Grocery Shopping Tips From The 1950s

Consumerist - Grocery Shopping Tips From The 1950s - Groceries: "Society may have come a long way since the 50s, but the grocery shopping tips remain the same. Inside, the wisdom that helped a generation of college-aged mothers conquer the scary supermarket."

WD-40 Can Do All That! Who Knew?

WD-40 Can Do All That! Who Knew? - Trudge164 - Open Salon: "According to WD-40 folklore, a guy who had just bought a new pickup got up one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around the sides of this beige truck (for some unknown reason). Needless to say, he was very upset and was trying to figure out what to do. His neighbor came out and told him to get some WD-40 and clean it off. It removed the unwanted paint beautifully and did not harm his paint job that was on the truck."

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the incredible 10ft 'photographs' drawn with a ballpoint pen

Simply birolliant - the incredible 10ft 'photographs' drawn with a ballpoint pen | Mail Online: "They may look like pin-sharp photographs - but these amazing pictures are actually drawings created with the humble ballpoint pen.

The stunning pictures, measuring up to 10ft high, were drawn by a rising star of the art world, Juan Francisco Casas.

Casas, 31, can use up to four 14p ballpoint pens for a canvas and his works are already a sell-out at exhibitions.

Formerly a traditional painter, Juan began the drawings three years ago based on photographs of nights out with his friends."

25 Businessmen Who Broke The Rules (And Some Laws)

25 Businessmen Who Broke The Rules (And Some Laws): "Fortunes are rarely won by playing it safe. On the contrary, the biggest fortunes have been won by those willing to step outside the box and change the way the game is played. Following are twenty-five business innovators of the past, present, and future whose stories are different in many respects, but all point to the same truth: Ingenuity, improvisation, and daring are more important than following the rules (even though you might find yourself on the wrong side of the law once in a while)."

Guy Tries to Be Sauve Sound Bite

Guy Tries to Be Sauve Sound Bite
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Giant 'soap bubble' found floating in space

Giant 'soap bubble' found floating in space - space - 23 July 2009 - New Scientist: "IT LOOKS like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula.

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory). Most are elliptical, double-lobed or cigar-shaped, evolving after stars eject gas from each pole (see a gallery of the nebulae)."

30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs

Amazing Wine Labels: 30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs: "Amazing Wine Labels - The design of a wine label can make or break the success of a new wine introduced to the market. Even beyond the quality of the wine itself, the label plays a primary role in the purchasing decisions of customers. It is on this fact that many graphic designers have focused their attention to making creative, compelling labels that connect a bottle of wine with its buyer. To celebrate the work of these designers, TheCoolist has selected 30 of the most impressive wine label designs in recent history. To read it right, we suggest you enjoy this list over a freshly popped glass of wine…"

Ultimate Killers

10 CULT FILMS YOU SHOULD KNOW

10 CULT FILMS YOU SHOULD KNOW: "Out of the 30,000 movies produced each year only 700 see theatrical distribution. If you do the math correctly, that means that there are exactly one gazillion movies that very few people see -- movies that have their own charms whether those charms be a skewed sense of humor or a dude jacking off onto a chicken. For every watered down family-friendly blowstravaganza like Wild Hogs, there's a truly brilliant gem that has only found itself a small but loyal group of fans. We've turned over a few rocks and come up with trailers for ten crazy little cult flicks."

Street Drummer

COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY? MEET THE GUY WHO DOES:

COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY? MEET THE GUY WHO DOES: "DANIEL SUELO LIVES IN A CAVE. UNLIKE THE average American—wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office—he isn't worried about the economic crisis. That's because he figured out that the best way to stay solvent is to never be solvent in the first place. Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit."

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Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-matching Study Finds

Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-matching Study Finds: "New research shows babies have a handle on the meaning of different dog barks – despite little or no previous exposure to dogs."

Infants just 6 months old can match the sounds of an angry snarl and a friendly yap to photos of dogs displaying threatening and welcoming body language.

The new findings come on the heels of a study from the same Brigham Young University lab showing that infants can detect mood swings in Beethoven’s music.

NYPD 2010: City to spend $1,000,000 for new... typewriters

NYPD 2010: City to spend $1,000,000 for new... typewriters: "The city is plunking down nearly $1 million on typewriters for its keystroke cops.

That's right -- typewriters.

Despite the adoption of high-tech equipment that can read license plates from the air and detect radiological events before they happen, manual and electric typewriters continue to be used throughout the NYPD -- and they won't be phased out anytime soon, officials told The Post."

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10 of the World’s Oldest Companies

10 of the World’s Oldest Companies:

100 Website Naming Disasters

100 Website Naming Disasters: "To celebrate the milestone of 100 URLs with unintentional double meanings, I have collected them all together in one A-Z list."

What Can the Diet of Gorillas Tell Us About a Healthy Diet for Humans?

What Can the Diet of Gorillas Tell Us About a Healthy Diet for Humans?: "One of the arguments proffered by vegetarians is that our primate ancestors were vegetarians and, to be healthy, we should eat the same kind of diet.

An article entitled 'The Western Lowland Gorilla Diet Has Implications For the Health of Humans and Other Hominids,' which appeared in a recent issue of Human and Clinical Nutrition, makes this argument. With reference to the authors' study of the vegetarian diet of gorillas, the research is sound, but to claim that humans would be better off with a vegetarian diet like that of the gorillas is spurious and equivocal."

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