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The Honky Tonk Man Predicts TNA's Future...

You won't care about any of this if you're not a wrestling fan, but here it is!! Everything from here is the post from the WWE Forums inc the comments!

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The Honky Tonk Man Predicts TNA's Future...: "

Credit: Prowrestling.net


Former WWE wrestler The Honky Tonk Man posted a brief blog on his official website predicting that TNA will go out of business within the next year. "Seems (Eric) Bischoff has more stroke than (Hulk) the next year. "Seems (Eric) Bischoff has more stroke than (Hulk) Hogan," Honky wrote. "Hogan lays back and lets Bischoff take the heat. Hogan," Honky wrote. "Hogan lays back and lets Bischoff take the heat."Old days gone by, good cop, bad cop. TNA will be dead in 12 months. Jeff Jarrett is too smart for this. Who is working who? Is Jeff working southern bell Dixie (Carter) or is Jeff working all of them to get a payday off Hogan?" To read the full blog, visit HonkyTonkMan.net.

You gotta love THTM and the way his words come together. The man is GOLDEN!

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Best Divorce Letter Ever.

This is truly something else! Words could not accurately convey!

Best Divorce Letter Ever.: "submitted by alecb
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Is the Internet a Fundamental Right? [POLL]

Is the Internet a Fundamental Right? [POLL]: "

In a study conducted by the BBC World Service, four in five respondents said they believe web access is a fundamental right. 90% described the Internet as “a great place to learn,” and 78% considered it a source of “greater freedom.” A bit more than half said that the Internet should not be regulated by government at all.

27,000 people form 26 countries were surveyed, and their responses varied by location. While a large number of people from the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Korea said the Internet shouldn’t be regulated, many residents of China, Pakistan and Turkey disagreed; only 16% of Chinese, 12% of Pakistani and 13% of Turkish respondents said the Internet shouldn’t be regulated.

We’re always curious where our readers stand, especially since this is a hot issue right now with the recent struggle between Google and China. Where do you fall on this issue? Take part in the poll below, and feel free to elaborate in the comments.

Tags: News, Political, poll, rights, web

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Bloglines - Learning Should Be Fun

Really good article!

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Mind Hacks The blog of the O'Reilly book 'Mind Hacks'

Learning Should Be Fun By tom on Learning Learning can and should be fun. This is not just a moral position, but a scientific one too. When you learn a new thing, or get a surprise, there is a shot of a chemical messenger in your brain called dopamine. Dopamine is famous among neuroscientists for its involvement in the reward and motivation systems of the brain. You won't be surprised to learn that the reason addictive drugs are addictive is that they hack the reward circuitry that dopamine is intimately involved in. Perhaps the most addictive drug, cocaine, directly increases the amount of dopamine at work in your brain. Learning something new triggers a chemical release of the same kind as cocaine, albeit in a much more subtle manner. As methods of getting your kicks you can perhaps compare it to the difference between walking up a hill yourself or being strapped to a rocket and blasted up --- slower, harder work, but a lot more sustainable and you're in a better state to enjoy the view when you get there! The reason for this electro-chemical connection between learning and drugs of reward is that our brains have obviously been designed to find learning fun. One of the many negative things about the misconception that education is about transmitting content is the idea that any fun you have is taking time away from proper learning, and that 'proper learning' shouldn't be fun. Rather than fun being a relief from learning, or a distraction from it, for most of our history, before school, learning had to be its own motivation. Brains that learnt well had more offspring, and so learning evolved to be rewarding. In lots of teaching situations we focus on the right and wrong answers to things, which is a venerable paradigm for learning, but not the only one. There is a less structured, curiosity-driven, paradigm which focusses not on what is absolutely right or wrong, but instead on what is surprising. A problem with rights and wrongs is that, for some people, the pressure of being correct gets in the way of experiencing what actually is. You can try this for yourself, either in any teaching you do, or any learning. Often we will get blocked at a particular stage in our learning. A normal response is to try harder, and to focus more on what we're doing right, and what we're doing wrong. Sometimes this helps, but sometimes it just digs us further into our rut. The way out of the rut is to re-focus on experiencing again. I'll give you an example from one of the two things I know best about teaching --- aikido, the japanese martial art. Aikido involves some quite intricate throws and grappling moves. Often a student is so intent on getting through the move, and on trying hard to get it right, that they become completely stuck, repeatedly doing something that doesn't work, and usually too fast. Even if you say or show explicitly the correct movement, they can't seem to get it. In this situation, one teaching technique I use, inspired by the 'Inner Game' writings of Timothy Gallway, is to tell the student to stop trying to do the move correctly, and instead do it deliberately wrong. "Try pushing over this way to the left", I'll say, "Now try the opposite over to the right. Now try high, or low. Which is easiest?". By removing the obligation to get the move correct I hope to give permission to the student to just experience the effect they are having on their partner's balance. Once they can tune into this they can figure out for themselves what the right thing to do is, without me having to tell them. However you do it, if you can get out of the rut of right and wrong you free up a natural capacity for experience-led, curiosity-driven learning. Soon you'll be flying along again, experiencing the learning equivalent of the jogger's high, and all thanks to that chemical messenger dopamine and a brain that's evolved to find things out for itself, and feel good while doing it. Part of a series. #1 Learning Makes Itself Invisible Cross-posted at schoolofeverything.com Image: jogging on the beach by Naama

What Equals 100%?

What Equals 100%? (This is cool!)

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint: What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give 100%? How about ACHIEVING 100%. What equals 100% in life? Now, take a look at this?
Here?s a little mathematical formula that might help Answer these questions:

If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Is represented as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

then H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98% and K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that: While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, Attitude will get you there !

YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos

They don't have all the bugs worked out of this yet. Some of the captioning can be quite hilarious.

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Waxy.org Links

YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study: "submitted by SolInvictus to science
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Too funny! I just hope that no valuable taxpayer dollars were spent on this!!

Whatever to do with this blog!

I don't know maybe just tear it down and start all over. Random is even too random for a guy whose life is one big fricken tangent. We'll see...

A pet peeve of mine.....abuse of words that end in -ity...

...by lazy singers using "creative license". So sanity becomes san-uh-dee, obscenity becomes ob-sen-uh-dee, integrity becomes in-teg-ruh-dee, and quah-luh-dee. I have heard a few singers do this, most notably Hilary Duff in her song "Come Clean" a few years ago. Don't know why it bugs me.....it just sounds dumb.