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Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


The 50 Most American Photo Ever Taken

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 03:07 PM PDT

Epic America.









































































































Israeli Army Girls Gone Wild

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT

These pictures of girls with guns was posted on Facebook and made news sites around the world. The girls are part of the Israeli Defense Force and have been "disciplined" for this behaviour.









More Israeli military girls






















































































  













































Chinese Photoshop Requsts and the Results

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:02 PM PDT


The lesson here is you should never ask Weibo users to make you look cooler in a photograph.
Request: Please add a handsome man to this photo! Thanks!




Request: Please make me more intimidating!






Request: I'm looking for a girlfriend. Please Photoshop masters, make me more handsome!





Request: Please make the girls around me a bit more fun!




Request: Can you Photoshop it so that we are together?




Request: Here are a few pictures (we picked one) of myself, can someone make them cool?




Request: Please remove this man next to me, otherwise I can't send this photo to my boyfriend!




Request: Can you please make me more beautiful?




Request: Put me in a cooler location!




Request: We just graduated, please make this more interesting!




Request: Please make the guy jumping in the center more awesome! "More ridiculous" The funnier the better.






Request: Please make me cooler. The cooler the better!




Please give me some protection! Please, nothing terrible!




Here are some photos that are just being messed with!

















IT Jobs with the Highest Pay & Fastest Growth [infographic]

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 10:41 AM PDT

Looking for a field with a future so bright you'll need shades? Then check out this infographic from Staff.com to see where the openings and the money are waiting for you.

Click on Image to Enlarge.
Staff.com - IT Jobs with the Highest Pay and Fastest Growth Infographic
Via Staff.com

Funny Cats Compilation May 2013

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 08:22 PM PDT



Taking on the Patent Trolls

Here's What's Happening Here at the White House
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Taking on the Patent Trolls

Our patent system is meant to encourage innovation and invention. But in recent years, companies called "patent trolls" have used abusive patent litigation designed to threaten innovators in order to extract settlements based on questionable claims.

It costs the economy billions of dollars and undermines American innovation, and today President Obama issued five executive actions and seven legislative recommendations designed to protect innovators from unnecessary litigation and improve the quality patents in our system.

Learn how the Administration is taking on patent trolls to protect American innovation.

Learn how the Administration is taking on patent trolls to protect American innovation.

 
 
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The National Conference on Mental Health

Nationally, an estimated 45 million Americans suffer from illnesses like depression, schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress syndrome. Yesterday, the White House hosted a day-long conference to kick off a national conversation about mental health in the United States.

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Hanging Out and Talking Asteroids at the White House

As part of the White House’s ongoing series of “We The Geeks” Google+ Hangouts (focused on highlighting science, technology, and innovation topics), we gathered some leaders in space exploration together for a pregame show to the near-miss of asteroid 1998 QE2 on Friday.

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Being Biden Vol. 8: Remembering Senator Lautenberg

In the latest installment of Being Biden, Vice President Biden remembers his friend, the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.

READ MORE

 
 
  Today's Schedule

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)

9:30 AM: The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing WATCH LIVE

10:30 AM: The President delivers a statement

11:10 AM: The President and Chilean President Sebastián Piñerahold a bilateral meeting; The Vice President also attends

12:30 PM: The President and the Vice President meet for lunch

1:00 PM: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney WATCH LIVE

2:20 PM: The President departs the White House en route Bethesda, Maryland

2:30 PM: The President arrives Bethesda, Maryland

2:50 PM: The President visits the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

4:35 PM: The President departs Bethesda, Maryland en route the White House

4:45 PM: The President arrives at the White House

7:00 PM: Vice President Biden Speaks at the American-Turkish Council’s Conference WATCH LIVE

 

 

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#MozCon Speaker Interview: Karen McGrane

#MozCon Speaker Interview: Karen McGrane


#MozCon Speaker Interview: Karen McGrane

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 07:10 PM PDT

Posted by Erica McGillivray

Karen McGrane I'm really excited that we're bringing Karen McGrane, CEO at Bond Art + Science, to this year's MozCon. A veteran of the content world, she's a champion of making great content accessible to your audience. Karen proclaims that mobile is the best thing that's ever happened for content. In fact, she wrote a book on it. She'll be talking "The Mobile Content Mandate" at MozCon, and you won't want to miss it.

When Karen's not rooting for seamless content across all devices, you might find her on Twitter @karenmcgrane and maybe chatting about artichokes. Which as I interviewed her, I wanted to know more about both.

What's inspired you lately?

I always get a huge burst of energy at this time of year. My birthday is April, and springtime always feels like a fresh start. I like to work outside on my terrace when the weather starts getting warm. I’m sitting outside right now! It feels like a good way to get things done and pretend that I’m on vacation at the same time.

Since you'll be talking about mobile content strategy at MozCon this year, what mobile devices are your favorite to use?

