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"The brave new world may be closer than we think. -- Japanese consumers can comparison-shop right in a store by pointing their cell phones at a product's barcode and then be instantly directed to the Internet where they can view the product's comparative price on Amazon.com.jp.- If you're in the United Kingdom and hear a song in a pub or anywhere else, you just need to call 2580, point your cell phone to the music source and Shazam! (name of the London-based company) will send you a text message with the name of the song. - The Dutch have applied these same concepts to real estate so that interested buyers can get instant details on a home by simply pointing their cell phones at it and getting a detailed text message." -- from trendwatching.com-- "John Naisbitt On The Future - Forbes.com" -- "What's Next?: Top Trends" -- "Future Files" --

-- "FOXNews.com - Japanese Scientist's Glasses Can Find Anything - Science News" --

-- -- Try not to get lost, but if you do, remember:
- Moss grows on the north side of trees.
- Gently rub one end of a sewing needle on a refrigerator-magnet and float it on a sheet of paper atop water in a bowl. The end you rubbed will point north.
- When the sun is directly overhead at Noon, you won't cast a shadow. Your later shadow will fall to the East.
- Water drains clockwise from a sink or bathtub in the northern hemisphere.
- On a star-filled cloudless night in the northern hemisphere, find the Big Dipper constellation: 4-stars for the cup and 3-stars for the dipper handle. Then follow-through upwards your line of sight from that far side of the cup to the North Star, "Polaris."
- Odd numbered highways run north and south. Beltways around a city are three digited. Mile markers lead to a city.
- In a city or town, the uneven numbered houses are on the west side and north side of the street [but not always].
- People who use 'Welcome' mats are usually friendly. Knock on their door and ask them, 'How do you get to..?'
- It used to be service when you went into a "Service Station" for gas for your car. Take your chances and ask them there. They'll probably charge you for a map?
- When all else fails, use your cell phone and call-up for directions. ;-)

-- "New Yahoo service helps users share their location" --

-- " Multipurpose Survival Cane: Cyberbooth #437 at Invention Connection? Online Cybershow"

IASL MAP - 1640 South Lindbergh

-- Head for the high-ground. 1) Stomp your feet on trails: Wild animals will avoid you and you may leave a foot-trail. 2) You will find highways above rather than below. 3) Sparser vegitation makes finding you from the air better. 5) Turn your coat or jacket inside-out. The lining is brighter and easier spotted.

-- 4) Don't stand under a tall tree during a rainstorm holding a nine-iron. Switch to a pitching wedge. ;-) This isn't too smart to do, either. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod and you're no substitute for it.

-- "Scientists in Japan have developed an umbrella that has Internet access and allows users to search the Internet while they walk. An electronic device that you carry in a rain storm. What could possibly go wrong?" - Conan O'Brien

-- To all friends who enjoy a glass of wine... and those who don't. Enjoy this bit of advice.

As Ben Franklin said: "In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria."

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember: Water = Poop / Wine = Health.

"Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit."

**There is no need to thank me for this valuable information--I'm doing it as a public service.

-- What you do know will help you. -- What you do know will help you. --

-- Small Business Innovation Research -- -- -- View Latest (SBIR) News -- --

-- "Learn How To Connect Any Device
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-- "Untangling the wires - Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show? & Web" --

-- "Kelley Blue Book - New Car Prices, Used Car Values" --

-- "You Can Call for I.T. Help Without Hiring a Whole Crew - New York Times" --

-- "Intellectual Property Protection" --

-- "Advanced USPTO Search --
-- Locate USPTO web pages and documents" --

-- --> "A Troublesom Theory"

-- For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some useful English system conversions:

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 Lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

1000 aches: 1 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

365.25 days: 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

10 cards: 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

10 rations: 1 decoration

100 rations: 1 C-ration

2 monograms: 1 diagram

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

100 Senators: Not 1 decision

Y-CHROMOSOME A line of genes designed for men only; the cause of virility, war, baldness, hockey, sex crimes, clever inventions and a disinclination to ask for directions when lost.

Doctor Pill: "Now, dear, explain in your own words your addiction." -- -- A Parody on Perfection -- --

-- Doctor Pill: "Now, dear, explain in your own words your addiction."
-- Suzy Q.: "What, what do you mean addiction? I only has dis one slight problem. -- It's a problem, dat's all. -- I taught Doctor Pill, dat you would help me?
-- Doctor Pill: "Suzy, Suzy, Suzy - You have it bad. You have the hardly known but recognized abnormality of what we call advisedly "Not Looking Before You Leap Syndrome." This is very addictive from what I've seen, so put yourself into my capable hands and we will deal with it."
-- Suzy Q.: "Oh, all rights. Let me go back te-da beginnin'. -- I knows! I was lookin' an' lisnin' te my Oprah, when dese two womens came on--an' dey has dis-here invention DEY SOLD IN DA MILLIONS!! An' it was so-o-o simple - an ice-cream cone holdin' tree scoops uv ice-cream - side by side; not one ona tops uv anudder - an' dey has this whipped cream an' nuts ana cherry der in da middle uv it all. -- Kin you juss sees it? -- Deys sold dem an' made among demselves two-million ana-half dollers juss ina one summer-time! Geeze!"
-- Doctor Pill: "So then you decided to do something like inventing something, didn't you? To become a Millionnairess?"
-- Suzy Q.: "Well, yes I did. I taught dat if dey cans duze it, why can't me duze it too?? - My idea was somethin' lyka dat--but wida big diff'rence: My idea wasa wida flavored ice-cream cones; wida choco-lot, a sweet strawm-berry ana key-lima-pies-tastin' kinda cones. -- Alls I hasta-do wasa hookem-up with dem two ladies AN' I WOULDA B'COME RICH! -- Me, Suzy Q., -- RICH, RICH, RICH!"

