WD-40 Here are some of the uses:
- Protects silver from tarnishing.
- Removes road tar and grime from cars.
- Cleans and lubricates guitar strings.
- Gives floors that ‘just-waxed’ sheen without making it slippery.
- Keeps flies off cows.
- Restores and cleans chalkboards.
- Removes lipstick stains.
- Loosens stubborn zippers.
- Untangles jewelary chains.
- Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.
- Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.
- Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pots from oxidizing.
- Removes tomato stains from clothing.
- Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.
- Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.
- Keeps scissors working smoothly.
- Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes
- It removes black scuff marks from the kitchen floor! Use WD-40 for those nasty tar and scuff marks on flooring. It doesn’t seem to harm the finish and you won’t have to scrub nearly as hard to get them off. Just remember to open some windows if you have a lot of marks.
- Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car if not removed quickly! Use WD-40!
- Gives a children’s play gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.
- Lubricates gear shift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on riding mowers.
- Rids kids rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises.
- Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open.
- Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.
- Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.
- Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.
- Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans.
- Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy hand ling.
- Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.
- Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.
- Removes splattered grease on stove.
- Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging.
- Lubricates prosthetic limbs.
- Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).
- Removes all traces of duct tape.
- Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain.
- Florida’s favorite use is: “cleans and removes love bugs from grills and bumpers.”
- The favorite use in the state of New York WD-40 protects the Statue of Liberty from the elements.
- WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a LITTLE on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it’s a lot cheaper than the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing are not allowed in some states.
- Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch.
- WD-40 is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag.
- Also, if you’ve discovered that your teenage daughter has washed and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the lipstick spots with WD-40 and re-wash. Presto! Lipstick is gone!
- If you sprayed WD-40 on the distributor cap, it would displace the moisture and allow the car to start.
Thanks for the correction Frank 
Fish oil myth
There is a popular urban legend that the main ingredient in WD-40 is fish oil. Although it is unknown whether the formula contains fish oil, material safety data sheets for the product show that the main ingredient is Stoddard solvent, not fish oil.[4]
WD-40, is however used by some sea fishermen as an added scent when fishing with bait.
Formulation
Main ingredients, from the material safety sheet are:
* 50% Stoddard solvent (mineral spirits, also commonly known as dry cleaning solvent)
* 25% Liquified petroleum gas (presumably as a propellant, carbon dioxide is used now to reduce considerable flammability)
* 15+% Mineral oil (light lubricating oil)
* 10-% Inert ingredients
The German version of the mandatory EU safety sheet lists the following safety relevant ingredients:
* 60% - 80% Heavy Naphtha (petroleum product), hydrogen treated
* 1% - 5% Carbon dioxide
It further lists flammability and effects to the human skin when repeatedly exposed to WD-40 as risks when using WD-40. Nitrile gloves and safety glasses should be used. Water is unsuitable for extinguishing burning WD-40.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40
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I think the accuracy is a little suspect (possibly due to having to chose New York as closest server), the upload speed on dial-up is impossible ;D
Gee David your upload speed is better than mine and I’m on cable… ;D
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Yes, great for dial-up, if only I could reverse it 565kbps Download, 41kbps upload ;D
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RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.
Watch it in Action: http://one.revver.com/watch/160224/affiliate/65364
Features:
Minimize windows to the dock
Real-time window previews in Vista
Running application indicators
Simple drag-n-drop interface
Multi-monitor support
Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
Icons zoom and transition smoothly
Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
Positioning and layering options
Fully customizable
Completely Portable
ObjectDock Docklet support
Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y’z Dock skins
Runs great on slower computers
Unicode compliant
Supports many languages and can easily be translated
A friendly user base
And best of all… its FREE
http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
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i’m on a long vacation ;D
Stress Test…
Good luck with this stress test !! 
STRESS
I am not sure exactly how it works, but this is amazingly accurate. Read the full description before looking at the picture. The picture below has 2 identical dolphins in it. It was used in a case study on stress levels at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study revealed that, in spite of the fact that the dolphins are identical, a person under stress would find differences in the two dolphins.
