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Proverbs 16:18

First pride, then the crash—
the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.

Thanks To Brent Minter at Worshiply

Google vs. Yahoo vs. Bing - Which Is The Best Option For You?

My default search engine is Google. I rarely use Yahoo, and I cannot remember the last time I used something other than these two. I choose Google because it is the best. Right? Isn't it? I mean, why should I even THINK about changing?

Well, someone with too much time on their hands has created a Search Engine Test. Go to BlindSearch, enter your search parameters and you will be presented with three columns of results. Look at the columns and determine which one you think best matches your query and then click the 'Vote For This Search Engine' button at the top of the page. This will reveal which search engine generated which column. I did two tests, and Google was not the best result for either of them. Maybe I should consider changing...

Thanks To BagOfNothing

Presidential Food Tester

I have heard about food tasters from "the olden days", but I did not know they still existed. According to this article by the Agence France-Presse the US Secret Service has one that travels with the President.

PARIS (AFP) — A US “taster” tested the food being dished up to President Barack Obama at a dinner in a French restaurant, a waiter said Sunday.

“They have someone who tastes the dishes,” said waiter Gabriel de Carvalho from the “La Fontaine de Mars” restaurant where Obama and his family turned up for dinner on Saturday night.

“It wasn’t very pleasant for the cooks at first, but the person was very nice and was relaxed, so it all went well,” he said on the Itele news channel.

Asked by AFP to comment, the restaurant confirmed the report.

The US Secret Service has always refused to confirm that US presidents travel with a food “taster”, in line with their policy of discretion on all security related issues.

But it is known the Service goes to great lengths to scrutinise the source and the preparation of food served to US presidents whenever they eat out of the White House to ensure it is not tampered with.

Thanks To BagOfNothing

A Balanced Map?

The US Census Bureau has been holding a census every decade since 1790. On the map below this data has been used to calculate the mean center of US population. According to the US Census Bureau, the mean center is

“the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the US would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census”.

The map below shows how the mean center has been slowly moving west and south for each census period. Click on the map to see more information.


Thanks To BagOfNothing

Best Buy 10% Off Printable Coupon

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Stethoscope

Thanks to my mother-in-law for forwarding this...

The Big Picture: Mercury and Messenger

More incredible pictures from The Big Picture. Click on either of the pictures below to be taken to the full 20 photo collection.

The planet Mercury is the smallest of the inner planets (4,880 km/3,032 mi in diameter), and the closest to the Sun (58 million km/36 million mi - or 3.2 light minutes). It was visited by the Mariner 10 spacecraft twice in the 1970s, and about 45% of the surface was mapped. On August 3rd, 2004, NASA launched a new mission to Mercury, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging probe (or MESSENGER). MESSENGER is now in the last stages of multiple gravity-assist flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury, en route to an insertion into orbit around Mercury in March of 2011. In just two flyby encounters, MESSENGER has already greatly increased our knowledge about Mercury's surface features. As you look at Mercury in the new images below, keep in mind that it has minimal atmosphere, gravity about 1/3 of Earth's, and surface temperatures ranging from -183 C (-297 F) in some polar craters to 427 C (801 F) at high noon (Mercury's solar day lasting 176 Earth days).

God Stalker?

Vince Antonucci had a great post this morning. In a nutshell, he says we should all be God Stalkers, but not like a psycopath. He proposes that we should all be like a "Jr. High girl who has gone way overboard with her first crush".

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