[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ Brilliant Designs for Yummy Cupcakes!

 

 

Brilliant Designs for Yummy Cupcakes!

Who doesn't love cupcakes? They're incredibly delicious (when done right), and provide you with a perfect piece of cake made just for you! But the best thing are the levels of creativity one can get to when making them. The sky is the limit, and the designs you're about to see are not  only creative, but make use of extra food ingridients that just look delicious!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger ?

 

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

 

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

 

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

 

 

[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ Incredible 3D Latte Art Pops Out of the Cup

Incredible 3D Latte Art Pops Out of the Cup

Osaka-based artist Kazuki Yamamoto offers you to take a little sip some of his art along with your latte: his 3D coffee foam sculptures made the guy famous worldwide in no time. After we first featured Kazuki and his 3D latte art, the artist presented some new an even more impressive sculptures: the one that got the most buzz, however, is the amazing melting clock, inspired by Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory.  Kazuki's first audience were the visitors of the Cafe10g in Osaka, where he worked, but after the international recognition the artist says he dreams of opening his own cafe in Tokyo. Can't wait to see the menu!

 

 

 

 

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

 

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

 

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

 

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

 

 

[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ The Life and Awesomeness of Steve Jobs

 

 

 

The Life and Awesomeness of Steve Jobs

 

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Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs resigned today, saying he can "no longer meet his duties and expectations as CEO."

It goes without saying that our greatest wish for Steve right now is a quick recovery from whatever is ailing him.

To celebrate Steve's career, here's an oldie but goodie -- "The Life and Awesomeness of Steve Jobs" -- a photo biography -- in appreciation of a guy who has accomplished more in one lifetime than most people would in 20.

Steve's Childhood Home

Steve was born in 1955, was adopted, and as his official bio reads, "grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley."

Here's the house where Apple later began.

Steve Meets Steve

Jobs met Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who was four years ahead of him at Homestead High, and the two quickly became friends, sharing stories of pranks they'd pulled.

One elaborate prank -- flipping off a high school graduating class with a big, tie-dyed, middle finger salute-painted sheet, signed "SWAB JOB" -- never quite worked. "Steve got in trouble," Wozniak wrote in his bio, iWoz.

Portrait Of A Young Nerd

Jobs had an early appreciation for facial hair. This will become an on-again, off-again trend.

Jobs and Wozniak, 1975

Jobs attended after-school lectures at HP, where Wozniak worked, and got a summer job there.

But it wasn't until the mid-70s -- after Steve attended and dropped out of Reed College and traveled to India -- that he started attending Wozniak's "Homebrew Computer Club."

Apple's Early Days

To get Apple off the ground, Steve and Steve "sold their most valuable possessions."

Jobs "sold his Volkswagen micro-bus and Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, which raised $1,300 to start their new company."

Think

Note the "Think" sign behind Steve the hippie.

Later, Apple's slogan changed to Think Different. Steve "always had a different way of looking at things," his high school electronics teacher said.

The Moustache

Would you trust this guy to make your computer?

You should.

The Mac is Born

In 1984, Steve rolled out the Mac. It was the first personal computer driven by a graphical user interface. Now they all are.

Here's Apple's famous "1984" Super Bowl commercial.

NeXT

Steve got fired from Apple and started a new company called NeXT.

The hardware side was a bust, but the software would eventually become the basis for Apple's OS X -- which runs today's Macs, iPhones, and the iPod touch. (Apple bought NeXT in 1997.)

Peak Hair

At NeXT, Steve went with the hockey player look.

Steve and Laurene

Steve married Laurene Powell in 1991. The couple has three children.

Pixar's Toy Story

Steve's first hit of the 90s wasn't a computer, but a movie.

Jobs bought Pixar, an animation studio, from George Lucas in 1986.

In 1995, Toy Story started Pixar's streak of hits, grossing over $191 million in the U.S. and Canada during its initial box office release. Pixar's IPO added a cool billion to Steve's net worth.

Macworld '98

After Apple bought NeXT, Steve gradually got closer to Apple.

In early 1998, Steve Jobs had cultivated a woodsy look. Here he is at Macworld in January, where he announced that beat-up Apple made a $45 million profit the prior quarter.

The iMac: Hello (again)

Later that year, Steve unveiled the iMac, Apple's Internet-focused computer that -- controversially -- shipped with no floppy drive. (And was Apple's first computer to use USB.)

"It looks like it's from another planet," Steve said. "And a GOOD planet!"

Here's the video:

The Gulfstream

In 2000, Jobs got 10 million stock options and a Gulfstream V airplane "in recognition of his service to the company."

You can see photos of it around California at Airliners.net.

Photo: S.C. Rubke

iPod, Therefore i Am

The iPod was Jobs's biggest game-changer (so far) at Apple.

Not only did Steve dominate one industry -- portable music players -- but he helped totally shake up another -- the music business.

Steve and Bono

Steve isn't just friends and product partners with U2 frontman Bono.

He also sold him an apartment in the star-studded San Remo co-op building on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'

Perhaps Steve's most famous speech was his Stanford Commencement speech in 2005.

He talked about his life as a college dropout, his entrepreneurship, and his battle with cancer.

He ended with a quote from the last edition of The Whole Earth Catalog: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

Here's the video:

Paul Otellini's Bunny Suit

One of Steve's greatest coups: Getting Intel CEO Paul Otellini to walk out on stage at Macworld 2006 in an Intel "bunny suit."

That's when Steve announced that Apple was switching its product line over to Intel chips.

The iPhone, 2007

Steve's best product showmanship at Apple came in January, 2007, when he unveiled the iPhone.

Perhaps the best part is when he prank called a Starbucks while showing off the phone's Maps app. "I'd like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please. No, just kidding -- wrong number."

Here's a video (part one) of Steve unveiling the iPhone.

Steve's 2009 medical leave and return

Jobs took a medical leave in 2009, and received a liver transplant in Memphis. Last year, he spoke out in favor of a bill that could boost organ donation in his home state of California.

The iPad

In January, 2010, Jobs unveiled the iPad, an inexpensive tablet computer. It blew past peoples' wildest expectations, with almost 15 million sold last year.

Earlier this year, Jobs stepped down again for health reasons.

Dan Frommer, Business Insider

Dinner with President Obama

Flickr/White House

Last week, Jobs and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got to sit next to President Obama at dinner in Silicon Valley. Sweet!

Happy birthday, Steve. Feel better!

In one of his last acts as (non-acting) CEO, he presented some amazing plans for a new headquarters building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

 

Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite.

 

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

 

 

 

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.