Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Top 10: Creative Resumes

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In hard economic times, like these, when jobs are few to come by and the line to interviews stretch all the way to the parking lot. Then, getting the job may require something other than your charming good looks, excellent references and rhetorical skills.

Creative resumes are one way to woo a potential employer or at least make them remember you. We’ve found ten people who’ve made some truly inspiring resumes, in print and web.

1. Temitope Soda



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Top 10: Pictures of Crazy Goats

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Top 10: Awesome Photobombs

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We all have a couple of photobombs just waiting to be commented on Facebook or otherwise discovered. Some douche obstructing a perfectly nice photo of you posing with your girlfriend. Your pet curious of the lens as the camera goes off. Some guy giving you a high five as you are posing in front of the Tower of Pisa. Already the web is filled with hundreds of excellent photobombs, here are our ten favorites. Now try and top these.

Military Photobomb



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Top 10: Hackers (who got caught)

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Who are the best hackers ever? The responses to this question often give way to a polarizing debate. After all, these lists often include those caught in the act, and one side argues that the best hackers are those that haven’t been. Of course, it’s impossible to compile such a list, and the other side argues that if you’re good enough and at it long enough, capture is, as Agent Smith suggests to Neo, inevitable. We tend to take the side of the former argument, so in presenting our list of the Top 10 hackers, we use the qualifier, those

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Most Popular Baby Names

VariousRSS   Various   Top Ten: (North America)


United States:

2008 (Overall)Boys Names1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Ethan
4. Joshua
5. Daniel
6. Alexander
7. Anthony
8. William
9. Christopher
10. MatthewGirls Names1. Emma
2. Isabella
3. Emily
4. Madison
5. Ava
6. Olivia
7. Sophia
8. Abigail
9. Elizabeth
10. Chloe United States:

2008 (Hispanic)Boys Names1. Santiago
2. Sebasti

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Monday, August 30, 2010

All-Time Classic Board Games

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Backgammon
Players: 2
Type: Race
The first of two players to remove their pieces after moving them around the board wins the game of Backgammon. Rolls of the dice enable movement in opposite directions to either avoid or hit an opponent piece back to Start.

Chess
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Chess is a fiercely competitive and complicated strategy-based game where intellect and tactical memory play a large role in the effort to Checkmate an opponents King, or leave it without an opportunity to evade capture.

Checkers
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Checkers is a classic strategy-based board game. On diagonal movement of pieces within designated color, the game is won by capturing all opponent pieces, jumping over them until none remain.

Clue
Players: 3-6
Type: Mystery
Players are considered the suspects of a murder on a board divided into four rooms in a mansion. Clues to the mystery are revealed by suggestion until an accusation is made to determine who the criminal is.

Go
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Also known as Weiqi, Igo, or Baduk, Go is played on a grid with black and white pieces with the goal to increase your own territory, while decreasing your opponents, by removing opponent pieces as they are surrounded on the board.

Monopoly
Players: 2-8
Type: Real Estate
Controlling real estate is the goal in a game of Monopoly. Turns around the board allow a player the opportunity to acquire property or be forced to pay a fee when landing on property owned by an opponent.

Risk
Players: 2-6
Type: War
World domination determines the winner in the classic game of Risk. Player strategy, and luck based on the roll of the dice, dictates battles within wars declared between opposing nations on the board.

Scrabble
Players: 2-4
Type: Word
Scrabble is a game that awards points for forming words from letter tiles given to a player on each turn. Each letter is assigned a point value, and words must be created on the board adjoined to words that already exist on the board.

Sorry!
Players: 2-4
Type: Race
By sliding around the board in pursuit of opponents, a player wins the game of Sorry by attempting to get all of his or her pieces, or pawns, from Start, into the safety zone, and then into Home.

Trivial Pursuit
Players: 2-24
Type: Trivia
In the effort to correctly answer questions in six categories, such as Science, Sports, and Entertainment, a Trivial Pursuit player wins the game by acquiring Pie pieces for each category.
 



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Best Selling Books of All-Time


Year Published: 100 BC - 100 AD
Original Language: Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic
Many copies of The Holy Bible have been freely given away during missionary work.

2. Quotations from Chairman Mao - Authored by Mao Zedong
Book Sales: 800,000,000

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