Escape Plan

Posted by admin on May 30, 2008

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Double Faced Celebs

Posted by admin on May 30, 2008

Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton

Will Smith and Bill Clinton

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

Queen and John Elton

Jessica Biel and Julia Roberts

Alice Copper and El Pacino

Carmen Electra and Elizabeth Hurley

Condoleezza Rice and Oprah Winfrey

Kofi Annan and Bill Cosby

50 Cent and Tom Cruise

Katherine Heigl Milla Jovivich

Maryl Streep and Paris Hilton

Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley

Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp

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Fireworks Art

Posted by admin on May 30, 2008

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Camouflage Lizard

Posted by admin on May 27, 2008

There is a Camouflaged lizard hidden on that tree trunk. Can you find it?

Lizard


Found along the Western Ghats, live in the trees.  They are masters at camouflaging their bodies, and if they dont move its almost impossible to find them.


Here is the lizard in better detail..

To make it a little more obvious..

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Spiritual Quotes

Posted by admin on Mar 5, 2008


1. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

2. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

3. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.


4. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

5. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.


6. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.



7. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

8. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Bhagwat Gita

9. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

10. The only test of good things is that they make us strong.
Vivekananda


11
. Is it not tremendously blasphemous to believe against reason? What right have we not to use the greatest gift that God has given to us? I am sure God will pardon a man who will use his reason and cannot believe, rather than a man who believes blindly instead of using the facilities He has given him.
Vivekananda


12. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Vivekananda


13. The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
Vivekananda


14. This I have seen in life, he who is overcautious about himself falls into dangers at every step; he who is afraid of losing honor and respect, gets only disgrace; he who is always afraid of loss always losses.
Vivekananda


15. In judging others we always judge them by our own ideals. That is not as it should be. Everyone must be judged according to his own ideal, and not by that of anyone else.
Vivekananda


16. The first act of true teaching must be that the teaching should not contradict reason.
Vivekananda


17. In wealth is the fear of poverty, in knowledge the fear of ignorance,in beauty the fear of age, in fame the fear of backbiters, in successthe fear of jealousy, even in body is the fear of death. Everything inthis earth is fraught with fear. He alone is fearless who has given upeverything.
Vivekananda

18. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi


19
. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi


20. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Gandhi


21. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi

22. That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true knowledge, all else is only a negation of knowledge.
Ramakrishna


23. If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
Russian Proverb


24. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Mille


25. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau


26. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau


27
. This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

28. The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow


29. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

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Top 10 Delicious Foods to Reduce Stress

Posted by admin on Mar 3, 2008

Stress makes us old before our time. If the job has you stressed out, consider bringing some stress balls to work. Maybe a custom cooler with healthy snacks and beverages will help take the edge off your day. You could even find logo products with your favorite stress busting slogans on them. Don’t worry, be healthy!

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Vista & Hillary Clinton: Marketing Money Well Spent?

Posted by admin on Jan 29, 2008

So this morning while I was flipping thought my 100 plus cable channels trying to find something remotely non “presidential election” related and I stumbled upon a story on Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton. The clip was talking about how she had hit a top fund raising mark, making more the 26 million bucks in a quarter.. WOW. They then went to say how Senator Clinton was a huge hit in Hollywood with loads of top celebrity donations. Senator Clinton even has her husband former President Bill Clinton campaigning for her….thats like twice as much coverage as the next candidate both with the people and in the press.

Our good pal Hillary sure seems like she has lots of rich friends and a good deal of campaigning horsepower. But yet in the Iowa Caucus, she came in 3rd and in overall delegate totals she is behind Senator Obama. So sure she has won a few in New Hampshire and Nevada, but where the rubber hits the road, with her husbands continued popularity and all that star power behind her, she is still coming up second best.

This got me to thinking, being a techie and all…whats happening in the tech world where the hype is greatly outweighed by the actual users and results. Welcome Microsoft Vista. Microsoft would lead you to believe that 88 million copies of Vista have been sold to rave reviews like the ones here, here and of course here.

Microsoft’s marketing machine has to be one of the largest in the world, pour 500+ million dollars into the marketing of Windows Vista. How many of these copies of Vista are actually users who WANT it or are forced to settle with it when they purchase a new PC. Kinda like buying a car you are stuck with the ugley steering wheel, like it or not.

