I just love this picture that I took of my 7 month old brother. Its just perfect! Both of his hands are on either side of the keyboard and he is looking at the monitor. It makes it seem as he was about to type something into Microsoft word. It just goes to show you the geek in all of us from birth. Click on the image for a lager view!
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Why does it seem that Junk food/ food that isn't good for you seems to outnumber the healthy food? Its because were lazy people! Most singles out there don't really have the time to cook everyday, or they just don't gave a damn about their health. As you can see from the left picture, in my household we have more junk food as compared to the right picture, of healthy foods. We do eat home cooked meals but thats usually only for dinner, so that leaves most of the morning and afternoon to eat junk food. I prefer home cooked meals over any junk food. According to my friends I eat very unhealthy foods. What can I say, they taste good. You would think that with all the junk food that I eat that I would be fat, but I'm not. I guess that I"m "lucky" to have a fast metabolism. Being skinny doesn't automatically mean that you are healthy. You can still have a lot of problems such as high cholesterol. I'm young and my cholesterol level is just perfect but if I keep on with this diet of junk food I'm going to be a really unhealthy person when I grow up. So what can I do to be on my way towards a healthy diet? Well I have put together a list that I think will help me and others to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

1. Don't let yourself get hungry: when you get hungry you let yourself eat any type of food.
2. Choose water over any other drink
3. slowly try to get rid of, and buy less junk food
4. Look at the nutrition facts: the image below shows the nutritional facts for a toaster strudel. Its not healthy for you!

5. Workout: This is one of the most important factors to live a healthy life. Get off your lazy ass and work out for 30 minutes a day.

If we fallow these five rules, we will live longer than those who don't. That means that we will be able to see more gadgets in our lifetime than them, which is always a good thing.

As of today, Apple has introduced the Ipod touch in 32 GB model and the Iphone to 16 GB model.
[Apple]

Todays wallpapers were created by the talented Photoshop artist Uribaani. All the images that you see in this preview have a resolution of 1920 x 1200 . The wallpapers come in a verity colors such as blue, green, red, and yellow. Visit Urinaani's site to see more of his artwork.

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Wow this one barely made it as post- it of the day, with a couple of minutes remaining. Well todays tip is to think things trough and to not make rush decisions. One such decision might be about your education. Why do some teens drop out of school to work? I mean you have the rest of your life to work. You don't want to be stupid now do you? It is proven that we humans learn the most when we are young, so thats why going to school at a young age is very crucial. There might be some teenagers out there who say that they aren't smart enough or that they don't have enough money to go to collage. Thats not true if you really want to achieve and make something of yourself you have to work hard. Life wont come at you easy. The more obstacles you have to face the stronger it will make you. Even if you are dirt poor you can always succeed in this world. If you are truly a person who wants to be someone in this world than you will be smart enough to stay in school, and you will find a way to go to collage. There are many ways to get help for collage, such as loans and scholarships. But to get these you must be prepared to work hard.

I came across this giant magnifying glass at my local antique shop. Its surface was so shiny that I just had to buy it. The price was decent, around $20. Well I guess that it ended up being a total waste of money because I never ended up really using it. Its too big to be practical. Maybe I should give it to my grandma because as you can see from the video it blows up the image/object a lot, or maybe I should make another video showing how it can be used to start a fire! Ill take the second choose.

Here are some pictures that I took of the glass.




Here are a couple of images on how I made this video. These pictures show a stand that I made for the camera so that it would be hanging while looking down. I love hangers because you can pretty much make anything out of them.



Click on any of the images to super enlarge!

I bet you think your cool with your shiny, fancy, small and concealed bluetooth headset huh? Well your not! Because your only cool if you have a retro corded telephone attachment from the 1950's. This inconvenient earpiece plugs right into your cell phone headset jack. So the next time you get a call on the go, you dont have to worry! cause you have the Retro 1950's telephone attachment for your cell phone.

[Retro]

Todays wallpaper of the day has a Halo 3 Ark type of feeling. This amazing wallpaper is called 2nd Coming and it was created by rjsmith2007 at DeviantArt. Click on the picture to download a 1600 x 1000 image.

