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POPS7 Incredibly Speedy Ways to Read Web Pages Faster 6. How to avoid squinting so you can read faster Rather than reaching for your reading glasses or struggling to read small fonts on a webpage simply hold down CTRL and use your mouse scrollwheel in order to zoom in and out of a web page. This tip works for both IE and Firefox. 7. How to convert text to speech so you DON’T have to read faster OK, maybe you’ve just given up reading faster :) For those people in this category, you can always try out Text to Speech so you can turn catch up on your reading in your car, or on your iPod by turning text into a sound file. Here’s an excellent resource for this. * *6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp
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POPSBullies Love Him "It remains unclear why Billy became a target at age 12; schoolyard anthropology can be so nuanced. Maybe because he was so tall, or wore glasses then, or has a learning disability that affects his reading comprehension. Or maybe some kids were just bored. Or angry." Whatever. The truth of the matter is that everyone has the right to enjoy their lives without being harassed either emotionally or physically. One can say that it's just kids being kids, but I've seen my share of those kids "grow up" into cyber bullies. I, for one, don't get any perverse pleasure from tormenting others and those who do? Well, my patience grows thin very easily with jerks. "In ninth grade, a couple of the same boys started a Facebook page called “Every One That Hates Billy Wolfe.” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose:
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POPS15 Eyesight Myths Being a person that is colorblind and extremely poor vision, I found this article very interesting. I have heard most of these myths from my own family.
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POPSGlasses don't make you a nerd Or geek - There's more to it... There was another article a few months ago that studied myopia amongst Asian students, due to rates that are seen as high. It was suggested there that myopia, rather than being inherited, was a result of lack of exposure to light. Students with myopia didn't tend to get out as much. Science can have have trouble qualifying things that are a result of more than one reason. experiments that support or prove theories, are better if only one thing can change. They are missing the point. The reason geeks, and nerds don't 'socialize', or 'get enough light' isn't because they are unsociable, but perhaps because they 'travel' in a different social circle, which is cyber, and global, through the internet. Perhaps they can develop terminal screens that emit the wavelengths of solar radiation so chronic computer users avoid developing myopia.
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POPS Top 13 Lessons Learned From Comic Books # Never build a nuclear power plant anywhere near a genetics lab. # You can find out what your friends are thinking by reading the bubbles over their heads. # With great power come really impractical outfits.
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POPS Pot Head and I thought losing your reading glasses on the top of your head was funny. OOPS !!
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POPSOptical4Less - discount eyeglasses When my mother turned 45 she had to get reading glasses, and oh did she complain about it. My response was, "I've been wearing glasses since I was 7. NO SYMPATHY!" *sigh*
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POPS Favicon Porn Get your reading glasses out Grandpa, I've selected some of my favorites and now my eyes are bleeding.
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POPSWill Self "walks" to Touluse... Will self, inspired by this movie, decides to get from London to Toulouse and back only by walking and taking the trains. It's always interesting to try walking places when we would normally take a car. The juxtaposition against the rapid yet somehow antique transport by rail is very interesting. Sorry to clip from Times Select, which means if you want to click through to the link the New York TImes will probably want money, but I really enjoy Will Self's writing.
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