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Crow Roof Tubing
Internet Browser Cosplay
Collection of Friday the 13th Movie Posters for Today’s Honour
Redefining Action Hero: Bill Gates is Better Than Batman [Infographic]
World’s Fastest Finger Painting Artist
The RedBall Project
Female Bodyguard Training In China
The Best Cities in American Pro Sports [infographic]

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:04 PM PST

This video is proof that crows are probably more intelligent than we give them credit for and here they are learning gravity and tubing down the roof.

Internet Browser Cosplay

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 02:51 PM PST

This is a group of friends cosplaying as various internet browsers. As you can see, each one is pretty much the perfect personification of their particular browser.

Check out internet explorer. In our opinion we cannot decide if she is stoned, drunk or simply just cross eyed. What is your opinion?

Via: peterfromtexas

Collection of Friday the 13th Movie Posters for Today’s Honour

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 01:05 PM PST

Today is Friday the 13th, and what better way to celebrate then by checking out an entire series of Friday the 13th movie posters?

Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby and Kevin Bacon in one of his earliest roles. The film concerns a group of teenagers who re-open an abandoned camp site years after a young boy drowned in a nearby lake. One by one, the teens fall victim to a mysterious killer.

As seen at designbeep

Redefining Action Hero: Bill Gates is Better Than Batman [Infographic]

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:59 PM PST

I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates. Not just because he's been wildly successful, but because as far as I can understand, he's kept a steady head about him in spite of his success. As one of the wealthiest men in the world, he's also making a name for himself as one of the most philanthropic.

Obviously most of us don't have the kind of capital that Bill Gates has to work with, but I feel that everyone could learn from his philosophy towards philanthropy. I admire that his approach is both compassionate and practical. He sees charitable endeavors as something well worth investing in, because ultimately everyone benefits from an overall better quality of life around the world. He sums it up himself pretty well: "[The] hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone." I feel like that's a refreshingly balanced philosophy. Not only that, but as this Infographic shows, there are direct results that speak to just how powerful a well-informed and carefully invested philanthropist can be.

Read on to find out more about the powerful things happening at the hands of Bill Gates, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the legacy of philanthropy started by some of America's most successful and most innovative figures. It's nice to remember that success doesn't always create greed — it can enable a powerful force of giving and problem-solving.

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Source: frugaldad

World’s Fastest Finger Painting Artist

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:42 PM PST

Meet Fabian Gaete Maureira, probably the most talented finger painter the world has ever seen. He's been called "Bob Ross on meth." The Chilean artist paints the detailed landscape portraits of trees, mountains and waterfalls with just the tips of his fingers in less than three minutes in this amazing YouTube video first found on reddit.

Flickr acount.

The RedBall Project

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:14 PM PST

RedBall Project by Chicago-born artist Kurt Perschke is a global art project that exists as a series of temporary installations in a city over a few weeks in which a 15-foot inflatable red sphere is embedded within a city's urban environment and provides a point of interaction with people on the street.

The work has taken place in cities such as Syndey, Barcelona, Chicago, Korea, Abu Dhabi and England among others.

"Through the RedBall Project I utilize my opportunity as an artist to be a catalyst for new encounters within the everyday. Through the magnetic, playful, and charismatic nature of the RedBall the work is able to access the imagination embedded in all of us. On the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who experience it. It opens a doorway to imagine what if?"

Flickr Group Pool

Female Bodyguard Training In China

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 09:09 PM PST

Trainees gather at the beach as they wait for the beginning of a training session for female bodyguards organised by Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co. in Sanya, Hainan province January 8, 2012. According to the company, a total of 20 women, mostly college graduates, participated in the training session on Sunday, which was the first open group training for female bodyguards in China.

All trainees will have to undergo 8-10 months of training to develop sufficient skills to serve their clients. The company will offer the best trainee a chance to attend further study at the International Security Academy in Israel. Women are especially in demand because they are less visible than men and can take on other positions like a secretary or nanny. Female bodyguards are also paid better, up to about $130 a day. The average annual wage in China is just $308.

Image Source: (Reuters / CHINA DAILY)

The Best Cities in American Pro Sports [infographic]

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:52 PM PST

Who are the best sports fans in America? It's a good question. Wherever you live, you probably think that your city is the most passionate, has the loudest crowds, and deserve the title of America's greatest sports fans. We decided to look into it and came up with some facts and figures that reveal who really are the craziest, most sports-demented lunatic fans in North America!

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Source: ticketliquidator

Seth's Blog : The TED imperatives

The TED imperatives

Be interested.
Be generous.
Be interesting.
Connect.

In that order. If all you can do is repeat cocktail party banalities about yourself, don't come. If all you're hoping for is to get more than you give, the annual event is not worth your time. If you're not confident enough to share what you're afraid of and what's not working, you're cheating yourself (and us).

These aren't just principles for TED, of course. They're valid guidelines for any time you choose to stop hiding and step out into the world. It would be fabulous if people who were willing to commit to these four simple ideas had a special hat or a pin they could wear. Then we wouldn't have to waste our time while looking for those who care about their work and those around them.

[TED is a conference that started small, got big and then spawned more than a thousand local versions. Mostly, it's a culture of connecting interesting ideas and the people who have the guts to share them. Sometimes people at TED even follow these imperatives].

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Making It Easier to Do Business in America

Your Daily Snapshot for
Friday, January 13, 2012

Making It Easier to Do Business in America

Right now, every entrepreneur who needs to do business with the government has to navigate a maze of overlapping agencies and deal with competing bureaucracy.

Today President Obama announced a new plan to change all of that: entrepreneurs will be able to go to just one department, visit one website, and call one phone number -- making it easier to do business in America.

Learn more about how the President is making it easier for American businesses.

West Wing Week: "Insourcing: Bringing Jobs Back to America"

This week, the President visited the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, welcomed this year's NBA Champs -- the Dallas Mavericks -- addressed the EPA, announced a new Chief of Staff, and introduced the White House's Insourcing Initiative.

Watch the video and get a behind-the-scenes look at the President's week.