Snow days are great, but generally you still have to wake up to find out if it is a snow day. [insingertech] decided to make a system to solve this problem. He made an alarm clock that would automatically de activate if school is cancelled. What a pleasant surprise it would be to just wake up and find that you had been allowed to sleep in. It is using an Arduino and a python script to control the state of the alarm based off of an online school closing announcement. You can download the software from the instructable.
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How to Sleep on an Airplane by: Roseanna Leaton
There’s nothing worse than sitting there, pinned into your seat, whilst the person next to you snoozes happily by your side, oblivious to your discomfort. Some people have all the luck! But is it really just luck? Is it to do with their temperament, or anxiety levels, or could it be that they have just learned how to get to sleep?You hear of some people who describe themselves as so laid back that they are “almost horizontal” but this does not necessarily mean that they are good sleepers when on an airplane. They will sleep beautifully when at home, and…
Facebook
The Rise of An Underground Facebook Profile Market
Over the past few days there has been increasing buzz about a market for Facebook public profiles. I’ve even received a few emails on the topic, one individual who was asking me about reasonable rates for purchasing public profiles. While I haven’t heard of any finalized transactions yet I’d expect this to become increasingly regular. Just last week Jason Kincaid posted about CNN acquiring the extremely popular CNNbrk Twitter account from another Twitter user who had been personally managing it.
On Facebook however, brands regularly contact Facebook to have fake versions of their public profiles shut down. At one point,…
Facebook
Facebook Starts Recommending Branded Public Profiles
Last night Facebook turned on a feature which will surely build some buzz: the recommendation of brands as friends. Previously Twitter launched a user recommendation system which generated a lot of controversy as recommended users instantly got hundreds of thousands of followers. Many of the popular Twitter users have not yet embraced their Facebook public profiles in the same way that they’ve embraced their Twitter accounts.
Perhaps this new public profile recommendation system will help change that. So how are these new recommendations determined? While we don’t know yet, we have pinged Facebook to find out how they are generating…
Health and Wellness
Lose Belly Fat
5 Simple Ways to Lose Belly FatExecutive Summary about Lose Belly Fat by Carl E OrrisAre you looking for a diet to lose belly fat? It’s called calorie shifting and this belly fat diet to lose weight actually stimulates weight loss through eating. Calorie counting is entirely unique and effective because it improves how your body metabolizes calories based on consumption, not on starvation. Calorie shifting is the first diet to ever have you lose weight from eating because it does something called metabolic confusion. With calorie shifting you can be assured this is the diet to lose belly fat…
Magic
A better one not the only one
Broken this fragile thing now but I can’t pick up the pieces. Made my mistakes let you down, bet I can’t hold on for too long. What if i ran my whole life in the ground and I can’t get up when you’re gone. She’s got a pretty smile it covers up all that she hides. She walks around in circles in my head waiting for a chance to take me on a haunting ride. Doesn’t mean it has to be in mine don’t believe what you said still can’t get it out of my mind…Soon there will be something…
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Library Visit Early in the morning…
Guess what i’m now in SendutII USM now, it’s 8.30am early in the morning, went here and pay a visit. In the name of student, i got my card taggged, walk-in and signed. Have my laptop online, though the line is weak, still i can surf the net. APEX? nah… Well, starts to moan…and getting tired (cant sleep well last night). So i managed to pop out my zippo lighter which i used to flick it, play with it, swing it. Have my hp on show, few shot and post of sick face… lolx. I’m not here just playing…
