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50 Tips On How To Get Perfectly Clear Skin

Posted: 28 Feb 2015 03:13 AM PST

Clear skin is he greatest accessory a woman can wear and properly taking care of your skin requires a lot of attention and a little effort. Here are 50 tips on how to get perfectly clear skin. 1.  If every month you struggle with breakouts, try reducing the intake of alcohol and dairy products. You […]

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Famous Plastic Surgeries Gone Wrong

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 12:28 PM PST

If you were thinking  its was time for you to turn to plastic surgery, look at these pictures and think again. Here is a list of famous plastic surgeries gone wrong. Who doesn't want to maintain their young looks and tight soft skin for as long as possible,or even forever? The desperation of defeating ageing […]

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Boston Entrepreneur is Trying to Make Money by Shipping Snow to Warmer Places in the US

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 05:10 AM PST

In true entrepreneurial spirit, Boston-based Kyle Waring is trying to make the best of a difficult situation. Boston has experienced one of the worst winters this year, receiving a record-breaking 8.3 feet of snow. Instead of complaining about it like most people, Kyle is actually attempting to make a profit by selling the excess snow.

The Massachusetts native created a start-up called 'Ship Snow', through which he's delivering chunks of snow to people living in warmer areas of the US where snow rarely falls. "This snow is wicked," the official website reads. "This is historic snow. Boston Snow. This is your chance to not only own a piece of history, but also help save Boston from #Snowmageddon 2015! Every order counts!" The packaging options include a 16.9 oz snow bottle for $19.99, a 6 lbs. box of packed snow for $89, and a 10-pound package for $119. The website promises to deliver snow to any destination in the U.S. in 20 hours flat. But there's an exception: "We will not ship snow to any states in the northeast! We're in the business of expunging snow!"

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Dutch Artist Takes Taxidermy to a Whole New Level of Creepiness

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 04:31 AM PST

28-year-old Noortje Zijlstra is a part of a new group of Dutch artists who are gaining recognition for their fusion of taxidermy and art. Noortje, in particular, takes the macabre practice of taxidermy to the next level – some of her pieces include a white dove's head mounted on a shuttlecock,  a stuffed squirrel standing on its hind legs with a test tube in its throat serving as a flower holder, and a single preserved baby chicken leg mounted on a wooden stand, covered in fluffy white feathers. Her studio is also home to a family of mice with their hides replaced by decorative colored sugar.

"My work fuses taxidermy and art, sometimes creating work that may shock or even revolt, but I hope it serves as a catalyst for conversation," she said. Her latest work involves a frozen crow carcass; she's not yet sure what it's going to become, but she hopes that the final piece gets people talking. During an interview with AFP, she demonstrated how she cuts into the bird's breastbone before removing its insides. "This is what I do," she said. "I take its 'jacket' off and use it as a medium for art. As soon as that happens, it ceases to be a dead animal."

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Tiny Pony Gets Periscope So He Can See Out of His Stall

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:39 AM PST

At 43 inches, Pedro, an adorable pint-sized Shetland pony, is so small that he can't even see over his own stable door. Fortunately, a group of schoolchildren recently found a solution to his problem – they designed a special equine periscope just for him. The cardboard contraption, aptly named the 'Pedroscope', is fixed to the 60-inch gate and uses carefully placed mirrors in order to give 14-year-old Pedro a view of the world outside his stall.

Owing to his small stature, Pedro was given a home at Ebony Horse Club, a struggling charity in London that gives disadvantaged children a chance to engage with horses. But builders estimated that it would cost thousands of pounds to create a custom-made miniature stable for the cute pony. So the charity turned to local school children for help, and they rose to the occasion quite beautifully. They came up with the design for the cardboard periscope, which was later built by printing firm Print & Cut.

"We got an email from the Ebony Horse Club who were asking for our help, it was so nice, and a little bit funny, that we decided to give it a go," said Andy Morris, owner of Print & Cut. “The sketch was sent to us and then I turned it into a 3D sketch with some software, and then it was sent to be made. It was all quite easy, and we did it for free to help Pedro. As soon as I saw it, I thought it was funny and knew it would be relatively easy for us to do, and we'd make the pony and children pretty happy."

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Brilliant Costumes by Agnieszka Osipa

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 04:08 AM PST

Brilliant Costumes by Agnieszka Osipa


Agnieszka Osipa is a fashion designer based in Gliwice, Poland creating rich, majestic and marvellous costumes. She graduated from the Lodz Academy of Fine Arts, with diploma in fashion design. Below you may check out some of her creations.



