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Awesome infographic connects the dots of Steve Jobs’ life. Jobs' life gets graphical.  Photo: Visualistan Steve Jobs’ life has been immortalized in the form of numerous biographies, three movies, multiple documentaries, several operas, and a handful of graphic novels — but now it’s been turned into an infographic, too. Created by the folks at Visualistan, this neat creation takes you through Steve’s most significant moments in one easy-to-read pictogram, based on the same Walter Isaacson biography that forms the basis for the forthcoming  Steve Jobs  movie. Check it out: All in all, I think it’s pretty darn swanky — even if I would have liked to have seen a bit more focus on Steve’s product launches during his life. Given that Tim Cook has been running Apple for more than four years now, it would also be great to see a few celebrations of Cook’s life — something that we, as Apple fans, know altogether less about. What do you think infographic makers? Up to the c...

Clocks and old watches are miracles. If you’ve ever taken one apart and had a look at the intricate gears with their jutting teeth reaching out with  just the right math  to tick in rhythm with the pulse of the universe, you’ll see that whatever mind conjured the thing and all its parts is mad. Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and orderly thinking, forcing exactitude on little bits of metal that never asked for it. And then finally getting it right–so many decisions and matters of design suddenly set the clock off ticking forever. Get inside the mind of a clock-maker—one who still experiments with matters of design, improving their craft with minor revisions of planning and execution—and suddenly you’re seeing from ground zero how things  come to be,  first in a humble glow, then a blinding white starlight that bleaches everything. There’s a lesson here. But first, some background on bad...

Weatherman Perfectly Pronounces 58-Letter Village Name, Takes Internet By Storm Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village in Wales. https://youtu.be/CEgtBezjXMw There's probably no word too hard for this guy to pronounce. Liam Dutton, a weatherman for British TV station Channel 4 News casually nailed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogo gogoch -- the name of a Welsh village, during a recent report . (No, that's not a typo. This place actually exists.) His spot-on pronunciation of the village name, which actually translates to " Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave," was shared in a video which was posted to Facebook  on Tuesday. The clip quickly went viral with more than 1.7 million views and 18,200 shares. But is anyone surprised in its popularity?  The man's basically achieved the impossible. ...

The 7 Best Places To Live Rich Without Much Money (So You Can Bring Your Dreams To Life) 1. Alicante, Spain   Alicante is a city that has mastered the art of frugal living. They’ve done it without sacrificing any beauty or quality of living. It’s a beach city on Spain’s Costa Blanca and is famous for its wonderful climate, great food, stellar entertainment, relaxing lifestyle and lack of significant tourism. It’s a place that won’t disappoint. Renting a one bedroom apartment in the city’s center runs you about $550 a month. Public transit is around $40 a month. A good bottle of wine is $5 and a good domestic beer is a dollar. Spain’s minimum wage is $5.82 an hour. . 2. Mendoza, Argentina Right smack in the heart of Argentina’s wine country is the beautiful city of Mendoza. The local economy is strong and there is much demand for fresh, new businesses. If you’re looking to start a business, Mendoza is the place to do it. A one bedroom apartment in the city’s center runs you about $3...

When you’re in a relationship with someone, you don’t expect them to stop caring about all of your flaws, but you do expect them to be a bit more understanding and supportive – because at the end of the day if they love you enough to be with you, they should be willing to put up with the fact that you aren’t perfect. But unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. Take Nadina Knight, she was dumped by her boyfriend for being overweight. They had been together for several years, and had known each other since they were 17, but it seems that ‘Tim’ couldn’t take being with a slightly larger girl. It turns out that lots of Tim’s friends had been making fun of him for being with Nadina, because she was overweight. In an interview with the Sun, she describes how they used to call him a “chubby-chaser” and used to make fun of him for being with Nadina. To make things worse, after Tim broke up with Nadina, he started going out with a very slim girl, maybe to make a point about things. Once all o...

There's a reason why most American students start with French or Spanish as a second language. These romance languages are somewhat similar to English and require (relatively) less time to learn than most. Using information from the Foreign Service Institute, this infographic from Voxy categorizes 23 languages by the level of difficulty.