Damn Cool Pics

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• Backyard PVC Roller Coaster With 12ft Drop
• 19 Amazing Food Tips
• 25 Strange Google Search Suggestions
• Snoozebox: The Shipping Container Hotel
• Things That Can Affect The Skin [Infographic]
• Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror
• Original vs. Remake Comparison

Backyard PVC Roller Coaster With 12ft Drop Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:47 PM PDT The best back yard pvc rollor coaster on youtube it stands 12 ft tall its made of pvc pipe treated lumber and lots of concreate. I wish my father built something like this for me when I was a kid.

19 Amazing Food Tips Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:23 PM PDT Did you know that Doritos can be used as kindling? Or that you can put a wooden spoon on a pot to keep it from boiling over? Buzzfeed is here with nineteen great food-related tips that will make life a heck of a lot easier from now on. Cut hot dogs in spirals to improve the wiener-eating experience.

25 Strange Google Search Suggestions Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT Google search is a gold mine of laughter thanks to its auto-suggestions. Seriously, either people have a strange sense of humor, or they're just plain stupid.

Snoozebox: The Shipping Container Hotel Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:34 PM PDT Snoozebox is a portable hotel consisting of shipping container living units that can be easily transported, stacked, and arranged into hotels of 40 to 400 plus rooms. Each container is outfitted with two to four rooms, and each room has its own bathroom, Wi-Fi and TV. Snoozebox is based in the UK, but they will set up a hotel anywhere in the world. Upon arriving at a location, the Snoozebox team can get a hotel up and running in about 48 hours. A 320 room Snoozebox hotel is currently in place in Essex, UK to house staff for the London Olympics.

Things That Can Affect The Skin [Infographic] Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:54 PM PDT Apart from any inherited factors that determine what type of skin you have, there are many factors that affect the way your skin looks and feels. In the following infographic, published by HealthySkinSolutions, learn what these factors are and how they affect the skin is important if your goal is to keep your skin looking and feeling its best for as long as possible. Click on Image to Enlarge.

Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT This photo, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, captures the Curiosity as it's parachuting to the surface. I've never seen anything like this before. Here's an explanation of what exactly we're looking at here: Via Buzzfeed

Original vs. Remake Comparison Posted: 07 Aug 2012 05:15 PM PDT It's interesting to compare how films used to look like and what actors played in them compared to remakes. Plus, I'm sure you didn't know some of the movies appearing in this list were actually remakes and not originals! Total Recall 21 Jump Street Footloose The Parent Trap Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory King Kong Freaky Friday Hairspray Straw Dogs The Pink Panther Scarface The Wizard of Oz The Thomas Crown Affair The Longest Yard Buffy the Vampire Slayer Arthur Planet of the Apes House of Wax Psycho Father of the Bride The Stepford Wives Ocean's 11 The Italian Job True Grit Via: usmagazine.com

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Is Your Linkbuilding Working? How to Easily Check Using Webmaster Tools and a Pivot Chart

