20 Useful Google search tips

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Learning how to use Google search effectively can boost your productivity instantly.  

Steve Jobs’ yacht – Venus, revealed in the Aalsmeer, Netherlands (VIDEO)

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Venus, Steve Jobs’ 250-foot yacht, has finally been revealed in the Netherlands. The photos and videos of the boat were first released by Dutch blog One More Thing, and show the details of the meticulously-designed boat that Jobs’ commissioned six years ago and designed with the help of minimalist designer Philippe Starck, ABC News reported. The vessel, [...]

Top Ten Most Expensive Hotel Rooms in the World

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Do you have any travel plans in your future? If so, check your budget and see if you can afford a night at one of these incredible hotels.  The folks at All Time 10s have compiled another awesome list, and this time they rank the ritziest hotels in the world. I don’t know about you, [...]

Check Out These Epic-sized Examples of Public Art

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I’ve always been a fan of outdoor art, and I happen to live in Richmond, Virginia, a city with a growing number of impressive, large-scale murals.  On a recent hike around the downtown area of Richmond, I took these photos of my favorite works and thought I’d share them with you. I did my best [...]

Cool Places: Wabi-Sabi Sushi in Petersburg, Virginia

The sign for the restaurant, Wabi-Sabi.

I admit, I’m something of a foodie and so I’m always looking for interesting restaurants to check out. One of my recent finds was a great sushi place called Wabi-Sabi, in Petersburg, Virginia. A small town in central Virginia might not seem like the most likely place for awesome sushi, but don’t let the location [...]

Artists Let Imaginations Soar in Street Painting Festival

This is an image of a street painting from February 2012. It depicts the characters Beavis and Butthead.

My advice for any city that wants to give its downtown area an instant upgrade and have a lot of fun in the process – hold a street painting festival like Lake Worth, Florida does every year. Just block off a street, offer some cool prizes for the best creations, and then let a bunch [...]

Reminders about Starting New Healthy Habits

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Have you ever decided to make a change in your life to improve your health, only to return to the unhealthy behavior you were doing before?  We’ve all done it at one time or another – maybe it was trying to improve our sleep routine, giving up cigarettes, or maybe improving our diet. For a [...]

Five Easy and Inexpensive Fitness Tips

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Fitness – it’s a word we hear a lot these days, from news stories about the hottest exercise trend to infomercials for the latest workout gadget. Sometimes, it seems like in order to improve our fitness we have to run out and buy a ton of costly equipment or enroll in a pricey exercise class. [...]

Richard Branson’s Bash at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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On the forefront of things it’s interesting to see how certain events shape themselves into progressive connections. In case you didn’t know. Sir Richard Branson started a chain of record stores called Virgin Records, after that the Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s. At that time Virgin Atlantic Airways was set up and the [...]

Palm, Psychic, and Tarol Readings: What Does Each Offer?

Palm, Psychic, and Tarol Readings: What Does Each Offer?

Sometimes in life, we all want a little divine direction to tell us where our lives are headed. While some turn to their omnipotent being, others seek the help of a medium such as those that provide palm, psychic, and tarot card readings. However, knowing the difference between these three types of readings and what [...]

Utopia – The Perfect Government

Utopia - The Perfect Government

In the midst of all this economic crisis and politic corruption I can’t stop wondering, what and how would the perfect government be? A few months ago I read a book by Thomas More called Utopia – he imported this word from the Greek – and the book was all about describing a perfect society [...]

How do you earn cash online? Or do you? Ideas here!

How do you earn cash online? Or do you? Ideas here!

I have been making money online for a while, and it still amazes me to this day of how many people still don’t realize the potential of this bazzilion dollar industry. The number of ways that one can make money online is such a huge margin that I won’t be able to put it all [...]

Top 15 Time Quotes

Top 15 Time Quotes

15) By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it. – Malcolm Forbes 14) But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. – Benjamin Disraeli 13) A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly 12) When [...]

Attracting the Best Apartment for You

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If you are not ready or willing to buy a home, welcome to the club. A recent Chicago Tribune article reports that the number of renter households “could increase by 360,000 to 470,000 annually between 2010 and 2020” according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. No shock there. Many look at owning a home [...]