The more differences a person finds between the dolphins, the more stress that person is experiencing. Look at the photograph and if you find more than one or two differences you may want to take a vacation.
Click on the jpg. below to see the “two” dolphins larger :
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don’t see the cow above anymore ::)-see a pig now :o-time to go on another vacation or get help ;D :
Online Alarm Clock
http://avnoy.com/alarm/flash.swf
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/ShellFTP/SimpleCenter.gif
SimpleCenter 4.1
http://www.simplecenter.com/
One application for all your digital media and devices! Easily sync and transfer music, pictures, movies, and podcasts from your PC to your devices.
Expanded support for the most popular digital media devices:
iPod, Sony PSP, Xbox 360, Nokia N80, N93, USB mass storage devices, and PlaysForSure
devices.
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How to remove a cork from inside a wine bottle without breaking the bottle. Cool!
http://www.isnichwahr.de/redirect23792.html
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Starbucks Coffee Break March 15th
Thursday, March 15th, plan on stopping by your local Starbucks between 10am and 12 noon. During that time, Starbucks will be holding is 2nd annual Coffee Break. All company-operated and licensed Starbucks stores in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Greater China will be giving away free Tall (12-ounce) cups of coffee to anyone who drops by. Starbucks Coffee Masters clad in black aprons will be present during each of the coffee breaks to kick off the company’s spring brewing sale and to answer any questions you might have about the coffee or coffee brewing. Last year, many stores used the coffee break period to sample some of their pastries out to customers waiting in line, as well.
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/03/05/starbucks-coffee-break-march-15th/
++IT’S FREE++ :o
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Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/06/1217244&from=rss
Commodore’s big beige glory days may be long past, but the familiar name is still out there kicking (such as it is), lending its considerable cachet to an array of otherwise unremarkable devices. Now the company appears to have decided to bring things back a little closer to its roots, prepping a new line of Commodore-branded PCs aimed at gamers, pitting them against the well-established likes of Alienware and VoodooPC. Unfortunately, there’s been no other details whatsoever announced, with Commodore Gaming CEO Bala Keilman only going so far as to say that the PCs will deliver “what gamers need and want.” It looks like we won’t have to wait too long for the complete rundown, however, with the company promising to reveal everything (including playable systems) at CeBIT on March 15th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeBIT
Hi bob3160,
Opera browser finally has come up with a portable version called Opera for U3:
http://www.opera-usb.com/operausbas.htm
Just for the searchers among us for which Opera is their browser of choice,
polonus
“Gizmo’s top picks of the best
tech resources and utilities”
Free Edition Issue143, 15th March, 2007
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now this is interesting :
http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/tree.html
map of the system of human knowledge…
We all know that ZoneAlarm still hasn’t issued a Vista compatible Firewall.
They have however managed to put together a Sweepstake:
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/promotions/sweepstakes/index.jsp?campaign_id&AID=10419053&PID=1216905
Wonder which is more important?
(Check to bottom box to only enter the contest)
ELIGIBILITY & LIMITATIONS
Participants must be legal U.S. residents at least 18-years old. Only one (1) prize per household.
Employees, officers, and directors of Company, their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion,
and fulfillment agencies, their immediate family members and persons living in their same household,
are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
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Televirtual MediaLab, a pioneer of the use of virtual presenters and newscasters, has teamed up with Archant Norfolk, weather bureau WeatherQuest and PA Sport in London to create Newsfast - so called because it purports to be the fastest-ever way to deliver the latest information to people.
They unleashed Brian, a computer-generated newscaster, on the world. Unlike conventional broadcast newsmen, Brian, which stands for ‘Believable RSS Interactive Avatar Newscaster,’ can access the latest breaking news, and his clients/customers do not have to wait for scheduled news, weather and sport bulletins.
http://www.newsfastuk.info/
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++14 Things That It Took Over 50 Years To Learn++
- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
- If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
- There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Never lick a steak knife.
- The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
- You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
- You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
- There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
- A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
- Your friends love you anyway.
Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic