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Is Your Linkbuilding Working? How to Easily Check Using Webmaster Tools and a Pivot Chart Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT Posted by electricmice This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Is all that time spent doing linkbuilding helping you acquire links faster than you would acquire them without linkbuilding? This guide will help you determine if the rate with which your site is acquiring links is any different than the rate your site acquires links naturally. Pulling the Data To start this process you will need to have already verified your site in webmaster tools. Once verified, navigate to the Traffic>>Links To Your Site section of webmaster tools. From here you will see three sections: who links the most, your most linked content, and how your data is linked. Click "More>>" under the who links the most section. Once you have clicked for more, you should see a list of domains that are linking to you, the number of links, and the number of linked pages. What you will also now see is the ability to download the latest links. While I love Google docs, for this example I recommend downloading a CSV and using Excel. Using the Data to Identify if You are Picking up Links Any Faster than Before You Started Linkbuilding You should now have a CSV file open in excel with two columns, one with the linking domain and the other with the date the link was acquired (or spotted by Google). The first thing I recommend is formatting the data as a table. What you are going to do now is split up the list of links into pieces based on the date you or your SEO company started doing linkbuilding. If you stared linkbuilding six months ago, select the last six months of links and cut and paste them in a new column. This New Column will be the links after you started linkbuilding (or hired someone to do linkbuilding) The next step is to create another new column that has a date range equal to your date range for your "linkbuilding" column. We can call this column "Just before Linkbuilding". In this column you will cut and past the links from the original "links" making sure that you do not get out of position vertically within the list. You now have three columns of links all in alignment with their corresponding dates. It's time to turn this data into a Pivot Chart. Creating a Pivot Chart With you data all setup you can now insert a pivot chart. You should now see a blank pivot table and chart. In the lower right corner of the screen you will see an area that has four sections ( Report Filter, Column Labels, Row Labels, Values) Drag the items from the Pivot table Field list into each of these boxes as you see here. As you do this you will notice your pivot table and chart come to life. The next step is to group the dates by month to make the pivot chart a bit easier to read. To do this, within your pivot table, right click on any date and select group. Now Select Years and Months and hit Ok. You should now have a nice easy to read chart with your links broken into three sections and organized by year and month. Mine looks like this: The next step is to add trendlines to each of the three sections (data series), to really identify any changes in link acquisition rate. I find the easiest way to do this is to right click on one of the columns in the chart and select "add trendline". You will be presented with a set of trendline options. There are two options I suggest changing, the first option is I suggest selecting set Intercept, this will result in all of your trendlines intercepting the x axis at 0, the second recommendation is setting the trendline color to match the series you are creating this trendline for, it just makes it easier to look at. The Results You now have a chart that clearly shows the liner trend with which your site is acquiring links broken down into segments based on your time linkbuilding (or hiring someone to do linkbuilding), just before linkbuilding, and historically before that. If you don't see a change in slope between the trendline for before linkbuilding and during it, something is probably not working with your linkbuilding campaign. Note: for greater accuracy, you would NOT set intercept to zero and you would compare the slopes of the lines, but for a quick view and more organized graph, this gets the job done. Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!

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An Administration-Wide Response to the Drought

Your Daily Snapshot for Wednesday, August 8, 2012   An Administration-Wide Response to the Drought Throughout much of the country, communities are struggling with one of the worst droughts to strike the U.S. in decades. And President Obama has directed the federal government -- from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Army Corps of Engineers -- to provide assistance to farmers, ranchers, and small businesses wrestling with this crisis. The President has described this as an "all-hands-on-deck response." Yesterday, he said, "We're going to continue to solicit ideas from state and local organizations, faith-based organizations, not-for-profit groups, the private sector, and most of all, the farmers and ranchers that are directly impacted, to find additional ways that we can help -- because when there’s a disaster like this, everybody needs to pull together." Learn more about the administration's all-hands-on-deck response. President Barack Obama meets with the White House Rural Council to discuss ongoing efforts in response to the drought, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 7, 2012. Among those attending with the President were, from left, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) In Case You Missed It Here are some of the top stories from the White House blog: Empowering Young People to Build a Kinder, Braver World We must all stay focused on ending bullying because no young person, or their loved ones, should have to endure the pain, agony, and loss to our families, schools, and communities that can come with bullying. A Smarter Approach to Regulation This White House White Board lays out the facts and shows that we can protect health and safety while promoting economic goals. Finding Inspiration in the Champions of Change This video introduces some remarkable Americans who are part of the White House's Champions of Change program, which celebrates the work of everyday Americans who are leading extraordinary initiatives to strengthen their communities. Today's Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). 10:35 AM: The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews 10:50 AM: The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Denver, Colorado 2:10 PM: The President arrives Denver, Colorado 3:20 PM: The President delivers remarks at a campaign event 5:10 PM: The President departs Denver, Colorado en route Grand Junction, Colorado 6:00 PM: The President arrives Grand Junction, Colorado 7:25 PM: The President delivers remarks at a campaign event 8:30 PM: The President departs Grand Junction, Colorado en route Pueblo, Colorado 9:15 PM: The President arrives Pueblo, Colorado Get Updates Sign up for the Daily Snapshot Stay Connected     Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr Google+     This email was sent to e0nstar1.blog@gmail.com Manage Subscriptions for e0nstar1.blog@gmail.com Sign Up for Updates from the White House Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy Please do not reply to this email. Contact the White House The White House • 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW • Washington, DC 20500 • 202-456-1111