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31 December 2007

Mr. T Style New Year Resolution

It is that time of the year, for quite a few of us, to start taking action on the New Year Resolutions (NYS) that we've made. Here is how Mr. T helped us create our NYS - but first lets answer the question; Well, why Mr. T? Some say that he invented the I.Q. testing system so he could more accurately pity fools. Some say he beat Chuck Norris in a game of tic-tac-toe and Chuck invented racism. All we know is Mr.T puts the "T" in T.V., was a popular celeb back in the day and a hit with the kids. Find a celebrity now who tries to be a positive role model, let alone a video for kids where the main focus is self esteem and hard work.


1. Quit yo Jibber-jabber! You ain't hurt, yo pathetic!, Argh! If I ever catch you out like a crazy fool again, you're gonna meet my friend pain!



2. Know your roots: See this tree here? It's tall, big, beautiful and it is strong! But it wouldn't be here if it didn't have any roots.. and you wouldn't be here either, if you didn't have any roots. You see roots nourish us.. and help us to become what we hope to be!



3. Acknowledge that you a fool: If you are "sitting around crying 'what's wrong with me Dr. Phil what's wrong with me' then YOU A FOOL that's what's wrong with you!



4. Be somebody: Or be somebody's fool. You gotta be a leader, a high achiever! So if you want to be cool, just like me - You better try real hard to be some-bo-dy!



5. Recouping: One out of one Dr. T's recommend it!



6. Treat your mother right: Mother! There is no other! Like mother! So treat her right!

M is for the moan and the miserable groan
From the pain that she felt when I was bo'n!

O is for the oven with its burnin' heat,
Where she stood makin' sure I had somethin' to eat!

T is for the time that she stayed up nights,
And took my temperature when I wasn't feeling right!

H is for the hard-earned money she spent,
To keep clothes on my back and tried to pay da rent!

E is every wrinkle I put on her face,
And every worry that I caused when I stayed out late!

The last letter, R, is that she taught me respect,
And for the room up in heaven that I know she'll get!




7. Treat your friends right: Where I come from, a true friend is someone that when you get bit by a snake in the big toe [!!], they'll be there to suck the poison out! I mean, that's a real, true friend! Sometimes a true friend is hard to find.



8. Learn computers: Maybe Mr.T hacked the game and created a mohawk class! Maybe Mr. T is pretty handy with computers!



9. Be the "I" in I.T.: Hey, sucka! Be there! Don't make me mad, Arrr!



10. Stop saying "I Pity the Fool": It used to be fun in the 80's, not anymore.



Happy 2008! Do you have a New Year’s resolution?

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30 December 2007

POLL: Vote For the Best Ruff PC Review (and Video) - Final Round!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final round of The Thinking Blog 1st anniversary giveaway. As you might already know, this year we are giving away a brand new, rugged, water resistant RuffBook Tech sponsored by Ruff PC. It is all down to Top 5 reviews and these finalists will be voted down to one winner in another 5 days. The winner will be announced on Friday, January 4th 2008 on a separate post, and Ruff PC will get in touch with you to send out your New Year's gift. Please, everyone (especially the RSS readers), read all the 5 reviews and make sure you cast your vote.

Without further due, here is the list of finalists from the previous rounds in reverse order. Feel free to use the direct link of the poll or use the code below to add the poll on your blog.


LIST OF FINALISTS (votes from previous rounds)

01. Zero Hour Sleep (54)

02. Widget's Lab (61)

03. Search for Blogging (201)

04. John Chow Dot Com (576)

05. TechTreak (854)

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VOTE FOR THE BEST:



LIST OF VIDEO ENTRIES

01. Nakichiam - Demo



02. TechTreak - Demo 2









03. TechTreak - Demo 1




VOTE FOR THE BEST VIDEO: (Direct link for video poll)


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Good Luck and Happy New Year!

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29 December 2007

Airplane Near Misses Building, Lands On Water

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28 December 2007

Make Your Own Fizzy Drinks At Home

Now here is something for those who are watching out for the contents of soda pops. If you are not a big fan of the amount acid, sugar, or artificial sweeteners in your soft drink, why not make your own? This is something I started doing for a few months now, it works great and tastes great too. What you need to do is take some carbonated water and add it to 100% pure juice of your choice. Simple!

