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Adolf Hitler's Paintings
Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills
Back To The Future 25 Years Later
How to Open an Airplane Lavatory Door from the Outside
Keanu Reeves Practicing Tai Chi Next To A Parking Lot
Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Sausages

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 06:15 AM PDT

A compilation of cool moments showing nothing is impossible for the humankind. Or, are we too supercilious?

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:34 AM PDT

Hitler is known for being one of the most evil and murderous leaders in history. All of these Adolf Hitler's paintings are from 1914-1917. It's interesting to see that the bloodiest dictator of the 20th century was painting flowers, cute dogs and women.

Adolf Hitler, failed dictator of Germany during the Second World War, produced a variety of oil and watercolor paintings. In addition to being responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the genocide of six million Jews, Hitler was an artist who used cathedrals and flowers as subject matter for many of his paintings.

Before becoming involved in politics, Hitler applied several times to The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, hoping to further his artistic career. He was turned down each time, and was forced to live on the streets, selling paintings to tourists and exchanging them in restaurants for meals.

Series of Paintings by Hitler Depicting the Areas He Visited around Europe

Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:18 AM PDT

Alexandria Mills from United States got the 2010 Miss World crown in the .

Miss World contest was conducted at the venue Beauty Crown Cultural Center at Sanya located in the Hainan Island in China.

Miss Botswana Emma Wareus reached the second place and Miss Venezuela Adriana Vasini got third place.

Beauties from 120 Countries participated in the Miss World Competitions.

Back To The Future 25 Years Later

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:43 AM PDT

The Original "Back to the Future" movie first hit the big screen on July 3, 1985. More than 25 years ago. With the budget of $19,000,000 the movie grossed almost $200,000,000 in the USA only. Now, 25 years and 2 sequels later it's still one of the everyone's favorite movies. Let's see how the stars of "Back to the Future" have changed since then.

Left: Michael J. Fox as Marty, which turned the star series "Family Ties" in a full-fledged idol of millions. Right: Fox today with his co-star actor Christopher Lloyd. Fox, a victim of Parkinson's disease, is an active participant in research of this disease.

Lea Thompson, who played his mother Marty McFly (left) in all three parts of the movie "Back to the Future, then switched to the TV series" Caroline in the City. Right: Lea Thompson at the event, organizing the John Wayne Cancer on September 25 in Santa Monica, California.

Probably better known for her role in the sitcom Jim Ignatovsky "Taxi", Christopher Lloyd as Doc played in all three parts of the movie "Back to the Future." Later in his career he has not once appeared on the screen - the role of Scrooge in the 2008 movie "A Christmas Carol" and Willy Loman in the 2010 film "Death of a Salesman." Left: Lloyd as Doc wonderful. Right: Lloyd at a party in Los Angeles in November 2009.

Comedian Tom Wilson played Biff Tannen - the enemy his father Marty in all three parts of the movie "Back to the Future, as well as grandchildren and great-grandson of Biff. He starred in the TV series "Crank and Geeks" and voiced many cartoons. Wilson is also an artist and performs in "Gum Club. Right: actor performs in a club in June 2008.

Crispin Glover played Marty McFly's father George (left). Later, he starred in "Hot Tub Time Machine", recorded an eccentric album, published experimental books and directed several films himself.

American Malaysian origin, Claudia Wells played Marty's girlfriend Jennifer Parker (top), but due to illness of the mother of two extensions of the movie was not. Since 1991, Wells sells menswear under the label «Armani Wells». Below: She arrives at the 25th anniversary of the movie "Back to the Future" in Chicago in February 2010.

Better known for his dramatic role in the movie 1995 "Leaving Las Vegas" for which she was nominated and Oscar (Best Actress) and a Golden Globe, Elisabeth Shue replaced Claudia Welles in the role of Marty's girlfriend Jennifer Parker in the sequel . She starred in such films as "Deconstructing Harry" (1997), "Hamlet 2" (2008) and "Don McKay" (2010). She has a brother - the actor Andrew Shue.

The bald actor James Pull known for his roles strict "powers", including the school principal Gerald Strickland in Back to the Future "and" Back to the Future 2 ". He also starred in many television series including the series "Nero Wolfe Mystery."

Actor Casey Semashko played one of Biff gang named 3-D, who had a 3-D glasses in the trilogy "Back to the Future." He also starred in films such as "Stand by Me" (1986), "Biloxi Blues" (1989), "Of Mice and Men" (1992), as well as in the TV series "Combat." Below: The actor at the premiere in the cinema in New York in July 2007.

Another member of the gang Biff in the first two parts of the movie - Match (top left). His played Billy Zane, who later starred in "Phantom" (1996) and in the famous "Titanic" (played by the groom heroine Kate Winslet). Below: The actor at the ceremony, Grammy.

