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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Parrot Sings Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
Modern Japanese Capsule Hotel
Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 15
The Ugliest and Scariest Fishes
Christmas Inspired Demotivational Posters
Lawnmower Racing
Top 10 Female Child Stars Who Became Hotties

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:23 AM PST

Dear Damn Cool Pics Visitors!

DamnCoolPics will be back after Christmas and New Year holidays. I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Faith makes all thingz possible,
Hope makes all thingz work,
Love makes all thingz beautiful,
May U hav all da three 4 this Christmas.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Let the coming year be prosperous joyful for all of us.

With my warm wishes,

DCP.

Parrot Sings Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:19 AM PST

Modern Japanese Capsule Hotel

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:02 AM PST

Welcome to the 9 Hours Hotel where you can spend the night sleeping in one of 125 small little capsules called hubs that are only large enough for a person to lie down in for $80. They are quite popular in Japan for commuters who have a need to stay in town overnight. This one is located in Kyoto.

The 9 h capsule hotel and all amenities were designed by Fumie Shibata of design studio s, which she founded in 1994. with her team, she defined the elements necessary for a 'minimal transit space' in big cities in japan. The product designer has been pursuing the 9h project as a creative director for 3 years.

Buckminster Fuller said:
"Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought."

While we spend almost a third of our life in bed, we spend most of it sleeping. In urban centers there are often issues of light, noise, ventilation and privacy. Perhaps sleeping pods are not such a bad idea.

Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 15

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST

The Ugliest and Scariest Fishes

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:18 AM PST

These are real marine reptiles that seem to come directly from hell.

Christmas Inspired Demotivational Posters

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:08 AM PST

Lawnmower Racing

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 11:58 PM PST

Lawnmower racing was invented in 1973 in The Cricketers Arms pub in Wisborough Green in West Sussex, England, UK, by a group of young men bemoaning the prohibitive costs of getting involved in any kind of motorsport.

Top 10 Female Child Stars Who Became Hotties

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 11:56 PM PST

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

Ranking Signals Hiding Beneath the Surface

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST

Posted by randfish

I've recently been thinking more about some ranking signals that in the past, I dismissed (perhaps foolishly). Some of these the engines have previously disavowed, while others don't get the attention or discussion they potentially deserve. My list includes:

Mentions of a domain / brand name - particularly in sources that the engine has classified as "news." I suspect we'd find a reasonable correlation and probably plenty of examples of domains that begin ranking once they earn these mentions.
Nofollow links from trusted sources - by running a bit of analysis across the domains on the web, engines could see, quite simply, who links to very good pages/domains and with what level of consistency. From there, it's an easy step to simply "count" those nofollowed links as followed or treat them similarly to the mentions above. This metric already gets a lot of attention, and our correlation data, at least, suggests that a high number of links/linking root domains with no-follows does correlate to better rankings.
LinkedIn + Twitter profile links - since these sites (and likely others like them) are used primarily by real humans, most of whom can't afford to have a spammy site seen by potential employers/networkers, these links are likely golden for search engine uses.
Traffic patterns via aggregated Google Analytics data - if the search quality team received a list of domains that sent/received traffic and the relative quantity levels, I suspect they could put this to use as a methodology to sort the spam from the real sites (spam tends not to send out traffic, nor receive it from a diverse range of good sites). It would also be an incredibly tough metric to game - how do you draw down lots of referral traffic from many unique high value sites (directly - most ads would get filtered) without actually being interesting and worth visiting?
Mobile visits, check-ins and interaction - Though still tough to determine/track compared to some other metrics, I'm thinking that a local business or relevant website only gets clicks and interactivity from mobile browsers/devices if it's highly relevant and useful. This could be another solid way to filter spam and get data for local/maps types of rankings (presuming the engines had access to the data at scale... can you say Android/Windows Mobile?) :-)
Links and references in Gmail - Again, it's unlikely Google's actually reading our email, but certainly the search quality team could get a list of the number and diversity of references to sites used in email (much the same way Gmail delivers "personalized" ads based on the content of emails)
Content that garners comments/UGC - if real people are actively participating on a site around unique content, I'd wager to guess that content is likely the type engines would want to rank. Things like comment RSS feeds, trackbacks and content uniqueness analysis could all be leveraged to help sort.
Rich media present on site and around the web - Spammers don't make a lot of unique graphics, images and photos. Likewise, they don't film original video, don't post podcasts, don't build Flash elements, upload Excel spreadsheets, graphically heavy PDFs, or the like. Real websites and businesses run by real people and businesses do. Since the engines already have the indexing and segmentation capacity, there's nothing to stop them from examining the data as a quality signal.

I'm not saying that Google/Bing are definitely using these, but I'd suspect that all of them have practical applications in improving search quality and relevancy. And, by running correlations and analysis of these datapoints ourselves (where possible), we may be able to learn more about what makes a site "look natural" and rank-worthy to the engines, particularly since so much of my email and our Q+A seems to be worried about false positives of late.

I'm curious - any other factors you think fit this pattern/system?

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