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How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites

Sue — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:31:33 +0000

From Smashingmagazine. How to permanently delete your account on popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google, eBay, Wiki, Flickr, Windows Live, Stumbleupon, WordPress.com, Amazon, YouTube, and PayPal.

More Backgrounds, Textures, Patterns, and Seamless Tiled Images

Sue — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:33:47 +0000

I don’t think a designer can ever have enough images in their repertoire. Enjoy these links.
Texture Palace: Premium free textures. Grunge, concrete, metal, ink, stone, textile, and others.
Bgrepeat: Free repeating backgrounds.
Squidfingers: Free repeating backgrounds.
Dinpattern: A great variety of repeating backgrounds. Be sure and read their usage policy.

Twittermania – Twouble with Twitters

Sue — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:48:28 +0000

Haiku for Twitter

Sue — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:43:28 +0000

I do see Twitter’s potential as an avenue of resourceful links, social networking, and snappy one-liners but I can’t help but wonder what to post at times given the 140 letter limitation. I can post resourceful links all day long but what if I just want to say something other than I’m sitting down to eat dinner or out walking the dog. Thinking about it brought back memories of when a group of people on a private list I subscribe to decided to write haikus pertaining to the subject matter being discussed. What poured out was some very spontaneous creative thinking. Although haikus can be oblique it would be an interesting twist to see tweets with subject matter in haiku format.

Turn on The Radio

Sue — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:49:38 +0000

A simple to use site called The Radio where you just plug in your favorite recording artist or music genre and listen to the tunes. Great sound clarity.

Abandoned Places & Urban Exploration

Sue — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:05:53 +0000

A site I visit regularly is Dark Roasted Blend. They update daily and truly have weird and wonderful things from around the world. The allure of the mysterious captivates me especially with their images of “Abandoned Places & Urban Exploration”. If you have time (and this site is a real time sink) go visit their “Most Dangerous Roads of the World” and within that they have images of the “Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail in The World” which is in China. Be sure and check out the outhouse.

A visual guide to the financial crisis

Sue — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:49:39 +0000

A great diagram to help explain the whole mess.

The farthest man-made object from earth

Sue — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:37:35 +0000

I’ve often wondered what the farthest man-made object was from earth. It’s amazing that this spacecraft is still plugging away after more than 30 years.

Voyager 1 is now the farthest man-made object from earth. It was launched in 1977 and it amazingly still receives power from its electrical generators that allow it to keep communicating with earth until at least 2025. From wikipedia: “The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592 lb) robotic space probe of the outer Solar System and beyond, launched September 5, 1977. It still receives commands from, and transmits information to Earth, currently pursuing its extended mission to locate and study the boundaries of the Solar System, including the Kuiper belt and beyond. Its original mission was to visit Jupiter and Saturn; and it was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.”

Fail Blog

Sue — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:05:28 +0000

Another amusing site – Fail Blog, Pictures and Videos of Owned and Fail Moments.

My favorite photography site

Sue — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:45:54 +0000

The Big Picture. News stories in photographs. These photographs are jaw-dropping amazing.