http://franksemails.com/pics/nail-art/

Da Vinci in nails.

Thanks to blogs4god

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/astonishing-baby-pandas-and-births/offbeat-news

My mother tells me that my toy bear as a small child was a panda, which might explain why I’ve always had a soft spot for them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7096162.stm

he prospect of England hiring a foreign coach used to be unthinkable, yet now none of the leading candidates for the vacant post are home-grown.

Jose Mourinho, Phil Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Fabio Capello and Northern Ireland’s Martin O’Neill are the favourites for Steve McClaren’s former job, with Stuart Pearce and Alan Shearer trailing behind them as the best-placed Englishmen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7107978.stm

The problem is with this idea (cap on foreign players within the Premiership) is that it’s the “English” premiership and therefore would make no difference to Worthington’s Northern Ireland team as they are effectively foreigners as far as the English Football Association is concerned. The other home nations all have their own associations & leagues and are for the most part entirely separate entities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7090300.stm

From the page: “Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.

Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests – as did their children.”

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/11/21/the_divine_madness_of_king_dav.html

The striking enigma of David Healy.

“How can we explain the Healy conundrum? Is it because he can play for only one manager? No, Northern Ireland have had three in his time? Is it because he is the Ian Paisley of football, a man who exists for Ulster alone. No, he is desperate to succeed at club level. Is it because it is harder to score in the Premier League than at international level? No, he has played most of his games outside the top flight. The simple answer is that there is no answer. David Healy, you are an international man of mystery, a riddle wrapped in a Rubik’s cube, and for that we salute you.”

http://collective-thoughts.com/2007/11/22/gilded-crown-of-the-hypocritical-social-media-czar/

From the page: ” The sheer propensity of mainstream humans to congregate in targetable, virulent, and roaming electronic social packs has resulted in spawning a beautiful new breed of working class public relations heroes: ‘The Social Media Czars.’ ”

Marty has a bit of a rant.

http://www.45n5.com/permalink/how-one-line-of-code-can-destroy-your-online-busin.html

Mark from 45n5 has a spot of bother with his sites after a hacker compromised his Dreamhost server and loses all his Google traffic to those sites in an instant.

Mark’s (repeated) lesson – don’t rely just on Google’s traffic.

http://croni.stumbleupon.com/

Croni is the brains behind 103bees which is one of my favourite stats/analytics services.

http://flickr.com/photos/9147703@N03/2034624215/

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