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• Site Navigation Tools: Make it Visitor-Friendly!–SEOnoob
  tips for navigation, might help SEO
  (tags: se)
• Chinese surname shortage sparks rethink – Yahoo! News
  There could be 2 of me in future!!! The survey found 92 million people shared the surname Li, while 88 million were called Zhang. A further seven surnames — including Chen, Zhou and Lin — are held by at least 20 million Chinese.
  (tags: chinese_names)
• Check Mate Semen Detection Test Kit – How to Catch a Cheater
  After sexual intercourse, all women experience "Flowback." This "Flowback" causes a woman to have dried and or invisible traces of semen in her undergarments long after every sexual encounter. Is that a semen stain in her underwear? Find out in 5 minutes
  (tags: cheat)
• Seed: Don't Know Much Biology
  As science becomes more and more important in dealing with the world's problems, Americans are falling farther and farther behind in scientific literacy. Among citizens of industrialized nations, Americans rank near the bottom in their understanding of ma
  (tags: biology)
• Family's winner becomes a loser and loser a winner – smh.com.au
  What happens when one son was named Loser, the other Winner? One became a policeman and was eventually promoted to detective. The other fell into the life of a small-time crook, racking up at least 31 arrests before being jailed for two years.
  (tags: life)
• ASPO-USA – How Published Oil Reserves Figures Confuse The Oil Supply Situation
  While those figures are published in respected oil industry journals, the figures are essentially worthless. No outside agency audits oil reserves for individual countries. Since there is no outside auditing, governments of many countries exaggerate their
  (tags: oil)
• 131 – US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs « strange maps
  16. Louisiana – Indonesia (GDP #27 at $264 billion)
  23. Arizona – Thailand (GDP #34 at $197 billion)
  29. Kansas – Malaysia (GDP #40 at $132 billion)
  (tags: cool)
• Bumps and bruises are 'good for children’-Life & Style-Health-TimesOnline
  “Parents and children must not be frightened about venturing outside. When children spend time in the great outdoors, getting muddy, getting wet, getting stung by nettles, they learn important lessons – what hurts, what is slippery, what you can trip
  (tags: life)
• How to Change the World: Speaking as a Performing Art
  Tee it higher. Raising the overall pitch of your voice for a few seconds will create urgency. It shows your passion for the subject matter and also relaxes your exhausted larynx. Low pitched voices relax the room—high pitched voices increase the adrenal
  (tags: speaking)
• Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering – Joel on Software
  Typically, Apple chose the stylish route, putting art above practicality, because Steve Jobs has taste, while Microsoft chose the comfortable route, the measurably pragmatic way of doing things that completely lacks in panache. To put it another way, if A
  (tags: fonts)
• 17 foods to try before you die
  Real balsamic vinegar
  Forget the $5 supermarket kind. That's just wine vinegar coloured with caramel. Real balsamic is made only in Modena and Reggio Emilia, where it is aged at least three years in wooden barrels for complexity. Treat yourself to a bot
  (tags: food)
• How to Trade Like a Rockefeller – News & Analysis – Stockpickr – BP – COP
  Rockefeller was a one-man OPEC, with total pricing power over oil. In 1904, Standard Oil controlled 91% of oil production and 85% of oil product sales in the U.S. Think of OPEC owning not only most of the oil in the world but also every gas station, and y
  (tags: oil)
• To some, high gas prices have a silver lining | csmonitor.com
  Hank Leukart, a Seattle travel writer, pays about four times more for gasoline today than he did nine years ago. But "I love high gas prices," he wrote in a blog essay last year. In the long run, "high gas prices have so many good repercussions [in the fo
  (tags: oil)
• TechEBlog » (Pictures) High-Speed Camera Captures Milk Droplet Splashing on Coffee
  If you just can’t get enough of high-speed photography, we’ve got yet another stunning gallery for your viewing enjoyment, of a milk droplet splashing on coffee — courtesy of David P. Lots more pictures after the jump.
  (tags: cool)