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Huge Landslide in Brazil
Street Art by JR
Romantic Proposal in the Rain
Love Locks
Top 15 Highest Paid Athletes in The World
First Known Photo of a Human
The Biology of a Hangover

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 08:40 AM PDT

JR is a French artist who exhibits his work in what he describes as "the biggest art gallery in the world", the urban landscape.

The highly private artist mounts enormous black-and-white photos, often without official permission, on to buildings in some of the world's biggest cities.

JR wins Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) prize ($100,000) for his exhibition "Women Are Heroes" which has been shown on slum housing in Paris, bridges in Africa and the walls of favelas in Brazil.

Here, a favela in Rio de Janeiro is transformed by dozens of images.

His "Face to Face" project in 2007 saw dozens of images of Israelis and Palestinians plastered onto both sides of the Israeli West Bank barrier, and at various other nearby locations.

The project has been described as "the largest unauthorised art exhibition in the world".

In this Kenyan slum, his photographs were printed on waterproof vinyl and doubled up as makeshift roofs.

The elderly residents of Shanghai were the subject of JR's latest project, "The Wrinkles of the City".

The artist links the lines and wrinkles on the residents' faces with the transformation of their city.

Romantic Proposal in the Rain

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 08:34 AM PDT

These are some great photos of a couple in love. This is a real love story and very romantic. It is all very cute and tells a real story of love.

Love Locks

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 02:51 AM PDT

For years now it has become popular for loving couples to write messages on a padlock and attach them to certain landmarks. This is done all over the world. It shows a couple's undying love for one another and supposedly brings good luck.

Pecs, Hungary

Moscow, Russia

Seoul, South Korea

Cologne, Germany

Korakuen, Japan

Wroclaw, Poland

Montevideo, Uruguay

Guam, USA

Rome, Italy

Huangshan, China

Odessa, Ukraine

Prague, Czech Republic

Source: lock-master

Top 15 Highest Paid Athletes in The World

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 02:33 AM PDT

Here are 15 athletes that are the highest paid in sports currently.

15. Dwyane Wade (NBA) $27,779,912

14. Peyton Manning (NFL) $30,800,000 (for now)

13. Derek Jeter (MLB) $31,000,000

12. Kobe Bryant (NBA) $33,034,375

11. Shaquille O'Neal (NBA) $36,000,000

10. Alex Rodriguez (MLB) $37,000,000

9. Manny Pacquiao (Boxing) $38,000,000

8. Christiano Ronaldo (Soccer) $40,000,000

7. David Beckham (Soccer) $40,500,000

6. Lionel Messi (Soccer) $44,000,000

5. LeBron James (NBA) $45,779,912

4. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Boxing) $60,250,000

3. Phil Mickelson (Golf) $61,660,757

2. Roger Federer (Tennis) $61,700,000

1. Tiger Woods (Golf) $90,508,163

First Known Photo of a Human

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 02:30 AM PDT

It is the first known photo of a human. This is a Daguerreotype taken by the inventor of the process, Louis Daguerre, in 1838. It is a view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. To achieve this image (one of his earliest attempts), he exposed a chemically treated metal plate for ten minutes. Others were walking or riding in carriages down that busy street that day, but because they moved, they didn't show up. Only this guy stood still long enough. Do you see him?
More after the jump.

This man stood still long enough to have his boots shined.

The Biology of a Hangover

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 02:06 AM PDT

A hangover describes the sum of unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages. The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, lethargy, dysphoria, diarrhea and thirst, typically after the intoxicating effects of the alcohol begin to wear off. While a hangover can be experienced at any time, generally speaking a hangover is experienced the morning after a night of heavy drinking. In addition to the physical symptoms, a hangover may also induce psychological symptoms including heightened feelings of depression and anxiety.

Hypoglycemia, dehydration, acetaldehyde intoxication, glutamine rebound, and vitamin B12 deficiency are all theorized causes of hangover symptoms. Hangover symptoms may persist for several days after alcohol was last consumed. Approximately 25-30% of drinkers may be resistant to hangover symptoms. Some aspects of a hangover are viewed as symptoms of acute ethanol withdrawal, similar to the longer-duration effects of withdrawal from alcoholism, as determined by studying the increases in brain reward thresholds in rats (the amount of current required to receive to electrodes implanted in the lateral hypothalamus) following ethanol injection. Dehydration is caused by alcohol's ability to inhibit the release of anti-diuretic hormone. (Source: Wikipedia)

More Infographics.

