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Friday, September 07, 2007

FreeThesaurus.net

FreeThesaurus.net is a new online thesaurus service offered by DonationCoder.com. We expect it to deliver fast, fine, free thesaurus search results to English language lovers around the globe in their continuous quest for the right words.

If you're like me and seemed to get stuck using the same word over and over then FreeThesaurus.net is for you. Not only are there over 30K entries with over 2M synonyms but the interface and usage is very clean and well designed.

Link:
http://freethesaurus.net/

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

  • "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
  • "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
  • "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
  • "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
  • "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
  • "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
  • "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  • "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
  • "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
  • "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
  • "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
  • "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  • "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Photos: The 10 ugliest cars we've seen

Photos: The 10 ugliest cars we've seen: "we've rounded up some of the least attractive autos on the road. While we're all for innovative styling, bold accents, and daring design cues, there are times when you just have to tell it like it is."

Link:
http://crave.cnet.com/...

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Poor Pluto

http://.../3dportfolio_poor_pluto_high.html

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith died

Kinda of sad...

Link:
http://.../story/0,2933,250974,00.html

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Recutting movie trailers is the next big thing

First, there was numa numa which launched the online videos of people making fools of themselves lipsyncing to songs. Now there is a growing trend to recut movies trailers to make movies appear as they were never meant to be. Some of these trailers are quite professionally done. See below for some of the better ones.

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Saturday, February 03, 2007

No tech: Open a locked door with a tennis ball

What? Can this actually work? Anyone out there confirm this?

Link:
http://.../How_to_Open_Your_Locked_Door_with_a_Tennis_Ball

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