Scientists Invent Invisibility Cloak for 1,000th Time [Video]

Scientists have developed an invisibility "cloak" using calcite crystal which can hide a paper clip-sized object. This is somehow different than this invisibility cloak. And this one. And this one. They probably keep losing them in the lab. More »

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Tim Ferriss on Marketing the Four-Hour Body (Video)

Tim Ferriss is sitting on top of the world right now. For the second time in two tries he is a New York Times bestselling author thanks to his new book, The Four-Hour Body. This is the follow-up to Tim?s first book, The Four-Hour Workweek, which has sat squarely on the Amazon top 100 list for nearly four years.

To say the least, Tim?s marketing methods ? actually, all of his methods ? are unorthodox. He uses data to figure out how to get the most out of the system and himself. This leads to some innovative and often low-cost tactics. For example, he tested different titles for the Four-Hour Workweek using Google Ads.

I reconnected for breakfast with Tim in New York a couple of weeks back. In this video he summarizes the three strategies he took in marketing his new book. They include:

  • Involving the users in the product development by using choices
  • Embracing video and to make a mark
  • Empowering power users to help you

Innovators can learn a lot from the Tim Ferrisses of the world.

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The Strange Career Path of Super Mario

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The Strange Career Path of Super Mario

After the plumbing thing didn't work out, Mario went on to be a juggler, a soldier, and even a pinball flipper!

By: Kyle Orland February 4, 2011

Super Mario: Demolition Specialist

Super Mario: Demolition Specialist

As Seen In: Wrecking Crew (NES), Wrecking Crew '98 (SNES)

Super Mario just can't seem to stick to one job. We've all seen him as a plumber, a construction worker, a professional athlete, and even a free-lance physician, but as you'll see in the following pages, those are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Bing Trends: Top football search trends

Which player would you most like to watch the big game with? Who was the best looking player on the field this season? What are the odds that you’ll be eating Buffalo wings on Sunday? Which city’s team was searched most often?

Ahead of Sunday’s game, we delved into the search data and conducted a survey to find out.

What’s more, we created an infographic to bring the stats to life. Click on the image to see full screen and download.

Top Football Search Trends: We looked at the most popular search terms associated with pro football over the course of the season. Here are some the interesting trends:

  • If number of searches indicates who is going to win on Sunday, it looks like we’re going into overtime because the Packers and Steelers are neck and neck for total Bing searches.
  • Take heart Dallas. If making it to the big game was based only on Bing searches, we would be watching the Cowboys compete this weekend.
  • Brett Favre, Randy Moss and Michael Vick were in the top five most searched players. Looks like on- the-field success combined with off-the-field news can propel players to the top.

And the survey says:

  • While 39% said Tom Brady is the best looking NFL player, he came in second behind Peyton Manning in the favorite player category.*
  • When asked what player they would most like to watch the Super Bowl with, Peyton Manning received 55% of the vote.
  • 40% of people polled  rated Buffalo wings as their top football snack.

It’s been a great season. And hopefully Bing has helped you make the most of it with our line-up of features including player comparisons and stats, taxi fare calculator, weather, recipes, local restaurants and bars, parking lot finders and more. Head over to www.bingfootball.com to learn more.

- Danielle Tiedt, General Manager, Bing

Additional posts of interest:

Bing: Your ticket to fall football

Cast your vote for the "Most Decisive Super Bowl Moment of All Time"

 

Source: http://www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/search/archive/2011/02/01/bing-trends-top-football-search-trends.aspx

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Bing Trends: Top search trends for The Grammy?s

On February 13th, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Arcade Fire will battle it out to see who will take home the Grammy for Album of the Year.  Will it come down to a “lady” or will the California girl extinguish the “Fire”?   It’s anyone’s guess, but if people searching Bing determined the outcome the statue would go to Lady Gaga.

Once again, we have delved into the search logs to read the tea leaves and highlight any interesting trends around the Grammy’s.   Here you go:

  • Interest in Grammys up 237% year over year
  • Justin Bieber queries up 10X year over year
  • Katy Perry searches are up 218% year over year
  • Lady Gaga is up 108% year over year
  • The most searched popular artists since the last Grammy’s:  Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry

To add a bit of color to the data, we’ve created an infographic.  (Click on the thumbnail to see rendered at fullscreen.)

You can check out the nominees across all categories with the Grammy’s Visual Search Gallery.  Whether you’re looking for “album of the year” or “best new artist”, you can sort by category in a matter of clicks.

