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Archives: October 2007
InciWeb: National Fire Incidents And you can get an RSS feed for your own state's incidents! (there's no recent incidents for Illinois.)
magnus meets magnus Funny photo comic of a 80s style Ultra Magnus meeting a 00s style Magnus.
Top 10 Streets of America Chicago's Michigan Avenue is on the list!
No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11 A list of questions where Guiliani answered with September 11th
corrupt100807 Illinois is sixth.
The Weirdest Insects in the World The Longest Insect.
The Biggest.
Strongest animal on earth.
Weird Lifecycle.
Violent Sex.
Bizarre Body Parts.
Trap and Torture.
Unstoppable Swarmers.
Gruesome Bloodsuckers.
Deadliest of all.
The Prettiest (discounting butterflies).
The strangest of all.
4th Largest U.S. City is Prison, USA 1 of every 100 citizens are incarcerated.
The Manliest Drinks in the World 8. Rusty Nail
7. Gin and Tonic
6. Scotch and Soda (or just Scotch on the rocks)
5. B&B
4. Gibson
3. Manhattan
2. Martini
1. Old Fashioned
3 Trends Most Likely to Impact Future of Newspaper Cartoons 1) Gannett newspapers are looking to reduce their paper size from 48 inches to 44 inches.
2) The emergence of more free dailies in the US.
3) The internet is going to kill off βbloated newspapers.β
10 Coolest Small Towns Millerton, NY
Milford, PA
Yachats, OR
Waitsburg, WA
Pa'ia, HI
Parkville, MO
Silver City, NM
Peterborough, NH
Tuscumbia, AL
Collinsville, CT
caffeinecontent.jpg (JPEG Image, 261x410 pixels) in mg, per 12 ounces:
Pepsi one 57.1
Mountain Dew 54.8
Diet Coke 46.3
Dr. Pepper 42.6
Pepsi 38.9
Diet Pepsi 36.7
Coca-Cola 33.9
12 Investing Mistakes I've Made (and How You Can Learn From Them) 1. Not investing soon enough
2. Not knowing the basics
3. Chasing past performance
4. Experimenting with my IRA
5. Not paying attention to expense ratios
6. Not paying attention to distributions
7. Not paying attention to asset allocation
8. Ignoring diversification
9. Selling winners and keeping losers
10. Cost averaging down
11. Investing without a goal
12. Selling on corrections & buying at the top of the market
100 Resources for Interviewers and Candidates Some of the stuff: Sample Interview Questions, Answers for Candidates, Types of Interviews
10 More Future Web Trends The last one really caught me: 10. Blog reading automatically input into our brain.
Here's the other nine:
1. Integration into everyday devices
2. Hyperlocal
3. Data retrievel/manipulation agents
4. Read/Write/Request Web (a.k.a. a "living machine agent")
5. User-controlled, open Internet Identity
6. New forms of Internet Interaction
7. Extended Reality
8. Expert Systems
9. Personalized Medicine
The top 10 hand gestures you'd better get right 1. The Wanker
2. The Thumbs-Up
3. The Moutza
4. The Dog Call
5. The A-OK
6. The Cutis
7. The V Sign
8. The Fig
9. The Corna
10. The Finger
Faces in Places funny photos of inanimate objects that look like human faces
The Top 10 Greenest Cities - Yahoo! Real Estate Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Boulder, Burlington, Madison, New York, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Chicago
Granderson joins Mays, Schulte in rare club Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson joined Willie Mays and Frank "Wildfire" Schulte as the only players in major league history with 20 stolen bases, 20 homers, 20 triples and 20 doubles.
Top 100 Foods to Improve Your Productivity Categorized by: Energy and Brain Foods, Eyesight, Productivity Boosters, Avoiding Colds, Improving Digestion and Sleep, Low Fat Filling Foods, Heart Healthy, Long-Term Illness Prevention
72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life 1. Make a list of your top 4-5 important things.
2. Evaluate your commitments.
3. Evaluate your time.
4. Simplify work tasks.
5. Simplify home tasks.
And 67 more
What $207 Million Looks Like DEA agents raided a home of Meth dealers in suburban Mexico and discovered $207 million cash piled in a back bedroom.
List of artificial objects on the Moon We've left a lot of crap on the Moon.
Monopoly game piece psychology e.g. Race Car: You are a friendly and popular person who is generally good at reading peoples emotions. However, you are often afraid to voice your opinions. This is probably because a lot of your opinions are kind of stupid.
7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make 1) Confirmation Bias
2) Hindsight Bias
3) Clustering Illusion
4) Recency Effect
5) Anchoring Bias
6) Overconfidence Effect
7) Fundamental Attribution Error
A Single Sheet of Paper paper creations by Peter Callesen
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