Modified opera mini

If you want to browse for free on your cell phone, you can download a modified version of opera mini which uses special proxy IPs to let you surf without load. You should be careful about logging into personal services like email accounts, since you don’t know who is operating those proxies and what information they’re logging.

Strip HTTP protocol

Thanks for PhilippineInternets.com for this tip! By stripping off the HTTP protocol information (ie HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1), you can surf without load or after passing the 800mb per day limit. To do this, you’ll have to use a local proxy script which strips out the protocol information.

These blocks rely on the fact that your computer sends DNS requests through to openDNS and not any other DNS servers. So getting around or bypassing openDNS is a relatively simple task, especially if you have admin control of your computer.

You simply need to set your computer to use alternative DNS servers than those being assigned by the router (openDNS). You can use any public DNS server, such as Google Public DNS on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Alternatively you could route your traffic through a VPN or SSH Tunnel, or simply use a free online web proxy.

Of course you should be careful with your private information, such as passwords, when using a free web proxy since you don’t know what kind of logging could be going on by the site operator.

If your IT administrators were smart enough to redirect all outgoing traffic on port 53 to openDNS, you may be forced to use a DNS server which operates on a non-standard port such as 5353 or use a VPN.

Tom and Kate never travel without their “staff” which includes a gourmet chef, a vegetarian chef, a pastry chef, a bartender, the wine expert, medical experts and of course the bodyguards. I find it ludicrously extravagant and wonder if they do it out of the need to survive or the need to brag. Why would they bring all these strangers if they were going out to unwind in the first place?

This Aura usually means a person is an extremely well balanced individual, finding contentment in the small things about life as well as having the courage to take risks and become adventurous. He or she leads a healthy spiritual life, but at the same time lives life to the fullest and enjoys every minute of it. Pink people have bad sides and good sides, and they are perfectly capable of finding the right balance in such a way that they have fun without hurting anyone.

The red Aura color also means that the person is overdramatic and extremely short-tempered. He or she has the tendency to blow things out of proportion, making mountains out of molehills just to get a good “reward” from the resolution.

There are also special individuals, like catie, who are descendants of the Sun (sun-ruler) or Moon (moon-ruler) – they are usually fortunate in life, and blessed with a good character. I don’t know a lot about them, but there are people who do intensive research on the strength of the planets by sign, aspect and elevation. Other planets with powerful locations must also be taken into consideration, for example when Mars intersects with Capricorn, they conjunct the Mid-Heaven and thus becomes a prime candidate for rulership, especially if the other rulers are weakly placed. Try to go to an astrology expert that you may know so that you can ask help and be informed of your Ruling Planet. Who knows, it could help you win the lottery!

Scientists don’t really know what a planet is, or how to define it. They just know that in order to be called a planet, something has to (a) orbit around the sun and (b) have enough gravitational mass within its core so that it takes the shape of a sphere.
In the world of astrology, each planet symbolizes an aspect of a person’s character – for example, Mars represents passion and Jupiter stands for good fortune and wisdom. While NASA sees the orbiting around the sun as day and night, astrologists define them as positive and negative rulerships, their sides affecting the people rely on one of the eight planets to exhibit their core values.

Titanic holds the title of the movie with the most number of Academy Awards wons, though strangely enough Leo himself was not nominated. He had a couple of flop-films after the blockbuster, but he made another comeback in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and solidified his title as an A-list star (and his $20M per movie salary!).
Learning from his past mistakes, Leo expressed his decision to only do roles that are mentally and emotionally “challenging”, with profound characters and a meaningful plot.

His career kicked off when he played in a series of garage bands, including The Kids, which once opened for Iggy Pop.  He got married to Lori Anderson in 1983 in Florida, moved to Hollywood,  and got a divorce two years later.  Lori introduced Depp to Nicolas Cage, who introduced him to his agent. The rest is history. He got the role of his first movie Nightmare at Elm Street (1984) because the producer’s teenage daughter thought he was “dreamy”. After this movie was released, roles just kept coming his way and that’s when he realized he was born to be an actor, not the musician he dreamed.