In the third part of the movie "Back to the Future" Mary Stinburgen played Clara Clayton (top), which falls Doc. Later, an actress nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Supporting Actress for the film" Melvin and Howard "(1980), an award« Satellite Award »for the 2003-2005 TV series" The New Joan of Arc. " Married to actor Ted Danson in 1995.

Actor Elijah Wood made his debut in the second part of "Back to the Future" as "boy-play" (top left). He had a cameo role, but Wood has become a real star after such films as "The Ice Storm" (1993), the trilogy "Lord of the Rings" (1999-2003) and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004).

All three films directed by Robert Zemeckis for working with the leading actor Michael J. Fox. Zemeckis also directed such films as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Forrest Gump" (for which he received an Oscar as best director) and "The Polar Express." Below: the director at the Film Festival in New York in April 2010.

How to Open an Airplane Lavatory Door from the Outside

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:35 AM PDT

How to Open an Airplane Lavatory Door from the Outside.. It's simple.

Unlocking a bathroom from the outside could save a life in the right scenario. DCP is not responsible for any of the shenanigans you may cause knowing how to unlock this type of airplane bathroom. We hope you'll use this knowledge for good. Or possibly to prank your college friends.

* Step 1: Approach locked lavatory
* Step 2: Lift "LAVATORY" sign
* Step 3: Slide the knob into the unlocked position
* Step 4: Cackle because you've just unlocked the bathroom from the outside

Source: hipmunk

Keanu Reeves Practicing Tai Chi Next To A Parking Lot

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:19 AM PDT

Keanu practiced Tai Chi yesterday. Here's how it went.

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Keanu parks his Porsche.

Finds a shady area.

And begins his Tai Chi exercises.

Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Sausages

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:55 AM PDT

A sausage is a food made from ground meat, and, usually, salt, herbs, and spices.

Typically the sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may be removed afterwards.

Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying, or smoking. (Source: Wikipedia)

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5 Datasets You Can Buy and Use for SEO (and a few for free!)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 01:13 PM PDT

Posted by Sam Crocker

Having access to data and large data sets is something any SEO worth his salt craves. Sure, managing a massive dataset or database can be a bit of a hassle, but having good information is key and there are a handful of uses for other people's/sites' data sets that are readily available for purchase online. Big budget linkbuilding isn't the only way to spend your SEO budget these days!

Let's take a look at five examples of datasets that you can easily and readily purchase and how you might go about using them.

Geocities

The true motivation for this article was a chat with Tom... and the fact that you can now get Geocities (yes, seriously, the whole thing) in the form of a 1 tb torrent (thanks Hackernews). How much is it going to cost you? Just your email address.

Screenshot of GeoCities--izer version of SEOmoz

What would you do with Geocities, you ask? The sky's the limit with this one really! I'm not saying you want to use any of the great tickers and beautiful layout/seisure inducing colours for which Geocities is now famous.

However, you may very well want to use the huge volume of content that could quite easily be respun for your own purposes for a start? Or, use the epic designs for mapping out your new site- up to you!

Keyword Datasets

Why pay for keywords? Well, for starters, because sometimes you may find you have a client that has exhausted the entire set of data available through the adwords API (yes, this has seriously happened before). If the site is strong enough and you find you're still able to rank reasonably for long-tail terms post-MayDay there's no harm in creating some new content to target the long-tail. This isn't to suggest that you should buy keyphrases and not do the research yourself, but discussed, more data is almost always better than less.

Top view of a shocked woman speechless, without words
Out of Words? - Stock Image Provided by Shutterstock

And, most importantly- just because the data isn't in the API doesn't mean there isn't any search volume for it!

Some of the outfits out there selling keywords and keyphrases are:

SEM Rush (AdWords, Google Words, "hidden" keywords)
Hitwise also offers a range of products as well as one-off reports that will include a great deal of this information
WordStream can hook you up with access to a few trillion keyphrases as well - access to their API runs from $300-$2,500 per month depending upon how many units you're looking for (pricing details).
It's not yet up in it's final form but Rich Baxter is beta-testing a pretty darned good Keyword tool you may want to look at.
Finally, KeywordSpy is something I'd be interested in checking out.

This sort of thing won't come cheap, but it can be extremely valuable to the larger sites.

80 Legs Crawl Packages

Some of you may be familiar with using 80 legs as a tool to crawl and scrape your way through the interwebs. It's a tool that I've not spent nearly enough time with as I didn't find it quite as intuitive to use as Mozenda. However, the nice thing about 80 legs is that they have compensated for this a bit by offering packaged-up crawls.

The vast majority of the packages cost $350 per month (with the exception of the ebay motors crawl for $150/month) though the data you could pull off these is extremely valuable and saves you the trouble of doing any of the crawling yourself (or if your IP has been banned you naughty SEOs).

