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joi, 29 august 2013

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Julia Vins: Super Strong Girl with the Sweet Face
Prison in El Salvador
Photoshop, You Are Doing It Totally Wrong
Cu Chi Tunnels

Julia Vins: Super Strong Girl with the Sweet Face

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 05:03 PM PDT

Russian body builder Julia Vins has the shape of a bodybuilder with the face of an angel. Do you think she is sexy?

Prison in El Salvador

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 04:49 PM PDT

This cages were designed for temporary 72-hour stays. But many of MS-13 and M18 gang members have to stay there for months and even years. Unhuman conditions but at least they have some extra time before being killed in the streets.

Photoshop, You Are Doing It Totally Wrong

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 04:31 PM PDT

Hilarious examples of bad Photoshop use.

Cu Chi Tunnels

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:16 PM PDT

The tunnels of Cu Chi are an immense network of connecting underground tunnels located in the Củ Chi district of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country. The Cu Chi tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the Viet Cong's base of operations for the Tet Offensive in 1968.

Keep marching

Hello, everyone --

President Obama was just two years old when Dr. King, along with hundreds of thousands of ordinary folks, inspired the country at the March on Washington. The President is a full generation removed from the heroes who marched across the bridge in Selma, who boycotted the buses in Montgomery, who integrated the lunch counters in Greensboro, but they inspired his commitment to public service.

And if his presidency is a symbol of the progress we've made as a nation, his speech yesterday -- a full half century after the March on Washington -- was an impassioned call to continue building on the work of the civil rights movement.

It was quite a moment. Take a minute to watch the video, then share it with your friends.

We too often forget that when the crowds converged on the National Mall 50 years ago, they were marching for jobs and freedom. The speakers talked about rolling back oppression, but they also demanded equal access to opportunity and a fair shot at economic success.

We have made great progress, but these goals remain just as relevant today as they were in 1963. Every American deserves to feel the pride of a hard-earned paycheck and the opportunity to achieve their dreams, regardless of who they are or where they are born.

As President Obama said, "The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency."

Watch now:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/heres-what-president-obama-said-50th-anniversary-march-washington

Thank you -- and here's to our continued progress over the next 50 years.

Valerie

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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 04:13 PM PDT

Posted by DannyDover

It is my honor and privilege today to introduce the brand-new version of The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet. This free and downloadable document covers all of the important SEO code and best practices that are needed by online marketers and developers.

Benefits and features

Save the Google searches for your new inbound visitors: This cheat sheet covers all of the details you would normally spend hours researching online. This leaves you with more time for the important things (like laughing at JennaMarbles or pretending you don't watch Vine compilations).
Available both online and offline: You can store the free downloadable PDF wherever you want. Save a hard drive, kill a tree! (It's printable.)
Updated for the inbound marketer: With new sections like responsive design and rel="author", you can uphold your flawless nerd reputation by publicly shaming those who make syntax errors in their code (and are foolish enough not to download this cheat sheet!).

Information covered

If it is important, we have you covered!

Page 1

Important HTML Elements
HTTP Status Codes
Canonicalization
URL Best Practices
Webmaster Tools

Page 2

Robot Control Syntax
Important User-agents
Sitemap Syntax

Page 3

Facebook Open Graph
Twitter Cards
Google+
Google+ Authorship
Google+ Publisher

Page 4

Targeting Multiple Languages
Mobile Web Development (Responsive Design)

Backstory:

It has been five years since I created the first version of this cheat sheet. Frustrated with how hard it was to find technical SEO information, I stayed up an entire night crafting the original resource. Without getting a second opinion, I blindly posted it on the company blog and went into the office.

At the time, I was still establishing my professional self and was an intern at Moz. The company was small, and the future of my unpaid internship was uncertain.

The blog post announcing the new cheat sheet resource went on to become the most popular blog post (as judged by thumbs) in the company's history (in fact, it still is!). The cheat sheet was heavily distributed on popular sites of the day and drove an incredible amount of much-needed links to the still-developing SEOmoz domain.

The Moz team was super excited about how many people the resource was helping, and I gained some desperately needed clout. When Rand tried to show his excitement over the piece, I learned an incredibly valuable lesson about intra-office communication.

Note to interns everywhere. Don't actually make vocal sound effects when your get the opportunity to "blow up" your boss's impromptu pound handshake.

Rand: Great job, Danny! Pound it!

*Reaches out fist in congratulatory manner*

Me: BOOOOM! POW! EXPLOSION!

*Confusion followed by reddened face*â€¦ *Saddened apology*

Rand: Erm... good job anyways!

Despite my social mishap :-), Rand and the team continued supporting me and this resource. Today's version is better than the original and even more valuable.

Looking back, the Moz team was absolutely fundamental in shaping me into the person I am today. My career at Moz was some of the most important years of my life thus far.

After leaving Moz in early 2011, I used the many habits and skills I learned from the talented team and continued to step up my career.

Thanks to Moz (and partly due to the original version of this cheat sheet), I am now living my ideal lifestyle by pursuing my bucket list full-time. You can read more about my story here.

Thank you!

A very special thanks to Cyrus and Dawn Shepard for making this new resource a reality. Your long hours and persistence have been inspiring. Thanks to the Moz design team for your artful assets and gleeful glamour (those are good things!).

Lastly, thanks to all of you for downloading and making this thing a success. You all rock!

Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!

A Speech You Should Watch

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A Speech You Should Watch

Yesterday, President Barack Obama delivered remarks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. He spoke about the progress we've made, and the work that's still ahead:

"We might not face the same dangers of 1963, but the fierce urgency of now remains. We may never duplicate the swelling crowds and dazzling procession of that day so long ago -- no one can match King’s brilliance -- but the same flame that lit the heart of all who are willing to take a first step for justice, I know that flame remains."

Watch: President Obama's speech from the Lincoln Memorial.

Seth's Blog : Making costumes

Making costumes

Look through any fashion magazine and you'll quickly come to understand that fashion is the act of making a costume. This clothing isn't primarily functional (if we define function in this case as warmth, or modesty, or having a pocket to keep keys handy). No, it's a costume.

And costumes are an artifice designed to remind us of something else.

So packaging is a costume.

The experience of entering a store is a costume.

Typography is a costume.

The design of your website is a costume.

There are very few ways to make something perfectly functional. There are a billion ways to invent a costume. Most marketing, then, is costume work, not the search for the most efficient function. Your form can follow your function, sure, but without a costume, it's naked.