I shouldn't even have to say this, but I have a couple of friends out there who don't like to watch the Superbowl or sports in general. The superbowl isn't just about sitting in front of your television screen and watching guys tackling the hell out of each other. Its about getting with your friends and family and enjoying something that everyone loves. Also if you don't watch it or even read about it than you really wont have anything to talk about with your friends and co-workers tomorrow. Do yourself a favor and watch the game!

From the time they are put into the oven till the time they are done!

Today's wallpaper of the day comes in a verity of colors, ranging all the way from blue to red. It also comes in widescreen (1920 x 1200) and fullscreen (1280 x 1200). The wallpapers were created by the very talented artist Vathanx. I chose it to be the wallpaper of the day because it reminded me of the internet and how we are all connected across the world.
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Imagine waking up to this beautiful scene everyday. Looking down underneath you and feeling like your on top of the world. Thats what makes Machu Picchu such a great wonder of the world.

"Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 meters (7,970 ft) above sea level^[1]. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It was built around the year 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Forgotten for centuries, the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction. It was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. It is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September of 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Hiram Bingham had removed from Machu Picchu in the early 20th century. Currently, there are concerns about the impact of tourism on the site as it reached 400,000 visitors in 2003," (wikipedia).

[wikipedia]

Here a a couple of pictures that Mike S. took of his brand new LG Shine.
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If you are looking for something to spend your money on that will entertain you for a couple of minutes than you should pick up the USB Hamster wheel. This useless gadget will will probably take up space on your desk and eventually make you want to throw it against a wall. You simply connect the Hamster wheel to your computer and turn it on. Then, when you start typing, the wheel spins. Its simple! the faster you type, the faster the wheel turns making the Hamster want to roll right off your desk and onto the floor!. This truly is a useless gadget.
[Iwantoneofthose]

[flickr]

"COLUMBIA, S.C. - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.

"That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip!" George Costanza was admonished on the show after he dipped a chip twice at a wake. That's not too far off, said Clemson University professor Paul L. Dawson.

Last year the food microbiologist's undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater's mouth to the remaining dip sample.

"I was very surprised by the results," Dawson said in a telephone interview Thursday. "I thought there would be very minimal transfer. I didn't think we would be able to detect it."

The professor said the students' research didn't get into the risk behind such a bacteria transfer, but they got the idea.

"I like to say it's like kissing everybody at the party — if you're double dipping, you're putting some of your bacteria in that dip," Dawson said.

The results of the research are scheduled to be published in the journal Food Safety within the next six months, he said," (news.yahoo.com)

"LONDON (Reuters) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.

In "Lolita," a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-old stepdaughter -- but Woolworths staff had not heard of the classic novel or two subsequent films based on it.

Hence they saw nothing wrong with advertising the Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard intended for girls aged about six until a concerned mother raised the alarm on a parenting website.

"What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either," a spokesman told British newspapers.

"We had to look it up on (online encyclopedia) Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now."

Woolworths said the product had now been dropped.

"Now this has been brought to our attention, the product has been removed from sale with immediate effect," the chain said.

"We will be talking to the supplier with regard to how the branding came about,"(reuters).

[reuters]

Here is a list of "Design Marvels" that sawse.com has compiled.
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Most people when they go into a store they just go in and buy their product without doing any research about it first. You should not do this! First off you don't know if your product it going to be compatible with some of the tings that you may have.

The most important reason for doing research before you buy is so that you wont get ripped off. I remember looking for my surround system at BestBuy.com and it said that it was at a $60 discount. It did not say online only. So I go to the store thinking that I'm going to get a pretty good deal on the 5.1 surround sound speakers. So I ask one of the employees at my local BestBuy store to help me get my speakers. He did and he was very helpful but when I went to go and pay it, I saw that it didn't have the discount.So I ask what was going on, and why it had said that there was a discount on there website. They brought me to one of their in store computers to show me that there was no discount. But how could this be? Just a couple minutes ago at my house I had seen that there was a $60 discount and now on their in store computer it shows no discount. The guy was like are you sure it said $60 discount? I was getting pissed but good thing I had read an article online on how BestBuy's in store website is different than the one that me and you see at our homes. So I told the guy this and he didn't believe me, than I wipe out the web page that I had printed out at my house just a couple of minutes before. He was in shock. I guess that he was clueless about the whole thing, so he sent me to customer desk. I showed it to them and they tried to talk me out of it, but I told them that I wanted to speak with the manger. In the end they gave me the discount because I bet that he knew about the price changes, and I bet that he didn't want to have a lawsuit on his hands.

