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The size of our universe (and wow the Sun is small)
These images show the size of our solar system in relation to some of the stars in the universe. The source seems to be the Observatory at the University of California, Irvine and is part of a teaching guide. The photos show the size of the Earth relative to the other
planets in our solar system, and then to the sun before comparing the Sun to some of the larger stars in the universe. In addition to the photos below, check the original post for information about the shape, size and temperature of some of the biggest things known to mankind.
Something I wrote for BahamasLocalNews.com. It blows my mind every time I see it.
Make your own iPhone ringtones
There are not many email subscriptions that I actually check but http://www.iphone4jailbreak.org/ is one of them. They usually post useful apps and tricks for the iPhone including the latest news on hacks and unlocks. They present their information clearly and consicely which I appreciate.
One of their latest posts about making your own ringtones for your iPhone is a good example. When I looked for info on this I had to search several forums to get a straight answer. Here they have it all laid out.
So, search your iTunes library and get to customizing. I know iPhone has tons of awesome ringtones (bitter, sarcastic laughter) but you should at least know how to make your phone say "Gucci Gucci Louis Louis Fendi Fendi Prada . . . "
Click here to see the post and start customizing.
Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture"; getting what you want AND being happy
Thirty seconds is enough to suck you into this video. In fact, if you haven't taken an hour and sixteen minutes out of your life to watch this video you have missed something special.
Pausch is an exceptional speaker and a first-class teacher. Even if I disagreed with everything he said I would have to admire the way he made his points. Luckily for me I agree with him wholeheartedly.
I find that when you have a big idea you find yourself taking great pains to use small words so they don't get in the way (or so I've heard from people who actually have them).
This gentleman had many big ideas and fulfilled so many of them. His humility, intelligence and most of all compassion should give us all reason to pause before we cry cynically to the heavens about the darkness in the world. For me he is a great lesson in the way giving to others ends up giving even more to you. And not in that syrupy way but in that concrete, "holy crap I'm lucky!" kind of way.
The speech he is giving is for the school's series called The Last Lecture
The speech is given ten months before he died of liver cancer. He is married and has three children.
He said he can't talk about his family because he will cry.
Pausch is an atheist (yay!) which he sneaks into the speech without alienating anyone.
The speech is about acheiving your dreams. Like most good speeches it involves real-world examples from his life. He is also very funny.
I challenge you to watch this without learning something about yourself and feeling good. Immediately followed by immense sadnes that this wonderful human is now gone. Best wishes to his family.
He also talks about "Head-fake" learning; learning something you did not expect to learn when you are learning something else.
"When you're screwing up and nobody is telling you any more it means they've given up."
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
"Brick walls are there to stop people that don't want it badly enough."
"Give someone enough time and they will impress you." (usefull when they are pissing you off)