- The Bing Team

 

Source: http://www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/search/archive/2011/02/04/bing-trends-top-search-trends-for-the-grammy-s.aspx

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Joystiq Podcast 168 - Groundhog Day edition

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The release calendar continues to be pretty empty, so Dead Space 2 is still the bell of the ball. Justin talks up a couple iPhone games, and LittleBigPlanet 2 gets what's coming to it. It's a light week in the news department, but that's made up for in emails. There are a couple of Kinect titles in the pipeline and one of those happens to be "the most realistic and intense sports simulations ever created." Are you excited?

Don't forget about PAX East. We're doing it big again this year. Don't believe us? Just check out this slick teaser.

Thanks to Alan Black for this photoshop of the boys proving that they are alive.

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Mark Zuckerberg Gets Another Letter from Congress [Privacy]

Congress, having discovered Facebook last year, can't get enough of asking Mark Zuckerberg questions about its privacy policies. They just sent him a letter grilling him about Facebook's plan to give third-party developers access to more user data. More »

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Success in Frugal Living

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Have you noticed that people who are successful at living frugally- living on less than they make and saving and investing - are always asked how they did it and seem to expect a 3 point solution that will be as easy as waking up and putting on underwear in the morning.

There is a trap to thinking that there is a magic key that will unlock success and it can be replicated the exact same way by each and every person. Unfortunately, this is not the truth of the matter.

Before I go further, I want to make it clear that we can all learn lessons from people who have achieved a successful frugal life. Sometimes their correct decisions and roads taken in life can work in similar way for you. And like birds who find nourishment in the crumbs we drop, we also can find useful ideas from the lives of those who have succeeded before us.

As we journey toward a frugal life, there are a few things to consider so that you don't get tripped up along the way. Just as I want to be successful, I want you too as well.

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1.No Magic Key
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

 
A successful frugal life has no key to open up steps that, if done in the right order, will take you right to a life of financial freedom. I wish that were true, but in my 37 years on this earth I have found that nothing is that simple except a recipe. If you look at those who have frugal living down, you will notice that nothing has come easy to them. They make mistakes and learn from them and they know that the goal for a frugal life is one of patience, hard work, doing things they may not want to, and all to get an end result that they are happy about. It doesn't fall into their lap; instead they put one foot in front of the other and move towards the goal they have in mind.


2.No Conclusion to Life

Despair is the conclusion of fools
Benjamin Disraeli

Life never comes to a conclusion as long as you still take in it's richness and expel your own thoughts and ideas. Through the process of my under-employed days, I have learned that frugal living is tossing me a new set of challenges that I thought I would be prepared for. I am very aware that I need to keep in the forefront of my mind all that I have accomplished and all that I have learned and use those to my best abilities, but also take those ideas and grow them beyond my initial understanding while using my creativity.

3. Enjoy the Journey
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams, Jr.

It bears repeating again, we need to remember that if it weren't for the journey, we would have no lessons learned and wouldn't be stronger in character for it further down the road. Make sure you look back on something you have achieved and realize what a large hurdle that was at the time. Now look at the hurdles you have today, would you be able to handle these back before you got over those other hurdles, earlier in your life? However difficult things are in life, we become stronger people because of them. Consider how our generation looks upon those who went through the 1930's and 1940's. We too can be great people because of our bumps in the road.

4. Don't Run, Walk
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

How many times have we been told that at the swimming pool as kids. Don't run, Walk! We all get a chance in the pool. It certainly would be more exciting to win the pot of gold at the end of the megamillions jackpot. But such a small percentage of people actually keep that money and then they also have to deal with the new found friends and family sticking out their hands.

Instead, taking our passion to live frugally, and we have the time to learn the best way to make and use that money that comes to us. We are already in a rush to learn the new technology that come out every year and are used to cheap  gadgets that can be replaced faster that fixing them. Building anything worthwhile takes time, whether that is the home you live in or garden you grow.

5. Passion Flickers
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

Your passion, your desire, your drive to find that financial freedom, to living frugally isn't something that can be taught at a seminar or learned through a Youtube video. You bring that one small flickering flame to the game and you stoke the flame with knowledge, inspiration from others, hard work and patience. Taking action as you learn will cause the flame to spread throughout your life. For each of us the frugal life is a unique flame that only our life experiences, inner voice and  personal skills  can determine how far we go.

6. Trust That You Can
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
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By all means call upon the help of mentors and friends who have walked the road before you. But, Remember that we each have a unique path to go and it is our hard work that brings the goals we have set for ourselves to come to fruition. Sometimes we look to other because we don't trust ourselves to do our own thing and trust our decisions. We need to learn that starting today, we need to listen to what our heart, our intuition, our gut is saying and start acting on what feels right. The only person who can regret a life is the one living it.


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