She was also featured in several magazines and landed major roles in two movies: Never Been Kissed (1999) and Idle Hands (1999). However, her breakthrough role came when she was selected to play the lead role in the sci-fi TV series Dark Angel (2000). Since then, she has impressed audiences around the world with roles as a (hot!) dancing instructor in Honey, the sultry seductress in Sin City and the sexy superhero in Fantastic Four- among other films.
Today, she is a dedicated husband and mother, an actress, an activist, a charitable donor and a sex symbol in her own right.

When a gravitational disturbance, like a supernova explosion or a mass collision, occurs in the vast solar system, a cloud of gas collapses- and this end marks the beginning of star formations. As the gas particles come together, the cloud heats up. Conservation of momentum from the movement of all the particles in the cloud as well as the gravitational force around them causes the whole cloud to begin spinning. The formation of a star at the heart of the cloud heats up from the gravitational collapse of all the hydrogen and helium, and after a looong period of time, (try 100 million years),  temperatures and pressures at its center point become enough for nuclear fusion can take place. From this point on, the object becomes a star we see at night.

Take note that a star is made up of hydrogen and helium with extinguishing and creating forces. Once the hydrogen burns out, the helium will need to find something to burn- sometimes, they burn out (but that takes billions of years), but the bigger stars die more violently and their ends give rise to neutron stars and black holes.

After the core comes the largest region of the Moon, called the lunar mantle. It is about 50 kilometers below the moon’s surface, and just as rich with lunar minerals as the Earth’s mantle is with iron and sulfur. The outermost layer of the Moon, called the lunar crust, extends up to a depth of 50 kilometers as well. This layer is one that scientists know the most about and have actually analyzed samples brought back by astronomers. The lunar crust is made up of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum. There are also bits of other elements, such as titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium and hydrogen.

If the sun were as small as your average globe, then that question would be easier to answer with a demonstration. 74% of the burning ball is made of Hydrogen and 24% is made of Helium. The remaining 2% that make up this astrological body that gives us light and warmth is composed of nickel, magnesium, calcium, iron, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, carbon, neon, and chromium.

When the Universe was just starting out and the story of creation was just unfolding, the first called Hydrogen is believed to have interacted with Helium into forming an explosive body of extreme heat and brightness. So scientifically speaking, the sun is made up of elements left over from the Big Bang- elements that were formed from the birth and death of stars. Pretty amazing, huh?

If you turn on a black light bulb in a dark room, what you can see from the bulb is a faint purple glow that doesn’t really light up the room. What you can’t see is the ultraviolet light that the bulb is also producing. Our eyes can see visible light in a spectrum ranging from red through orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Above violet in the color spectrum is ultraviolet, which is unseen by the naked eye– this explains why black light, it’s counterpart, makes the “invisible” things glow.

This phenomenon affects the color of light from the sky, but the specific colors are determined by (a) the wavelength of the light and (b) the size of the particle. Meteorlogist Perry Anderson shares, “Because the sun is low on the horizon, sunlight passes through more air at sunset and sunrise than during the day, when the sun is higher in the sky. More atmosphere means more molecules to scatter the violet and blue light away from your eyes. If the path is long enough, all of the blue and violet light scatters out of your line of sight. The other colors continue on their way to your eyes. This is why sunsets are often yellow, orange, and red.”

My photographer educated me on the magic of proper lighting and emitters when taking pictures. Yellow light apparently aids in concealing skin conditions, in pretty much the same way make-up works. Hence, having your skin bathed in yellow light is like a way of blending your natural skin with the blemishes and giving the appearance of smooth, clear skin. Who needs photoshop when you have yellow light to help you out?