So the main point of this story is that dong your research on a product that your going to buy is a must because companies will try to rip you off.

"It's made of "non-toxic lightweight modelling clay, covered with nylon and polyurethane blend fabric", and can be shaped, Play-Doh style, to fit any hand. Once molded, it keeps its shape until you're ready to play again. The Moldable Mouse is still in the concept stage, but it has already won a Red Dot design award. If it makes it to production, it'll be good news for lefties, carpal-tunnelers and Gadget Lab editors alike."

[wired]

Nooo! Theres a baby coming out of my computer! [Optical Illusions]

Todays wallpaper of the day is actually many. These wallpapers were created by Petercui. I am a big fan of his work because I just love his abstract wallpapers. Each of the images that you see in this preview are 2560 X 1600. That means that it can fit screens up to 30 inches.
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Last night the three of us here at zixpk.com we playing some Halo 3. We were playing Team Slayer on snowbound. When the game ended the score was 51 to 31 (We Won :-) . But if you play halo you know that a normal game of Team Slayer is to 50. I guess the game glitched up when we were killing who ever we saw even after the game ended and somehow the score was not 50 but 51. If you would like to be our friends these are our Gamer tags.

Mike- Pucktoplay1
Hassan- FatDragon999
Ken- Zixpk

As you can see our very own Ken was MVP like always (what else is new?) and Hassan got a top medal as well.

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"Petra (from πέτρα "petra", rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site in southwestern Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor^[1] in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture.

explorer The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by SwissJohann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage."^[2] In 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site. It is one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" as determined by the New Open World Corporation (not affiliated with UNESCO)." (wikipedia)

Call of Duty 4 M.W.

Hey everybody its Hassan A. from zixpk.com I would just like to adivse anyone who is looking for a great shooter. Call of Duty 4 has some great features to it that I really enjoy. The campign is fairly short a good 5 to 6 hours. So i wouldn't advise anyone to get this game purely for single player. The reason why this game is so very popular right now is the genius MP aspect of the game. It goes by trdational USA army ranking. You gain xp through various ways, such as kills completing challenges such as a certain number of kills with a weapon to tacking down a helicopter. there are also unlockable weapons and perks which are nice powers or equipment I would say to do various things such as extra damage, listening in on enemy's, dropping a live grenade when you die and much more. After you hit the rank of 55 you are able to start from scratch as a level 1 but you will gain a prestige, you may do this up to 10 times. This game has a very balanced weapons and maps. Over all I would give this game a 9.5 out of 10 great job Activision, no wonder this game has gotten best seller award for 2007.

OK so its been some time now since Halo 3 has come out, so this is the perfect time to ask yourself this question, have you played Halo 3 as much as you did halo or Halo 2?

I for one haven't really played Halo 3 as much as I did with Halo 2. I think that the main reason was that on the original Xbox the only good game aside from Fable was Halo and Halo 2. I thought that Halo 2 was the best game ever because it was the first time that I had played a game like it. Before Halo 2 I had a PlayStation 2. I really didn't like it and when I heard people talking about how Halo 2 was about to come out I got interested in getting an Xbox. I'm glad that I did because I had some really good times in Halo 2. I guess that I played Halo 2 so much that Halo 3 doesn't quite excite me as much because it basically the same game.

Here is my gamertag if you dare challenge me.

I quite literally stumbled upon this while looking for a decent Halo 3 image to go with my next post (more about that in my next post).

This custom Halo 3 Elite has been airbrushed over the entirety of its casing and is being described as a 360 with 360 degrees of customization, quite catchy.

The artist used high grade automotive urethane and clear coat, which was also used on both controllers to give the matching design. To bad that the eBay bidding ended a long time ago because this case mod is just awesome.