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27 December 2007

Turn Your Desktop Into a Lava Lamp

Bring back 'far out' memories of the 70's with this mesmerising animated wallpaper. Drempels is a nifty piece of software that makes your computer's desktop behave like a screensaver, providing a hypnotic and psychedelic display of constant motion (best viewed on LSD). It allows you to add your own images and also runs in a screensaver mode. It's also open-source now, so you can get under the hood and tinker with the code if you so desire.

This is the first animated desktop program that we've come across that not only works, but it's stable and doesn't affect the system performance at all (when you put every setting on low and limit FPS to 10). Give it a try - it's really cool!

DIRECT DOWNLOAD (529 kb) - From the Drempels website:
"Drempels makes colorful, swirling, hallucinogenic patterns that resemble a hurricane or tornado. It normally runs in your Windows background or 'desktop', replacing your old still-image wallpaper with gently-animating visuals... and meanwhile, you can use your computer just like you normally would. It uses very little CPU overhead - so little that it even runs smoothly on a 233 MHz system!"

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26 December 2007

Drunken Santa Sightings!

Santa's a fat, creepy, snobby, vaguely racist hack worried more about his own gift-giving status than the children of the world. I met Santa at a party in New York once. And you know what? He was a totally self-absorbed prick, actually. He was all Santa-this, Santa-that, constantly worried about promoting the Santa "brand." As if we needed another reason to hate Santa Claus, he still hasn't owned up to his alcohol problem.

We used to think the red nose was cute; now we see it as a sign of a deeper problem.

Here are some pictures:











..some videos:






..and the flash game!


Text and links via BuzzFeed. Image and videos via Google.

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25 December 2007

POLL: Vote For the Best Ruff PC Review (and Video) - Round 2

Upon much discussion on the previous poll, we decided to break this giveaway down to 3 rounds. We received quite a few comments and emails like how people are supposed to read all the 80 reviews, and concerns about "bribing" for votes among other things led us to take this measure to allow the best reviewer win - not the one with most loyal friends. This is not a popularity contest and we hope the giveaway goes for the one who deserve it most. For a prize of this size, it is much more logical to have a few rounds rather than voting it off in a single poll. So, this is how it will be.

From the total 80 reviews, Top 20 made it to the second round and you have 5 days to vote for the best. On December 30th, Top 5 of round 2 poll will make it to the final round and those finalists will be voted down to one winner in another 5 days. The winner will be announced on Friday, January 4th 2008 on a separate post, and Ruff PC will get in touch with you to send out your Christmas New Year's gift.

There are a few rules as to how you can collect your votes this round. You can't spam people or bribe them with money. Use of any other non-monetary incentives like giving out links, kisses or candy is fine. However, you can vote only once and any violation of these rules or gaming the system will leave the participant out of the giveaway. So, no cheating. It's holiday season people - let's keep the spirit up.

Following is the Top 20 reviews from the first round in reverse order. If you don't have time to read them all, just read a few random ones until you find a review that you think is worthy of your vote. Merry Christmas and good luck!


LIST OF SEMI-FINALISTS (Votes from Previous Round)

01. John Chow Dot Com (5)

02. Homespun Honolulu (5)

03. Zero Hour Sleep (5)

04. Everything and Anything (5)

05. Jim's Rants (6)

06. Great Giveaways (6)

07. Samuel Nova (6)

08. Nakichiam (8)

09. Tim Christie (8)

10. Evangelical's Anonymous (10)

11. In The Brink of the Mental Warzone (10)

12. Kissowa Insider (14)

13. Drops of Blood (15)

14. Bloggrrl (17)

15. Must Read Files (21)

16. Love and Horny (23)

17. Widget's Lab (55)

18. Search for Blogging (73)

19. TechTreak - Review 1 and Review 2 (85)

VOTE FOR THE BEST:



UPDATE 1: Forgot to mention that votes from previous round will be added to the poll to choose the finalists. So, your efforts to gather votes are not wasted. Here are the results from the first round (click on it to see the PollDaddy report):



UPDATE 2: We also started a little side-contest, if you will, for the videos that were created by the reviewers. The rights of the best video will be bought by Ruff PC and used on the website, commercials..etc like Apple did. If you haven't already created a video, you can join now by mashing up something in less than 10 minutes using Animoto, send us your URL via email, and we will add it here. The following are the videos created so far and they are up for votes as well. The same route applies: Top 5 videos that make it to the final round will be voted again, counting the votes from this round as well, to choose the winner.