"What kin dey do to me, a poor woman who don't know no bedder?" -- Doctor Pill: "Now Suzy Q., I don't see your problem? In fact,.. if you had gotten to me a little bit sooner, I would have surely invested in your idea. It sounds great!"
-- Suzy Q.: "Oh, dat's alla right. I stills cana ta-ke your money. - Dat is my problem! I've atook anybodys ana everybody's money. -- I never did puts it into paten'in my idea. "I done spends dat money an' had-a good time." -- It's an "Idea!" I'm no inventor. I gives you dee idea an' you go outs an' paten' it. - I'm gonna bees on Oprahs an' tells 'all' how I done did it! - How I made me my money! - What kin dey do to me, a poor woman who don't know no bedder?"
-- Doctor Pill: "Well I'll be..."

-- "USPTO grants California lawyer patent over entire WWW naming scheme." --
-- "RFC 1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities" --

-- Bet you didn't know this. -- Who's more popular - dogs or cats? It's not an easy call, because while more families have dogs, many households have multiple cats. In fact, the most popular pet is... fish! In the U.S. today, there are 78 million cats, 65 million dogs, and 192 million fish.

--> Get yourself a kitten; you need a Little pussy

"You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them?! What the hell are you doing for the next generation??" -- "A college student at a recent USC football game challenged a senior citizen sitting next to him, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his.

-- "You grew up in a different world," the student said loudly enough for the whole crowd to hear. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, man has walked on the Moon, our spaceships have visited Mars, we even have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing ... and uh.."

-- Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them?! What the hell are you doing for the next generation??" -- Contributed by Charles Mc Closkey - Patent Attorney

-- Time and Tide waits for no man...

-- You Know You're Getting Old When...

Let's face it, we're all going to grow old. But how do we know when we've arrived? We're here to help. You know you're getting old when...

A 30-year mortgage sounds like a pretty clever scam.

You no longer consider staying under the speed limit a challenge.

Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size.

Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the guys with the Live Doppler 10,000.

You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

In a hostage situation, you are likely to be released first.

You know you're a grown-up because you groan every time you get up.

You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

The little old gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife.

You regret all those mistakes you made resisting temptation.

You turn out the light for economic reasons.

Your children begin to look middle-aged.

You have too much room in the house and not enough room in the medicine cabinet.

Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off, and that bundle you've spent on life insurance is starting to look smart, too.

Your best friend is dating someone half their age, and isn't breaking any laws.

You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.

You can live without sex, but not without glasses.

Your back goes out more than you do.

You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.

You're proud of your lawn mower.

Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.

"Getting a little action" means you don't need to take a laxative.

You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police.

Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.

It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.

You're asleep, but others worry you're dead.

You give up all your bad habits and you still don't feel good.

You sing along with the elevator music.

You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.

You learn where your prostate is.

People call at 9:00 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"

You answer questions with, "Because I said so!"

You know what the word "equity" means.

-- "Science news and science jobs from New Scientist"

-- "Technology Review: Special Reports: 10 Emerging Technologies"

-- "Students movies made with cell phones - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com" -- 

Fractured Definitions http://www.members.aol.com/icgc/ic_sminv.htm

-- -- Strange Definitions --

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

Arachnoleptic fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.

Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do.

Beauty Parlor: A place where women curl up and dye.

Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Burglarize: What a crook sees with.

Cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people.

Cashtration: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

Caterpillar: The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

Chickens: The only creatures you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

Counterfeiters: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

Craughed: To laugh and cry simultaneously.

Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.

Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else have your way. (thanks to Bob Z)

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

Eclipse: What an English barber does for a living.

Egotist: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

Eyedropper: A clumsy ophthalmologist.

Flusterpated: Being so flustered that words get bound up inside you.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

Generica: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Gossip: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

Handkerchief: Cold Storage.

Heroes: What a guy in a boat does.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

Inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Instigator: What you add water to when you want an alligator. (thanks to PTA)

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O. J. trials were a prime example.

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

Lasterday: Any day before today.

Left Bank: What the robber did after his bag was full of loot.

Misty: How golfers create divots.

Mosquito: An insect that makes you like flies better.

Mouse Potato: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

Onosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

Paradox: Two physicians.

Parasites: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it to work again.

Perfect Pitch: What it is when you throw a banjo in a dumpster and it didn't hit the sides.

Petranoid: Someone who is both petrified and paranoid. Usually a mother. (thanks to King Bewildered)

Pharmacist:: A helper on the farm.

Phonecrastinate: To put off answering the phone until caller ID identifies the caller.

Polarize: What penguins see with.

Primate: Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

Raisin: Grape with a sunburn.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Relief: What trees do in the spring.

Rubberneck: What you do to relax your wife.

Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Seamstress: 250 pounds in a size six.

Seagull Manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

Secret: Something you tell to one person at a time.

Selfish: What the owner of a seafood store does.

SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

Subdued: Like, a guy, like, who works on one of those, like, submarines, man.

Sudafed: Bringing litigation against a government official.

Swipeout: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

Syndrome: Committing wrongdoing in the Vatican. (thanks to Jeff Dudley)

Tomorrow: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.

Vocabularian: A person who makes up new words.

Wrinkles: Something other people have. You have character lines.

Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

Yawn: An honest opinion openly expressed.

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.