måndag, december 28, 2009

NoTakeOut Plans Your Dinner Menu So You Don't Have To [Cooking]

Are you resolving to eat better and save money in 2010 by cutting down on carry-out? Put down the takeout menu and step away from the telephone....
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/LFzkLneNk6o/notakeout-plans-your-dinner-menu-so-you-dont-have-to
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Turn an Inexpensive IKEA Shelf into a Kitchen Bar [DIY]

Apartment kitchen design often leaves a lot to be desired. If you want to make your kitchen floor plan more efficient, this IKEA shelf turned kitchen...
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ZW6KTnNo_E0/turn-an-inexpensive-ikea-shelf-into-a-kitchen-bar
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måndag, december 21, 2009

The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century.

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Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West African nation of Cameroon… and what they’re doing to try and stop it from happening again.
THE DISCOVERY
On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if they’d all been killed by a
lightening
lightning strike – when lightening
lightning hits the ground it’s not unusual for animals nearby to be killed by the shock.
Soon the man came upon a group of huts. He decided to see if anyone there knew what had happened to the animals. But as he walked up to the huts he was stunned to see dead bodies strewn everywhere. He didn’t find a single person still alive—everyone in the huts was dead. The man threw down his bicycle and ran all the way back to Wum.
SOMETHING BIG

Nyos village, where nearly 2,000 people were killed (Image Credit: Jack Lockwood)
By the time the man got back to the village, the first survivors of whatever it was that had struck Nyos and other nearby villages were already stumbling into Wum. Many told tales of hearing an explosion or rumbling noise in the distance, then smelling strange smells and passing out for as long as 36 hours before waking up to discover that everyone around them was dead.
Wum is in a remote part of Cameroon, so it took two days for a medical team to arrive in the area after local officials called the governor to report the strange occurrence. The doctors found a catastrophe far greater than they could have imagined: Overnight, something had killed nearly 1,800 people. Plus more than 3,000 cattle and countless wild animals, birds and insects—in short every living creature for miles around.
The official death toll was recorded as 1,746 people, but that was only an estimate, because the survivors had already begun to bury victims in mass graves, and many terrified survivors had fled corpse-filled villages and were hiding in the forest. Whatever it was that killed so many people seemed to have disappeared without a trace just as quickly as it had come.
LOOKING FOR CLUES
What could have caused so many deaths in such a short span of time? When word of the disaster reached the outside world, scientists from France (Cameroon is a former French colony), the United States, and other countries arrived to help the country’s...
Article from Neatorama - http://www.neatorama.com
URL to article: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/
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lördag, december 19, 2009

Customize the Windows 7 Logon Screen


"Do you like to customize the Windows interface, and tired of the standard log on screen in Windows 7? Today we take a look at Windows 7 Logon..."
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7751/customize-the-windows-7-logon-screen/
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View Your Firefox & Twitter Histories On A Timeline With Voyage

A new experimental Firefox add-on. This one is called Voyage – you know like a journey. You can...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Makeuseof/~3/0l_Wwsj9JDY/

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Lessons Learned from a Hacked Google Account

"Amit Agarwal learned a lot..."

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/FHB4-1vOrkY/lessons-learned-from-a-hacked-google-account

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