MS wants you to believe Vista is the greatest thing since Windows 95, but don’t trust them. What do the users have to say on the matter. Oh the fun doesn’t end there. People are now so upset at Windows Vista, there are guides on how to downgrade to XP and even better Dell selling new PC’s with XP again. Hmm something isn’t right.

This article isn’t bash piece of Senator Clinton or MS Vista, as I applaud the Senetor in the work she is doing and the movement she has started –but a look at the actual product. No matter how much marketing money you spend, if the product isn’t a good one—or if the benefits aren’t any better then what you already have, no one will vote for or purchase your product. Having money and doing great marketing your product, is great, but if the product is faulty, its money not well spent.

Author: Thomas Clifford
Tom Clifford is a printing guy working in prepress and lives in Wisconsin with his wife and 4 kids. He enjoys counting the shags in his carpets, parallelograms and playing with his 8 month old Emma.

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God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted

Posted by admin on Jan 26, 2008


When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda was an atheist turned believer who later became a spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power. He was the first Hindu Sage to come to the West, where he introduced Eastern thought at the World’s Parliament of Religions. More information is available on him on Wikipedia.

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Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

Posted by admin on Jan 22, 2008

Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

2. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

3. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

5. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

6. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

7. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”

8. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

9. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

10. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.


Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes

11. Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

12. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

13. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.


Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes

14. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

15. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

16. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

17. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

18. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

19. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

20. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts..


Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain

21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

22. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

23. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

24. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


Robert Frost Inspirational Quotes

26. The best way out is always through.

27. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

28. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

29. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

30. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Inspirational Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

31. You must be the change you want to see in the world.

32. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

33. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

34. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

35. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

36. Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

37. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.

38. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems”

39. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.


Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Quotes

40. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

41. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

42. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

43. If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.


Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

44. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

45. If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. …Everyone says, “Woe unto you people!!” Who says, “Woe unto me that I cannot help you?” The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

46. Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

47. The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.


Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes

48. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

49. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

50. If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle

51. Hope is a waking dream.

52. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Voltaire Quotes

53. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

54. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

55. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.


Michael Jordan Inspirational Quotes

56. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

57. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman

58. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Anonymous

59. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ford

60. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford

61. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey

62. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Goethe

63. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

64. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Truman Capote Inspirational Quotes

65. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

66. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

67. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

68. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer

69. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Unknown

70. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

71. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Unknown

72. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Unknown

73. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Stanford

74. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

75. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond

76. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman

77. In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar

78. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach

79. If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Unknown

80. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

81. Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt

82. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

83. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

84. The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.
Margo Kaufman

85. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

86. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
John Cage

87. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach

88. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

89. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.

90. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard

91. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

92. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney Harris

93. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Peter Drucker.

94. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster’s Law

95. We see things not as they are, but as we are.
H. M. Tomlinson

96. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

97. There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morleys.

98. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

99. If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud

100. Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks

Inspiration takes many forms.  Maybe inspiration your favorite movie quote.  Maybe its a famous person with a disability.  Maybe you share a celebrity birthday with one of your favorite movie stars.  Whatever gets you out of bed in the morning can be considered inspiration.  For the rest of us, its strong coffee and a kick in th pants!

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Breaking MacWorld News: Jobs To Wear Black Shirt/Jeans

Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2008

It’s been a wild week of anticipation for Apple fans. As the Digg Macworld countdown counts down at the top of the homepage, I constantly reload the Apple section (both popular and upcoming) for any glimmer of rumor or, dare I say it, confirmed news. Sadly, the rumors are all based on photoshopped educated guesses and the only confirmed news thus far has been the always vague banner erected pre-maturely just to give the fanboys something to decode/fap over.

The wait for confirmed news is over.

I have it from a very good source that Steve Jobs is going to wear a black shirt and blue jeans tomorrow. I can’t reveal how I know this source or how close they are to Apple HQ, but I’d bet my kids’ college money if I could find a bookie willing to take a wager on a keynote wardrobe. My source has revealed to me that the shirt will be a polycotton blend and the blue jeans will be held up by the skill of a tailor- not a belt.

The most surprising wardrobe news? Apparently there’s somethings in the air at Macworld: Steve’s balls. No underwear for this CEO. That’s about as 2007 as ethernet ports and optical drives.

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