sâmbătă, 2 aprilie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics

Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:09 AM PDT

Bubble-smith Sterling Johnson on Stinson Beach. Shot with a Canon 550D. This guy looks like a wizard.

Abandoned Streets of New Orleans

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:06 AM PDT

According to the official information, the population of New Orleans lost 29.1% in the past 10 years. Now things are going better but some parts and streets of New Orleans are still empty and abandoned. For more images.

30 Creative April Fools Office Pranks

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:58 PM PDT

April Fools Day is here! And what better way to spend your day in the office than pranking your coworkers? I stumbled on a few and then couldn't stop searching!

Here are 30 of my favorites:




























































Source: highersalary

Soldiers Fainting During Official Ceremonies

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:35 PM PDT

Military people, too. And the soldiers of honor and elite troops are especially vulnerable to stress and excitement. Add to this the need to stand for several hours in the heat, without moving, holding the hot metal weapons. Stand it can not everyone.
































Sources: telegraph

Clumsy Seller

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:26 PM PDT

This Mike cracks me up. Just read his 5 emails where he's messing with people as usual.

He's quite creative. I love the one with the dishwasher. Simply hilarious.


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Seth's Blog : Ten years of changing the world

Ten years of changing the world

Acumen celebrates its tenth anniversary this week.

Lesson 1: In fact, you can make a difference, you can start something from scratch, you can build something without authority or permission. Passionate people on a mission can make change happen.

Lesson 2: In fact, philanthropy works. Building systems and enhancing entrepreneurial outcomes generates results far bigger than the resources invested.

Lesson 3: You better be prepared to stick it out, to exert yourself, to last longer than you ever expected and to care so much it hurts.

Some highlights:

  • More than 3 million people have access to safe, affordable, and efficient energy
  • 7,000 people have jobs and hundreds of millions of insecticide treated bednets have been produced by A to Z
  • More than 330,000 farmers are changing their families' lives with drip irrigation systems
  • Hundreds of thousands have access to quality sanitation in Kenya – and Eco-Tact has become a model for other countries
  • More than 150,000 farmers have access to quality, affordable hybrid seeds in Western Kenya
    1298 is now answering more than 30.000 emergency calls every month in India (and has created more than 1250 jobs)
  • Kashf has reached more than 300,000 borrowers with micro-loans and emerged as one of Pakistan's important civil society institution
  • The first commercial mortgages for the poor have been provided in Pakistan and Saiban has developed a working, sustainable model for low-income housing development
  • More than 350,000 individuals have access to safe drinking water (and this doesn't include the copycat companies that have emerged as a result of WHI's innovation in the Indian marketplace)
  • Aravind provides quality eyecare through telemedicine to millions across India and has served as a global model
  • Sekem is the largest exporter of organic goods from the Middle East to Europe (working with 4,000 farmers on reclaimed desert land)

That a small band of talented, driven people could make this happen isn't surprising to me. What surprises me is that we still wonder whether change like this is possible.

 
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Weekly Address: Gas Prices and Energy Security

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Saturday, April 2, 2011
 

Weekly Address: Gas Prices and Energy Security

Speaking from a UPS customer center as part of the new public-private Green Fleet Partnership, the President discusses his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future to help free us from oil and boost the American economy.

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President Obama's Green Fleet Initiative A Bold Step Forward In U.S. Energy Use
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood outlines the positive steps that President Obama's Green Fleet Initiative will make toward reducing America's dependence on foreign oil.

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White House officials, Cabinet Secretaries, and the children of the late Cesar Chavez mark what would have been the civil rights leader's 84th birthday.

Open for Questions: Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar answers your questions on the Obama Administration's Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future.

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Seth's Blog : Dancing faster then ever, but why?

Dancing faster then ever, but why?

I just read a relentlessly snarky profile of the brilliant chef Charlie Trotter. Charlie is one of the pioneers of modern cooking, a gracious host and a perfectionist as well.

The Times is disappointed that he hasn't opened chains of restaurants, made a fool of himself on reality TV or decamped to a more expensive building in Chicago. All he's done, it seems, is mentor an entire generation of chefs, consistently create amazing meals and also donate once-in-a-lifetime, multi-course dinners for rising high school students in Chicago (150 times a year).

There will always be someone telling you that you're not hip enough, famous enough, edgy enough or whatever enough. That's their agenda. What's yours?

Shun the non-believers.

 
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