Thursday, July 28, 2011

Chocoholics may unite in celebration, for the news is good: dark chocolate possesses the highest antioxidant content of any food. Chocolates contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and, in milk chocolate, calcium. But it is the antioxidants and the flavonoids which boost good HDL cholesterol levels that has us dancing in pagan delight. The flavonoids in chocolate work in a similar manner to a very low dose of aspirin to prevent blood platelets from clumping together to form a blood clot.

Chocoholics may unite in celebration, for the news is good: dark chocolate possesses the highest antioxidant content of any food. Chocolates contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and, in milk chocolate, calcium. But it is the antioxidants and the flavonoids which boost good HDL cholesterol levels that has us dancing in pagan delight. The flavonoids in chocolate work in a similar manner to a very low dose of aspirin to prevent blood platelets from clumping together to form a blood clot.
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/07/28/happy-national-milk-chocolate-day/

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Originally shared by Akasha Tsang

Originally shared by Akasha Tsang

G+ Tips Compilation
Updating this as I come across things.
Public: https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/BopJAGgtTWG

G+ Cautionaries & Policies:
Ryan Estrada: Breakdown of Google Terms of Service
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/gGrxDAGBniC

Steve Rubel (Maybe?) Choose your email wisely.
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/FbCiCxkQPzU

Various posts regarding names & pseudonyms
Brent Burzycki https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/81g4RCa8r4A

Cassius Wright https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/RetgB9DwTvg

Robert Scole https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Bg8z6hdDWnx

Bradley Horowitz https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU

Mike Elgan https://plus.google.com/113117251731252114390/posts/S6MPEUH25H7

General reminder: It's been floating around, but you should have deduced that anything public is searchable via Google search engine. That includes all G+ behavior such as 1-upping, public shares, comments, etc. It should be logical deduced that this is the case so I'm not including the link to that.

Ryan Estrada: Why individual pictures float to the top of the stream and how to avoid it:
(Also see my G+ Tip "Link to your posts in your Profile" for an alternate solution.) https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/D2AM7abxDjr

G+ Known Issues:
(My plea: Stop posting about it, it's not new and you're not the only one.)
* Nicknames conflict with + mention in posts and comments
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/dFfkkwHQWu9
* Circles are no longer being sorted alphabetically, but they should. They know.
* Blocking someone is not full proof yet.
* When you remove someone from a circle, they will still show up for a while in there. Don't panic.
* Your profile picture is showing up in other people's thumbnails. We get it. They are not stealing your image.
* Sometimes you cannot comment. Don't despair, wait it out and try again later.
* Sometimes +1 doesn't work. See above.
* Comments made from Picasa don't always reflect on posts linking to the image.
* There is a current limit on how many names you can + mention in a single post.

G+ Tips:

Disable Picasa's photo share and downloading features:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Aeva3TcgHgv

Disable email notifications: This is also where you can set up SMS alerts.
2011072008 | motdakasha

Adding direct links to OP when sharing:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/GNQJYuWfwp8

Help your posts go viral by adding direct link in your own post:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/GtinPTSn1nJ

Link to your posts in your Profile
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/WaRNhNqi28C

About Nicknames and + Mentions:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/dFfkkwHQWu9

Respect Copyright Laws
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Sk5eGsKhD9E

If you don't like it, hide it.
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Sje9BxaZSmV

Title everything so people can find it!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/57n5BK5CM5N

When your Toolbar Share Box control buttons disappear https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/bibsCgqAaV2

Using tabs to "pause" your stream:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/LmGuTordqBq

View stream images only:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6vxRIHmONrgpJNIfjgqygw?feat=directlink

Isolating your notifications by class:
2011072104 | motdakasha

Update an existing post with / Linking to an image or album: https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/BhxWNW2Srvw

A different function of +1s:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/3jH4fqH3dXr

Circle bookmarks:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/PJzzvkPHyko

Choosing Circles the "Quick way"
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/RKP8VZVL92f

Making a virtual whiteboard for hangouts using Google Docs:
2011072103 | motdakasha

Moderating Comments: When people don't play by the rules.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/L1fsClHj3PpA177XhvRsCA?feat=directlink

G+ Extensions & Supplements:
Bill Handy How to search G+
https://plus.google.com/109642832456236686113/posts/TnwfbFEwjKz

Alex Carson Use HoverZoom instead of PhotoZoom.
https://plus.google.com/116126532050997853166/posts/2Hd6beSCCvk

Raphael Wildhaber Profile Panorama Splicing Generator:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/6Ggkp3oAz2y

Matt Ridings Using Posterous:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/PQtLVd1z9hA

Akshat Rathi On Geotagging:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/grCtk69qtjk

Bryan Foster Job searching:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/ALtTdLAZQ37

Bobbi Jo Woods Hangouts:
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Fak7KTiwqQM

Brian Caldwell Using Evernote with G+:
https://plus.google.com/111467508717854650986/posts/SbofdxmUayX
Be sure to uncheck the "Also email _ not yet using Google+" if you are sharing to any circles with real people not yet on G+ or else you will spam up their inbox and make them angry. I made this mistake when I added my FB & Twitter emails. Be courteous!

