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Millionaire gives away fortune

Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable

Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy.

All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.

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How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off) | Work Smart | Fast Company

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)

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What is...

What is the first single digit number?

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Translation Party - "I don't dance, I don't do magic"

Translation Party

back into Japanese

私は魔法のダンスはありません

back into English

I do not dance magic

Equilibrium found!
You should move to Japan!

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For every person...

Source link: Infographic: Lack of Health Care

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New Heinz Packet

New Heinz Packet for Nugget Lovers Encourages Dippin' 'n' Drivin'

BY William BostwickSun Feb 7, 2010

A new ketchup packet from Heinz makes it easier to eat--and die--while driving.

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Facebook Nations

How to split up the US - Peter Warden

In a nutshell, Warden’s data analysis showed that Facebook users in the U.S. can be roughly segmented into seven regions, which he named facetiously:

• Stayathomia: This belt’s defining feature is how near most people are to their friends, implying they don’t move far.

Dixie: Like Stayathomia, Dixie towns tend to have links mostly to other nearby cities rather than spanning the country.

Greater Texas: Unlike Stayathomia, there’s a definite central city to this cluster, otherwise most towns just connect to their immediate neighbors.

Mormonia: The only region that’s completely surrounded by another cluster, Mormonia mostly consists of Utah towns that are highly connected to each other, with an offshoot in Eastern Idaho.

Nomadic West: The defining feature of this area is how likely even small towns are to be strongly connected to distant cities; it looks like the inhabitants have done a lot of moving around the county.

Socalistan: LA is definitely the center of gravity for this cluster. Almost everywhere in California and Nevada has links to both LA and SF, but LA is usually first.

Pacifica: Tightly connected to each other, it doesn’t look like Washingtonians are big travelers compared to the rest of the West, even though a lot of them claim to need a vacation.

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Interesting Twist: You do need a weather vane...

...to know which way the wind blows

2L4O: Too Liberal for Obama

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5th Pillar - Paying for "Pork" in India

5th Pillar

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Attention Bird Watchers...

FriendFeed

Dean Landsman

Attention bird watchers: tomorrow much attention will be paid, something to do with a superb owl. There's even a pre game show.

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OneStonedCrow <- Go and read!

OneStonedCrow

OneStonedCrow Pics
Succulents On The Namibian Coastline

After the good rains in 2006, the usually drab coastal area near Luderitz was transformed by the appearance of these succulents. Unfortunately I arrived about a week too late to catch them at their best. They look like they're made out of plastic hey?

photo album  GGGo

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Vintage Ministry of Food posters

Vintage Ministry of Food posters - Telegraph

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Proper English spoken here.

Stood in the Maasai Mara

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Zoushigaya micro-gardens « Tokyo Green Space

Zoushigaya micro-gardens « Tokyo Green Space

Old Tokyo neighborhoods like Zoushigaya are full of plant lovers who manage to create gardens where there is almost no space. This type of passion for gardening cannot be replicated by large scale developers. What is amazing is the ingenuity and sheer variety of plants grown by residents.

Above there are five or more plants growing vertically along a narrow path that would otherwise be a grim cinder block and metal siding wall between properties. The gardener seems to have used large blue laundry clips to espalier these hardy plants.

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Snake "toying" with its next meal(?)

all creatures [great and small]

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Leap of Faith

All Creatures [great and small]

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Apple's questionable product name.

It is readily evident that Apple didn't do diligence with study groups before it named its latest product.  I know too many insecure macho men who wouldn't touch an iPad if Apple gave them away for free.  I will be interested to see how other segments of the population respond.  

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Cultural Icons

Koko, the sign language specialist with the original "Yes we can" Mister Rogers.

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NUbrella...of course.

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