Again, these sets could be used for anything from price-comparison to market analysis and right on down to content creation and keyphrase research. If you're one of the fortunate few working in the space for which these are offered you should definitely have a look.

Twitter Census

So, the Twitter Census dataset is just an example of the variety of datasets you can buy from InfoChimps though the general concept of owning one year's worth of URLs, hashtags, and smiley usage seems like it could be used a number of ways. Either, you could create an infographic worthy of a link from the likes of Mashable, TechCrunch, etc.

Or, you could use the data to monitor keyphrase usage, common abbreviations, or any other sort of trend in social interaction (could be a great source of keyphrases as well as the search engines begin to take signals and include social directly in the SERPs. This set is currently placed at $300.

Linkscape

Rand was being a bit coy about this one and at time of press I wasn't able to get a serious price out of them but there's a price for everything right? Any serious bidders should probably get in touch with the SEOmoz team directly...

Along these lines, there are a number of other datasets that do not have a price set but I'm sure you could get your hands on with enough money and asking the right people. These would include: Backtype API data, Wordtracker, or Amazon's entire product catalogue. It all comes down to asking the right people, but ultimately anyone with a brain for business and a load of data would sell you their info if you know how to ask for it.

Bonus SWAG

Don't you just love it when you can get your hands on some awesome free stuff that you never knew you wanted in the first place? Well, thankfully, there are a few datasets that I came across that I thought were worth sharing and could give you some value for free.

Free Stuff! Stock Image from Shutterstock

Feel free to take a gander at these datasets and try to make use of the data! Can you say "infographic ammunition"?

The entire dataset from the New York Stock Exchange from 1970-current (Open, Close, High, Low, Volume).
Massive sets of US Census Data.
And for those of us based over in the UK - huge volumes of UK Government data right at your fingertips.

Other Huge Datasets to get stuck into:

Project Gutenberg for over 6,000 full books available online. These book lists at the very least could be of interest.
Any number of the Google Labs Datasets. My personal favourite of which is the "Broadband Penetration in Europe"
The Freebase data dump which happens to include 26gb of the world's information from the likes of Wikipedia, Freebase and a handful of other datasets.
Any number of epic datasets from Elastic Web's Public Datasets not to be missed! This includes Wikipedia, IMDB, Stack Overflow, etc.

Final Pro-Tip

One thing that you may have noticed is a byproduct of providing large datasets to people is that they tend to be solid gold for linkbait. We could focus an entire post around this but if you've got access to great data and you're not offering it out to your users/curious SEOs what are you thinking?! Publish the data, make it free to download, and require a link back for attribution for anyone who wants to use it- simples!

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Putting Aside Politics to Grow the Economy

Economy and Jobs Agenda
Monday, November 1, 2010

The Week In Economy and Jobs

In his weekly address, President Obama put the focus on working together to strengthen our economic recovery. The President called on Democrats and Republicans put aside politics and work together on a number of issues that have traditionally had bipartisan support, like tax breaks for middle-class families and investing in infrastructure.

Highlights

Latest Reports from Recovery Act Recipients on Recovery.gov
October 30, 2010
Ed DeSeve, Special Advisor to the President for Recovery Implementation, explains the new Recovery Act reporting.

Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy
October 30, 2010
Ahead of the elections, the President says no matter what happens both parties must work together to boost the economy, and expresses concern about statements to the contrary from Republican Leaders.

The President in Maryland: "We Have to Do More to Accelerate This Recovery"
October 29, 2010
The President discusses the latest GDP figures and his proposal to allow businesses and investors to deduct immediately the full cost of most investments that will help them expand and hire.

Advance Estimate of GDP for the Third Quarter of 2010
October 29, 2010
Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the latest economic growth figures.

DOT Awards $2.4 Billion to Continue Developing 21st Century High-speed Passenger Rail Corridors
October 28, 2010
The Obama Administration and the Department of Transportation are awarding $2.4 billion for planning and construction of intercity passenger rail service. With these 54 projects in 23 states, we're moving full-speed ahead toward a nationwide high-speed rail system.

More Than 5,000 SBA Jobs Act Loans Approved in First Month
October 28, 2010
SBA Administrator Karen Mills writes about the early success of the Small Business Jobs Act.

Standing Up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
October 28, 2010
Elizabeth Warren writes about the conversations she's having to make sure it gets done right.

Real Update on Real Property
October 27, 2010
The Federal Government is taking steps to achieve President Obama's goal of eliminating $8 billion in excess and surplus property costs by the end of Fiscal Year 2012.

The Facts on AIG
October 27, 2010
Deputy Communications Director Jen Psaki explains the recent back-and-forth over AIG.

President Obama in Rhode Island: "When You Vote Against Small Business Tax Relief..."
October 25, 2010
The President tours American Cord & Webbing in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, explaining how the small business will benefit from the Small Business Jobs Act that was blocked for months by Republicans in Congress.

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