Chris Suspect RSS feeds
https://plus.google.com/114767803040499829479/posts/4ixTRF5xM63

Daniela Skrzypczak _Instagram
Apps_ https://plus.google.com/109559796026318026317/posts/SzmAfN7m52J


G+ Getting Started:
Compendium of Guides
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZO_ZiW4-HVJa0xvF0Aa1zjN_89ewYY6Lg4RkRMcUFU/preview

Simon Laustsen, Format Cheat Sheet, (Available in multiple languages.)
https://plus.google.com/108443027359212340995/posts/KqbVqVaG4jv

Melody Lynn https://plus.google.com/114326903094745477264/posts/WESSreQcTVJ

Robert Pitt https://plus.google.com/110106586947414476573/posts/CttnzY16PDd

Saidur (Cy) Hossain, Guide, (Available in multiple languages.)
https://plus.google.com/114831291174925522786/posts/CoVGAath7TX

Paul Lindner, Importing Contacts
(Also, see the Reddit Directory for Importing Contacts)
https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749/posts/fccefoQNrSY

G+ Photographers Directories, Guides, Lists:
Exported G+ Photographer's Collections:
(Contains most or all of the below lists. Start here.) http://imig.com/togs/gplus.xml

Google Documents Spread of G+ Photographers:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aib5TdAOOX-UdGE2cmEyRlI3YllRdXlTRTUyRDd1b3c&hl=en_US#gid=0

Brian Krassenstein https://plus.google.com/116464344073545994074/posts/5THkPgBw85y

Alfie Goodrich, Advice http://japanorama.co.uk/2011/07/23/some-pearls-of-photographic-widsom-part-1/

Leanne Staples https://plus.google.com/105336425684208963598/posts/XXPgg9q7SWt

Jarek Klimek https://plus.google.com/111873853137122484021/posts/6V1sEX3v6tp

Daniela Skrzypczak https://plus.google.com/109559796026318026317/posts/T4q2HwRXqAm

Colby Brown, Guide https://plus.google.com/113455290791279442483/posts/8G9MHza7dpH

Scott Jarvie https://plus.google.com/100962871525684315897/posts/dNfeN1UQBNV via Scott: +David Snuckel

Michelle Hedstrom Sports https://plus.google.com/109123727761757726835/posts/BwtA2otzVZp

Robert Simpson https://plus.google.com/112416945907493718478/posts/VGeMDJxpbAM
http://www.spitballs.com/Blog/Entries/2011/7/16_Photographers_on_Google_Plus.html

Lisa Bettany https://plus.google.com/118418436905562612953/posts/YmsAbeyFaD1

Trey Ratcliff https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/GS6UrDHwJBx

Mike Wiacek https://plus.google.com/u/0/105551989431666449555/posts/YwzFKEw9CK7

Damien Franco https://plus.google.com/u/0/115530776534617554663/posts/64zaWvJYUzf

Nichole McCall https://plus.google.com/115059793966709655633/posts/hpgXdc17neJ

Directory of Redditors:
http://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/comments/ii0hu/google_official_redditors_list/c24gklq

Directory for Autism Awareness & Applied Behavior Analysis:
(These are new lists, please share the post to spread the word!)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116251472122668771452/posts/ZydwDL7K2k5

Directories of lists by multiple interests:
Daniel Treadwell http://group.as/ https://plus.google.com/103697821787469756035/
Alex Carson https://plus.google.com/116126532050997853166/posts/bgQLEY9r9RA

G+ Doodles:
How G+ Has Changed My Life
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/Fn8zwtvgfAz

When I joined G+ (7/21/11)
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/taepV0g8f-erGlkcOW2oHw?feat=directlink

My new life with G+me
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/7FtYFJvgEkP

It is like trying not to think of pink elephants
https://plus.google.com/116251472122668771452/posts/cGKu8mkKC6S

Carpal tunnel (7/21/11)
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Qec7BTvekkgmLBa9Hnbb8A?feat=directlink

In no particular order because, well, I'm kinda lazy, sorry! Not sorted alphabetically, but loosely chronological. loosely by priority/importance. Formatting suggestions welcome: Too much italicization? Add line spaces between links? What makes it easier to read? Please let me know of any errors or corrections I need to make. (I didn't use + mention for all the people listed above because it "breaks" the post somehow and I can no longer update.)
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DWJi5jaxivaMMff02ztRNA?feat=directlink

Oh wait, I am on the internet right now.


