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Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought) Home of Cecil Adams' weekly question and answer column.

MyLife Organized (MLO) is a personal task outliner and to-do list manager which will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The To-Do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. This list of next actions will be sorted in order of priority to keep you focused on the most important tasks. MLO is an ideal tool for Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.

Askville is a place where you can share and discuss knowledge with other people by asking and answering questions on any topic. It’s a fun place to meet others with similar interests to you and a place where you can share what you know. You can learn something new everyday or help and meet others using your knowledge. Askville even helps you learn by giving you cool tools to help you find information online while you are answering questions. It’s all about sharing—what you know and what you want to know—so go ahead and meet someone new today and Askville!

You might be a pro at matching your solid-colored ties with your solid-colored shirts, but with trends in recent years emphasizing a mix-and-match approach to fashion, how well do you fare at mixing stripes and patterns? And let’s not even get started on dealing with textures. Fortunately, learning to combine interesting shirts and ties is not as taxing as it sounds. Just stick to a few simple rules and you’ll find that mixing it up has never been easier.

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.

Structured book recommendations "What am I going to read today?" A familiar question to most readers, because it is a struggle choosing what to read next. Well, StoryCode is here to help. StoryCode.com is a unique source of inspiring book recommendations and a great way to find the next book to read. And its power comes from the collaborative passion of readers. Read: Every time you finish a book, tell us all about it. Code: Our questions will code your experience of the story. Find: Our system finds matches and makes recommendations. Love: Books found through StoryCode will surprise and delight you.

uPlayMe is free software that you download to your computer. After it's installed, it looks at the digital media (like songs, videos, and podcasts) that you play and matches you with people who are playing the same things as you. It works based on the things you actually have recently played, not all the stuff in your entire library.

The GUI's is an inter-website contest in which top graphics designers from around the world compete for $15,000 in cash and prizes. This year's contest focuses on WindowBlinds visual styles, IconPackager Icons, and Wallpapers. Anyone can participate as an individual or part of a team.

Uniblue's free and comprehensive online Process Library resource is for anyone who immediately wants to know the exact nature and purpose of any and every single process that is - or should not be - running on your PC.

Now anyone can create a custom image without any technical knowledge or advanced tools. Modify text in a variety of image templates to create professional quality images with your own personal touch. Once you customize an image, you can e-mail it to a friend directly from within the ImageChef site along with an extra text message.

With the launch of the DS-Xtreme, our company has succeeded in setting the standard in which other DS media enhancers will be measured against. Our highly experienced development department strive for quality and innovation, thus ensuring DS-X will always remain as the most sought after range of DS enhancers.

As I’ve spent the last three nights sleeping on the couch I feel a need to try to help my fellow man by providing some useful information to the women of the world. The truth is nearly every man alive looks at porn, and with the internet making porn free, easily accessible, and anonymous, I've never even heard a rumor of a guy who doesn't REGULARLY look at internet porn. If for some reason you don’t think your fella does, your relationship might not be as open and honest as you think. One day you might find yourself jumping on your boyfriend or Husband’s computer to check your e-mail. As you’re typing in the URL you might see a long string pop up with curious words like, “filthy naked underage asian cheerleader sluts.” Maybe you “accidentally” click on this URL and suddenly you’re faced with naked midget grannies doing unspeakable things with vegetables. You might be horrified at what your significant other is looking at, but before you start packing your bags and dividing your DVD’s you should know he might not have wanted to see those pictures any more than you. Here are some things to keep in mind.

Ridester is the first rideshare community to make intercity transportation dependable, rewarding, and fun. Ridester offers instant route-matching, online payment convenience, and a feedback rated community.

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Answer a few simple questions and in the time it takes to warble "fa la la la la", you'll have an excuse that will either endear or enrage a prospective host. By all means, use the Generator as often as you like. Send it to friends. Heck, send it to people you don't even like that much. After all, it's way more entertaining than a lot of holiday parties we could name (but won't). So cozy up with a glass of eggnog. And let the excuses fly.

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features: * High detection rates for viruses and spyware; * Scanning Scheduler; * Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database. * Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer; * Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

Musopen is a community driven, online music repository started by a music and economics college student named Aaron Dunn. This site takes music that is in the public domain, meaning a work that belongs to the community, and has it recorded by individuals and college/community orchestras throughout the United States and stored online so it can be accessed for free through this website. This would do the following: 1. Provide free unlimited access to music in the public domain to anyone with internet access. 2. Allow obscure works, for example some Baroque music, to be recorded for the first time that would otherwise not be recorded because of its small profit potential. 3. Community – being a community driven project, this can create an online music community, perhaps leading to future cooperative projects. 4. Add usefulness to all the untapped talent in our nation’s orchestras. College orchestras perform to diminishing numbers of audiences. Now, every performance adds to the online repertoire, adding another reason to perform and perform well. 5. Create the first organization devoted to giving the public access to musical works which belong to them. This project exists so that educational institutions and the general public can have free, unlimited access to all kinds of music that have expired copyrights. If there is music that by law now belongs to the general public, let's make sure that it is available to the public.

The Ocean Project is an international network of aquariums, zoos, museums, and conservation organizations working to create an understanding among their visitors and members of the significance of the ocean and the role each person plays in conserving our blue planet for the future.

“Death and Taxes” is a representational graph of the federal discretionary budget. The amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President’s annual budget proposal but it must pass both the House and Senate before it goes into effect. While “Death and Taxes” contains an enormous amount of information, the purpose of the graph is to generate questions. The right questions. Your taxes are being spent in your name and mostly likely you are unaware exactly what they are used for. This “Death and Taxes” will hopefully answer that “what” question. The next question that should be asked is “why”?

Not all media is good. In fact, with the high influx of cheap media from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, I'd venture to say most media is bad. This review guide is meant to shed some light on who manufactures and brands good and not so good quality DVD media. Use this list as an assistant when selecting what media to buy and use. It shows what generally works as the best media. Individual results may very, depending on the burner and how the media chooses to cooperate, though typically not by much. Read the advanced topics guide after becoming familiar with the basics presented on this page. While some cheap media may work for you, it's a gamble that often loses. Try to use 1ST and 2ND class media, and to avoid 3RD and 4TH class media, if at all possible.

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The problem with 98% of the photos of Christmas lights is that most people wait until way too late to start shooting. After it gets completely dark, you can either have the lights or the surroundings properly exposed. But not both. Conversely, if you were to shoot the lights in the middle of the day, they would not show up at all. The trick is find the sweet spot (actually there is a whole range of sweet spots) where the ambient light and the Christmas lights balance. Understanding this will ensure that your photos are way better than those of your neighbors. After all, isn't that what Christmas lights are really about?

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