LIST OF VIDEO ENTRIES

01. TechTreak - Demo 1




02. TechTreak - Demo 2









VOTE FOR THE BEST VIDEO:


UPDATE 3: Wordout emailed me and opted out of the giveaway. Good luck to the rest of you!

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24 December 2007

Orgasmic Childbirth?

Now here is something different. A quick wikisearch leads to the Unassisted Childbirth (UC) page where it mentions that "the reasons for choosing to give birth unassisted range greatly from mother to mother but a few key factors are common to most... The understanding that birth is an intimate, sexual, and potentially orgasmic experience, and that privacy is absolutely essential for the erotic dimension of birth." There is a potentially Not Safe For Work (NSFW) link with more information about this concept but here is Laura Shanley's thoughts:

My introduction to the concept that birth could be orgasmic came via my college roommate Kim. We were discussing painless birth (I had just read Childbirth without Fear) when Kim casually said, "You know, some women actually have orgasms as they're giving birth. My mom had one with me."

What?! Even as open minded as I thought I was, the concept was almost embarrassing. I imagined this "mother" lying in a hospital bed, having an orgasm in front of a bunch of strangers - and doctors, no less. Yet I was definitely intrigued. If conception feels good, why not childbirth?

In the years to come, I would read about this phenomenon again and again, and although in my own births I was never able to achieve it, I think that in time, it will become more commonplace. Little by little, our culture is ridding itself of the fear, shame, and guilt that keep many of us from experiencing sex - let alone birth - as orgasmic. Perhaps someday, if we can fully accept our sexual natures, more of us will be able to know the joy that the following women have known."



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20 December 2007

POLL: Vote For the Best Ruff PC Review

ruggedThe time has come and all the reviews are now up for votes. If you don't see your entry listed please send us an email. You have 5 days to vote for the best entry in this poll and the person with highest votes will win a brand new RuffBook Tech. Hopefully this way it will be fair and ensure we give equal opportunities to everyone at winning this stellar prize! The winner will be announced on Tuesday, December 25th 2007 on a seperate post, and Ruff PC will get in touch with you to send out your Christmas gift. Good luck!


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:

01. Jim's Rants
02. Boredom Relief
03. Brain Ticklers
04. Bali Dream Home
05. Listening Learning Living
06. Blog Paradise
07. Search for Blogging
08. Writing From the Inside Out
09. My Life With IT
10. Tanny's Blog
11. Web Extremities
12. Truth or Dare
13. Rugged Notebooks Blog
14. ROTUS
15. Widget's Lab
16. The Pink C
17. Diet Pulpit
18. Bloggers School
19. The SOHO Quest
20. Everything and Anything
21. Great Giveaways
22. Blissful Travel
23. Rene O'Deay
24. Evangelical's Anonymous
25. Drops of Blood
26. ORIGENA
27. Life Cycle Analysis
28. Learn To Earn Too
29. Easy Tech Talk
30. Contest Bytes
31. Love and Horny
32. What's On My Mind
33. Wordout - Review 1, Review 2 and Review 3
34. The Electronic Replicant
35. The Pond
36. Trajcov Blog
37. Homespun Honolulu
38. Yakrib's Weblog
39. Diet and Weight Loss Programs
40. Must Read Files
41. Ang Alamat ni Huanito
42. Adventure Bookshelf
43. In The Brink of the Mental Warzone
44. TechTreak - Review 1 and Review 2
45. Thinking Tunnel
46. Colour Blind
47. Bloggrrl
48. Wickedly Cool Bean
49. The World According To Candes
50. About Blog Contests
51. ProBlogContester
52. Cardiogirl
53. Blogging Made Devilishly Simple
54. Needless Productions
55. Where the Walls are Soft
56. Prince John Blog
57. Laura Williams' Musings
58. John Chow Dot Com
59. Tim Christie
60. ITBBlog
61. Samuel Nova
62. Blog with Ric
63. Million Dollar Portfolio
64. Mini Billion
65. DOMTAN
66. Nakichiam
67. WebMoi
68. Decrepit Old Fool
69. Zero Hour Sleep
70. Milan Dinic's Blog
71. Arimou's World
72. Kissowa Insider
73. Quest To Write
74. TechZi
75. SpinningSilk Multimedia
76. My Blog Contest
77. Tech E Blog
78. Indo Consoles
79. Diana's Journal
80. Techno Updates

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PS. Can anyone help me get the p