Oh wait, I am on the internet right now.

Jim Croce - Lovers Cross - BBC

Jim Croce - Lovers Cross - BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQJ6KQjDG0

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Wake Up

Wake Up

With the morning sun
lovers passion wakes the birds
such beautiful noise
by-Theo

Originally shared by Esther Gons


Originally shared by Esther Gons

my G+ cheatsheet, handy shortcuts to flip through pages and messages and some tips...

Friday, July 22, 2011

I'm outta here for a few days- I want to see bunches of neat stuff by Monday...

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Cool beans - nice job on The Orange Crusher... I would have commented but I'm trying to stay away from somebody else who did.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hi - I'll ask delicately --- How well do you know Amanda Johnson? I don't need details and don't want to offend you ever. I'll even take a "none of your beeswax" if you want....

Beb Sollee: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Beb Sollee: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf29sAchQAw
On this date in history Moses broke the 10 Commandments. I'm trying for seven...

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Who's ready to go be part of the first wave of the future? Oh, wait....

Who's ready to go be part of the first wave of the future? Oh, wait....
http://thegamershub.net/2011/07/anonymous-launch-their-own-social-networking-site/

Try it once - I dare you...

Try it once - I dare you...
http://www.thepublicstoryteller.com/fna/welcome_.html

When in Rome, I like to drive like the Romans.Well my fellow mixed up socialites and metaphor mixers, this is most definitely not Kansas. Life on the frontier is exciting, to be sure but scary too. All the old rules have changed and peeps don't know how to act here. They feel liberated and free. Free to be themselves. Free to define a new society.Free to break out their inner angles and just as free to be the butthead they only dreamed of in the old country...

When in Rome, I like to drive like the Romans.Well my fellow mixed up socialites and metaphor mixers, this is most definitely not Kansas. Life on the frontier is exciting, to be sure but scary too. All the old rules have changed and peeps don't know how to act here. They feel liberated and free. Free to be themselves. Free to define a new society.Free to break out their inner angles and just as free to be the butthead they only dreamed of in the old country...

So go ahead and blaze new trails. Discover and explore and invent. Be adventurous and daring and careful too. But don't take it too seriously. After all - It's only facebo....(screech) Oh, that's right. We can't use that excuse anymore....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zx4i_cNJmU

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Good night...

It's too early to go out...

It's too early to go out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBn2ux5vRHk

Originally shared by Carole Clift

Originally shared by Carole Clift

lol
http://www.happyplace.com/8975/21-google-plus-circles-you-can-actually-use
http://www.happyplace.com/8975/21-google-plus-circles-you-can-actually-use

Circles

Circles

Friends come and friends go
As I go round and round in circles

Love someone change your mind
Decide he was a swine
As you go round and round in circles

He who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know
And I go round in circles

Dislike someone and will not bend
Later they may become your best friend
As life it goes around in circles

He who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know
And I go round in circles

Soul takes on a body with each birth we make our date
With life and death along the road the soul reincarnates
The show goes round and round in circles

When loss and gain and up and down
Becomes the same, then we stop going in circles
Round and round in circles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyO0etKK6S0

http://www.examiner.com/feminism-and-relationships-in-west-palm-beach/toss-away-the-could-haves-and-should-haves-day-your-key-to-the-future

http://www.examiner.com/feminism-and-relationships-in-west-palm-beach/toss-away-the-could-haves-and-should-haves-day-your-key-to-the-future
http://www.examiner.com/feminism-and-relationships-in-west-palm-beach/toss-away-the-could-haves-and-should-haves-day-your-key-to-the-future

Originally shared by Xian Vox


Originally shared by Xian Vox

Friday, July 15, 2011

Circle Games - Tom Rush 1968

Circle Games - Tom Rush 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzXyoeKOcx4

Woot and stuff ! I'm immortal now - to match the immoral I already was---- go give me some thumbs up, por favor...

Woot and stuff ! I'm immortal now - to match the immoral I already was---- go give me some thumbs up, por favor...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=:-r#
Hey - You can PM someone by posting - just close the "share with" box and add the name (or names) - then all the comments back and forth are shared only with the peep or peeps in the box below the post...
Can you send a pm to someone by putting them only in the "share with box" below a post ?
this looks like it might be interesting