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Spider Light: Creepy-Crawly Lamp Clings with Magnetic Legs

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 12:30 PM PST

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This lamp seems to come to life in a way that might creep out all you arachnophobes out there, clinging to surfaces in a decidedly spider-like way. The SpYder light by design firm daast is a tripod lamp that can be attached to surfaces in a variety of ways, pointing the light wherever it's needed. Designers Andrew Southwood-Jones and Alexander Kashin of daast met while studying architecture, but paired up to work on design after discovering a shared passion for putting unusual materials to use in innovative ways. Read more…

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Leonard Nimoy AKA Mr. Spock passes away at 83

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 10:34 AM PST

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Today is a sad day for trekkies and geek culture around the world as Leonard Nimoy has passed away at 83, a victim of pulmonary disease.

Leonard Nimoy, probably the most well known actor of the original Star Trek series has passed away at age 83, according to The New York Times. According to reports, he was suffering of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, caused by years of smoking (which he had quit decades ago). Nimoy was, besides an incredible and beloved actor, a prolific artist undertaking in writing, a photography, and music. Yet it is his role as Spock which changed the world and geek culture forever.

The original Star Trek series had icons such as Nimoy himself along with William Shatner and George Takei, and many other men and women who have found their way into the collective subconsciousness forever, all thanks to a three season series from the 1960s. When movies started coming out, Leonard reprised his role many, many times and even voiced animated versions of his character and appearing in J.J. Abrams’ reboot. He was deeply involved with the universe and his character, having written two biographies about it titled I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock. And to us, he will forever be. We’ll miss you Leonard.

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LG Introduces their first non-Android 4G smartwatch

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 07:00 AM PST

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WebOS has gotten a second wind thanks to LG and their latest smartwatch, the LG Watch Urbane.

The LG Watch Urbane LTE has finally been show, and it is one of the greatest hardware pieces we’ve seen in a while: capable of connecting to 4G networks and running on the proprietary LG Wearable Platform operating system based on WebOS also used on LG TVs is a breath of fresh air on an industry where everything seems to be either Android or iOS.

LG had introduced a previous version of Urbane which did run Android Wear, Google’s OS for wearable gadgets, so it seems that for the time being LG plans to support both, which in the end is a clever decision, as no one knows as of now what exactly they want on their smartphones.

The Urbane LTE is the fourth smartwatch released by LG, and just like previous models it sports a 1.3 plastic-organic-light-emitting diode circular display with an always-on “ambient mode”, a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 4 GB of memory. The new details, though, include the fact that it works on its own without pairing it with a smartphone and can receive calls and send text messages, while also using a better battery that makes it last (at least on stand-by mode) for days.

But the Urbane LTE has a few key differences from its non-LTE sibling. With an independent LTE connection, it can make and receive calls and text messages. It also has a heftier 700 mAh battery, offering several days in standby mode. The physical buttons on the side serve to access settings, switching between apps, and even an option to send a distress beacon to a preset contact. Users will be able to get a better look at the Urbane Watch LTE at the next WMC 2015 in Barcelona.

Via CNET

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Lenovo Admits It Should Have Known About Superfish’s Flaws

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 05:00 AM PST

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Chinese company Lenovo has loaded adware on many of its machines, and it has now been revealed that it could leave users vulnerable to hacks.

Ads, we realise, can be annoying. As far as a form of revenue goes, it’s important for Internet users that they aren’t intrusive, they aren’t annoying and they don’t scream audio in the next browser tab whilst you’re trying to browse the web. We can’t avoid them entirely so most of us just get on with it. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for those who use Lenovo computers as those users are now at risk thanks to the Chinese company’s ad policies.

To explain, Lenovo preloads adware into its devices. Adware is software that automatically displays or downloads ads onto your computer; while it’s generally annoying, it’s not usually harmful. The reason why Lenovo’s adware (called Superfish) is such a problem is because it does the following:

“[Superfish] installs a self-generated root certificate into the Windows certificate store and then resigns all SSL certificates presented by HTTPS sites with its own certificate.”

According to PC World, that leaves "a weakness that hackers could potentially use to steal sensitive data like banking credentials or just observe your web surfing activities." Keep in mind that Lenovo is the biggest manufacturer of computers in the world and so millions of people across the globe are now vulnerable.

How could Lenovo have possible missed this? That’s a very good question and Lenovo CEO Peter Hortensius said this week that "We should have known that going in that that was the case. We just flat-out missed it on this one, and did not appreciate the problem it was going to create… we are taking our beating like we deserve on this issue."

His explanation doesn’t really answer the question since it seems mind-boggling that a company with as many smart minds as Lenovo didn’t realise that a piece of software designed to disrupt SSL certificates (SSL certificates are what make sure that the data passed between your browser and the server stays private) couldn’t be intercepted to steal user data.

What is hopeful is that Lenovo has promised not to install Superfish onto any more of its devices and PC World also has a guide you can use to find out if your PC is affected and how you can uninstall the software.

Source: Re/code

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