I’m a pretty devoted iOS userâ€"I’m on my third iPhone and second iPad (the iPhone 5 and iPad mini.) I think cross-platform use and testing is a huge challenge on mobile. My developer friends spend a lot of time (and often, money) putting together device labs for testing. We’ve been through this before on the desktop web, and hopefully we’ll move quickly to ensure cross-platform and cross-browser consistency on the mobile web tooâ€"that’s what we need to ensure the web grows and evolves.

What sites are your favorite to access on mobile devices?

Sadly, many sites still aren’t optimized for the mobile web. The New York Times mobile website is pretty weak -- they’ve invested more in apps -- so I still visit their desktop site from my mobile browser. (I led the redesign of that site in 2005, so I’m intimately familiar with it!)

In some cases, the mobile website is actually better than the desktop site. Travel is one category where they’ve invested in optimizing for local users, so in many cases the mobile site is faster and simpler. Booking.com provides a great mobile experience, and it shows. Their revenue from mobile bookings tripled from $1 billion to $3 billion last year. 

Booking.com

Banking is another category where they’ve invested a lot in transactional applications. I’m consistently impressed by the mobile banking app from my bank, Chase. But banks have a long ways to go in delivering content to mobile usersâ€"most offer only a paltry subset of product and customer service content compared to the desktop.

You're an extremely proficient writer and speaker. Do you have a certain writing routine that you apply to your daily schedule? A time, a place, a device to start with, a process, music?

If I’m writing an article or a new talk, I must ensure that I have a clear schedule. I need an entire day to focus on the writing, and I can’t concentrate if I’m trying to fit it in around client conference calls and meetings. Given any opportunity to distract myself, I will do it! So I also try to make sure my apartment is tidy, and I’m at inbox zero, otherwise I’ll find myself vacuuming under the bed instead of writing.

I like to write on the sofa or outside on my terraceâ€"I find it easier to focus when I’m away from my desk. I sit at my desk and use two monitors when I’m making slides for a talk, but when I’m writing I prefer to just use my laptop.

On your website, your tagline says "On a good day, I make the web more awesome." Who are the people out there making the web more awesome that you admire?

I’m so grateful to so many people. I’ve learned a lot and been genuinely blessed to work with some amazing people over the years.

The team at Arc90 does some really impressive work, and they are smart people. They put out the read-it-later app Readability, as well as a bunch of projects with banks and publishers.

I teach in the MFA program in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. I teach design management, which is essentially “business skills for user experience designers.” Liz Danzico is the chair of the program, and she’s assembled a fantastic lineup of instructors and every year it’s a great group of students. I learn a lot being a part of it.

And, of course, I’m indebted to Jeffrey Zeldman and the various teams at A List Apart, An Event Apart, and A Book Apart. I write a column for ALA; my book was published by ABA; and I’ve spoken at AEA many times. Zeldman has a real knack for connecting amazing people, and my work is so much better because of the high standards they set.

In addition to being on the cutting-edge of mobile, you're also a computer history geek. Who's your favorite unknown scientist or major contributor in computers that made a huge impact on what we do today?

Well, she’s not exactly unknown, but Grace Murray Hopper is an amazing woman and a fantastic role model for our industry. She spent 40 years in the Navy as a computer scientist, retiring as a rear admiral. There are not many programmers who have a U.S. Navy Destroyer named after them, but the U.S.S. Hopper is named for her. I describe her as "the person who taught computers to speak our language." She came up with the first "compiler," which essentially allowed people to type commands in English, rather than in binary. It took her years to convince people that computers could do more than just arithmetic.

USS Hopper

Okay, now what I've been dying to know, what's your favorite way to cook an artichoke?

I eat a lot of artichokes. My everyday preparation is simply to steam the whole artichoke and serve it with a vinaigrette made of lime juice and good olive oil. For a fancier preparation, I like to braise the artichokes, searing them first and then simmering them in chicken stock and white wine. The only trick to braising is you need to pull off most of the tough outer leavesâ€"I usually yank off what I think is right, then take off another layer. If you can get baby artichokes, they are especially nice when braised and served with the braising sauce over pasta. (I like to serve them with scallops.) Yum.

Yum indeed. Thank you so much, Karen, for sharing a little bit of the future, a little bit of history, and a little bit about artichokes with us. You can follow Karen on Twitter @karenmcgrane or better yet, join us for her MozCon talk.


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11 of the Best SEO & PPC Posts from May

11 of the Best SEO & PPC Posts from May

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11 of the Best SEO & PPC Posts from May

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:31 AM PDT

If you are anywhere near as busy as we were in the SEOptimise office during May, it can be difficult to keep up with all the great blog posts that were published. I thought I’d ask the office to see the ones which they thought were worth a read. So, in no particular order, here is our top 6 posts from around the web…

It has also been a busy month on our blog, with May achieving the highest traffic figures of the year so far. So in case you missed any of them, here are our 5 most popular posts of the month…

Did we miss any great posts? We’d love to hear your suggestions, so please add them to the comments below.

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