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Source: medicalinsurance

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

2010 Industry Survey Results, Infographic & Surprising Trends

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PDT

Posted by randfish

Earlier this year we asked the community to take our SEO Industry Survey. We had originally hoped to get at least 3,000 responses and were completely blown away when over 10,000 people ended up taking the survey! Of course, it never hurts to have an iPad as the grand prize, but I'm still very excited about the extent of this report. As a comparison, another excellent survey in our industry earlier this year from eConsultancy and SEMPO generated ~1,500 responses (results are detailed in this SELand article).

Our survey's goal was to gather information about SEO in 2010 and share it publicly. We asked questions around:

Who are the people in the SEO community?
How do they learn about SEO and sharpen their skills?
How are companies embracing search marketing?
Which tools and tactics do people in the industry use to support their SEO and social media efforts?

After some detailed number crunching by our good friend Will Critchlow from Distilled, we're happy to present to you the results from the data.

Get the 2010 Industry Results Here

Some of the cool things you'll see include:

What percent of SEOs say they buy links, report spam and how many overlap?
Salary ranges across countries, experience levels and job descriptions
Demographics of SEO - we might need to work on our male/female ratio
and lots more - just go read it!

We've also created a spiffy infographic to help visualize the survey results:

For those who'd like to delve into the data more deeply, and extract new views on the information from the 10K+ respones, we've made the full data dump available in CSV form: download here. We'd love to see any interesting/unique analyses on this information, and we hope it's useful to those organizations and companies seeking to learn more about the SEO market.

Winners!

We can't forget to mention the people who won gifts for participating in the survey. The winners were notified back in June and they've all received their prizes. Here are the winners:

Grand Prize: 32GB Wi-Fi iPad:
Sam Ilowitz

First Prize: 120min Flip Mino HD Camera with custom SEOmoz artwork:
Jared Reed
Jay Estis
J. Smeekens

Second Prize: $35 gift certificates to the SEOmoz Zazzle Store:
Gareth Allen
Jody Lonergan
Anton Korzhuk
Jason Tan
Robert Palmer
Sebastien Mégraud
Lindsay Copeland
Joakim Eriksson
Nicholas Foo
Brian Hutchison

It's been a tremendous pleasure and honor to be part of such a powerful and growing industry, and this survey highlights the depth, breadth and uniqueness of those who do SEO professionally. Thanks so much for participating - we hope to make this a biennial (or possibly even annual) tradition.

p.s. We've also got the questions in individual results format on this detail page. Feel free to use any of the images and data in your reports, presentations, analyses, slide decks, etc. but if you use them online, we'd appreciate a link (nofollow is fine, but remember it leaks PageRank) ;-)

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News Conference with President Obama Today at 1 p.m.

Your Daily Snapshot for
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010

News Conference with President Obama

Today at 1 p.m. EDT, President Obama will hold a news conference in the East Room. Watch live at WhiteHouse.gov/live.

Photo of the Day

President Barack Obama makes an election night phone call to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) from his Treaty Room office in the White House residence a couple of minutes after midnight, Nov. 3, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Today's Schedule

All times are Eastern Daylight Time

9:30 AM: The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

1:00 PM: The President holds a news conference

2:55 PM: The President meets with senior advisors

Indicates Events that will be livestreamed on WhiteHouse.gov/live.

Seth's Blog : Helping the rejection committee

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Helping the rejection committee

Liz quotes a friend who sold expensive business to business products in Texas, "It's not a no until they call security!" This salesperson has no intention whatsoever of helping the folks who reject her do the rejecting.

I'm not sure you have to go that far, but I know that many marketers work hard on behalf of the rejection committee. We sabotage our college applications or email pitches or websites, predicting in advance that we're not going to make it, not good enough, not worthy. So we set out to save them the trouble of having to think hard about the no.

If someone wants to say no, let them. But no need to help them get to no before they get the chance. Let them do their job.