Army psychiatrists violently arrested suspected homosexuals from the armed forces and sent them to a place called Ward 22 in the Voortrekkerhoogte Military Hospital. Those who could not be “cured” with drugs and torture were forced to have a sex change. The results were radical, with more than half of the victims suffering from mental disorders such as suicidal tendencies and bipolarity.

The head of the study was Dr. Aubrey Levin and – good Lord! – he is now a Clinical Professor in the Forensic Division of the University of Calgary Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Strangely enough, he’s also a member with a good standing in the College of Practicing Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.

Human beings are said to have an average attention span of seven seconds in any given situation where they are required to listen. This means that when you’re talking to your best friend or parents and you’re the listener (for instance, your best friend is seeking advice, or your parents are giving you a lecture), your mind wanders off after seven seconds of listening to them. Clearly, listening is not like breathing or blinking – it’s something that has to be done consciously, and we should all train ourselves to have horse-vision that automatically ignores distractions!

Most of the participants in the experiment were students. They were taken to a lab and their faces were painted with black lines, in order to study the movements of their facial muscles. They were then exposed to a variety of stimuli designed to create a strong reaction. As each person reacted, they were photographed by Landis. The subjects were made to smell ammonia, to look at pornography, and to put their hands into a bucket of frogs. But the controversy around this study was the final part of the test.

Participants were shown a live rat and given instructions to behead it. While all the participants were repelled by the idea, fully one third did it. The situation was made worse by the fact that most of the students had no idea how to perform this operation in a humane manner and the animals were forced to experience great suffering. For the one third who refused to perform the decapitation, Landis would pick up the knife and cut the animals head off for them.

The consequences of the study were actually more important for their evidence that people are willing to do almost anything when asked in a situation like this. The study did not prove that humans have a common set of unique facial expressions.

Now, the experiment began. After Albert grew to like the rat and playing with it, Watson started to bang a hammer on a steel bar every time the baby would touch the rat. When the disturbing sound would ring out, Little Albert cried and manifested fear. After this was done several times, Albert began to associate the scary sound to the rat, who was initially a friend to him.

Watson performed more distressing actions to invoke fear in the baby, and eventually Little Albert started to become afraid of anything fluffy, white or both in general – he would produce a fearful response of crying. Watson proved that fear can be conditioned, but I believe there could have been a more humane way to do so. Little Albert was never reconditioned to get rid of this fear, and lived the rest of his life with that strange phobia.

Obviously, the monkeys grew so disturbed that some actually broke their arms in their wild attempts to escape. The monkeys who injected themselves with cocaine regularly suffered convulsions and some of them tore off their own fingers (possibly as a result of hallucinations brought by the drug). One monkey taking amphetamines tore all of the fur from his arm and abdomen, and in the case of cocaine and morphine combined, death would occur within 2 weeks.

The point of the experiment was simply to understand the effects of addiction and drug use; a point which, I think, most rational and ethical people would know did not require such horrendous treatment of animals.

Prisoners were put into a situation that purposely injected a sense of disorientation, degradation, and depersonalization. The guards were not given any specific directions and they were not trained on how to carry out their roles, they were simply told about their “part” in the experiment and acting it out was entirely left up to them. At first, the students were unsure of how to carry out their roles, but after a while they took the experiment seriously. During the second day of the experiment, there was a rebellion by the prisoners which caused the guards to respond severely. Things just got worse from there.

The guards became paranoid about the prisoners and in order to protect themselves, they implemented a system in order to control the prisoners – down to their bodily functions. Prisoners began to exhibit signs of emotional disturbances, intense depression, and forced helplessness. They used numbers to identify themselves instead of their actual named, and when asked how they planned to leave the prison, prisoners were confused – seemingly having forgotten that they were students who were simply participating in an experiment.

Zimbardo ended the experiment in just five short days because he realized just how real the prison had become to the subjects. Though the experiment was brief, the interpretation of the results are quite frightening – people can easily abuse power when it is given freely to them, and with unrestricted amounts.