touch App, you can take a picture, manipulate it on the go, and then post it on any networking site to share with everyone you know. No more racing home to your computer to post an amazing photo that you just took and eager to share with your friends. Now you can create, edit, and share your photos from virtually anywhere. Isn’t the wonderful world of app technology fun?
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Well I guess I dont have an excuse to not be healthy and do some excersice. Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt—the highest rank in the martial art and combat sport Judo. Fukuda is now one of only four living people who’ve earned the tenth-degree (or dan) black belt. To put the accomplishment into better perspective, throughout history, only sixteen people have ever achieved this honor.
I need to get my butt in the gym or go and take karate and I can never use the excuse of I am too old to join karate because Sensei Keiko has proven that you are never too old to do karate or get the highest black belt.
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It’s fun to watch the little things that computers do that humans don’t catch right away. I was reading a recent post from a guy who noticed an alarming trend on Amazon. There was a book that was listed by two different retailers at almost $2 million. These merchants were using auto-pricing algorithms to set the prices, but something got lost in the translation.
Tags: algorithms, Amazon, mistakes, prices
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Most of the time when I read about new age architecture, it’s about buildings in Europe or in the Orient somewhere. So, I was a little surprised to see this building is actually in New York City.
Tags: architecture, new age, New York City
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Obama is getting set to start the money chase for his re-election. I know a lot of people are divided on how he has done this first four years. The detractors say get him out while his supporters say he did the best with the situation possible. However he plans to do it, it probably wouldn’t hurt to have some amazing display showcasing his successes.
Tags: campaign, money, Obama, reelection
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I am fascinated by history and this marks the 99th anniversary of the Titanic‘s sinking. We’ve all seen the James Cameron film at least once, but I was fascinated when Bob Ballard found it in 1986. So, I was rooting around the internet and found out that someone had posted a menu from the first class dining room. They had a ten course meal that would make many today blush at the decadence of it.
Tags: first class, meal, menu, Titanic
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I was recently at one of my niece’s science fairs and it took me back to the days of my own school experience. I never participated in the science for two reasons. The first reason was because I didn’t understand scientific experiments. I remembered doing experiments in scool and being befuddled at how each groups could have the same items, the same procedure and end up with the same results. The second reason for abstaining was because I wasn’t artistic and creative enough to do a custom exhibit design for the experiment. Some of those kids then and today are extremely talented at creating an exhibit for their experiment.
Tags: custom exhibit design, experiments, science fair
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How do you improve on wind turbine technology? You do what some scientists in England did. You make the turbines out of solar powered material to make an uber-turbine. This is like a turbine on steroids. It’s such a simple yet profoundly brilliant idea, you wonder why someone didn’t think of it sooner.
Tags: solar powered, technology, turbines
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I have a license plate frame from 2005, when the White Sox won the World Series. I figured it had more character and was more interesting than using the frame from the dealership which had their name on it. I would trade my frame in or a second to get this frame, though. You can type in 5 different messages and give the other drivers something to read and ponder during their commute.
Tags: frame, license plate, messages
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When it comes to making the most of the resources we have to work with, recycling wherever we can is not only smart but also practical. For instance, if you could use an old wine barrel to make a lounge recliner, then don’t you owe it to yourself and the environment to take advantage of that?
Tags: barrel, chair, recycling
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