The A to Z of interesting PAGE LiNKS on the World Wide Web
This page is a never ending work of discovering interesting Page Links that relate to AntonK.com, and is updated on an irregular basis…
ANiMALS:
Dog Alarm Clocks Are ActuallyThe Best Alarm Clocks (embeddable video) (YouTube video)
Facebook.com/AnimalCareNetworkAustralia
Facebook.com/..Pyrenees-Animal-Rescue-Wildlife-Shelter
National Dingo Day (Facebook) | Australian Birds Facebook Group
Taikuutta koirille – Magic for dogs ~ Do dogs react to magic? Watch as Finnish magician & mentalist Jose Ahonen vanished some dog treats under their noses. See how the 8 unsuspecting adorable dog participants responded. By the way, all the dogs got treats before and after the trick.
Why Are Sloths Slow? And Other Sloth Facts
Mishka, give me my toy!!! (YouTube video)
ART:
The Story of The WOMBAT MURAL in WARRNAMBOOL That Went Viral!!!
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently
Amazing Beach Art (by AndresAmadorArts.com)
Now Where Was I? A Sketchbook Memoir by Steven Reddy (StevenReddy.blogspot.com.au | Etsy.com/shop/StevenReddy)
The Coolest Tattoo Artists In The World
Belgrave Fire Brigade Art Show (CFA)
AUTiSM:
Math Genius Computes in the Blink of an Eye ~ DanielTammet.net
Autistic mute discovers he can sing
Take The AQ TEST: Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score was 16.4, and 80% of those diagnosed with autism or related disorder scored 32 or higher.
BODY:
BOOKS:
10 Inspiring Bookshops around the World
The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton
The Book Thief by Markus_Zusak (movie)
Now Where Was I? A Sketchbook Memoir by StevenReddy (StevenReddy.blogspot.com.au | Etsy.com/shop/StevenReddy)
TyTashiro.net/The-Science-of-Happily-Ever-After
9/11 and the Art of Happiness by Simon Kennedy: Booktopia.com.au | An Australian Story | Twitter.com/Simon_Kennedy
BUSiNESS:
The Best Management Books by Dane Stangler ~ For good advice, take a break from explicit leadership books and dive into something more unusual.
MASTERING THE MACHINE: How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund | YouTube video: How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio…
CARS:
Vehicle Registration Enquiry: Introduction: This free service allows you to confirm the registration status of a vehicle. This check is for cars, motorcycles, trucks, trailers and caravans recorded on the Victorian Vehicles Register and is not a national check. You will be provided with the following vehicle information.
Used car review Nissan X-Trail 2001-2003
CAMERAS & LENSES:
FujiFilm FinePix HS50EXR
FujiFilm FinePix HS50EXR: FUJINON 42x Optical Manual Zoom and Powerful Optical Image Stabilization | 16M EXR CMOS II High Image Quality and Fast autofocus, Quick Response | Full HD Movie 1080p/60fps | High Performance Shooting Function | Enhance Your Picture Taking Experience | Camera price ready to go from DWi $365 (freight included) plus extra Fujifilm NP-W126 Battery Replacement $23.30 each & extra Fujifilm NP-W126 Charger Replacement (Wall + Car Cord) $19.10 (prices Feb 2014)
Tamron.com.au/di-ii18-270 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Model B008 ~ The world’s lightest, smallest 15x zoom lens, with PZD (Piezo Drive) autofocus and VC image stabilisation ~ $399 @ DWiDigitalCcameras.com.au/astore/Tamron-AF-18-270mm-F35-63-Di-II-VC-PZD-Lenses
FiTNESS:
NAKED YOGA: Co-ed Naked Yoga Comes To New York | Coed Naked Yoga in NYC | Bold & Naked: co-ed, nude yoga hits NYC | I Did Naked Yoga with Strangers… & that Wasn’t the Scary Part | BoldNaked.com (official link)
FOOD:
Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, Consumer Booklet
The Powerful Benefits of Turmeric—aka Tumeric
HONEY: A Must Read For Those Who Eat it Regularly
Nine foods you should never eat again
GARDEN:
HAPPiNESS:
10 things we can learn from the happiest people in the world
9 Ways to Beat the Sunday Night Blues (Huffington Post) by Joyce Marter (psychoterapist, CEO of Urban Balance) ~ features a quote by Anton K. Kressnig
HEALTH:
Australia’s Healthy Weight Week: how losing kilos can help your mental health
45 Uses For Lemons That Will Blow Your Socks Off
Quitting Smoking Makes You Happier, Study Finds
Quitting smoking reduces stress, depression and anxiety
Grape Seed Extract Outperforms Chemo in Killing Advanced Cancer Cells
How Long to Nap for the Best Brain Benefits
Turmeric Superior to Chemical Mouthwash In Improving Oral Health
Our Year of No Sugar: One Family’s Grand Adventure
HOMES:
A 31 Year Old Was Sick Of Expensive Rent And High Costs. What He Did Took Guts… But Look Inside
This Guy Started With Nothing. What He Had Just 6 Weeks Later Made Me Ridiculously Jealous
iNTERNET:
How Jerry’s guide to the world wide web became Yahoo | History of Yahoo!
There’s an actual key that can turn off the internet
MAPS:
57 maps that will challenge what you thought you knew about the world
MELBOURNE:
A-Z story of Melbourne’s suburbs
MUSiC:
ABC MUSiC: shop.abc.net.au/products/music-to-relax-to-2 | shop.abc.net.au/products/music-energise-2 | shop.abc.net.au/products/music-to-sleep-by
Pharrell Williams – Happy (Despicable Me 2 – Lyric Video)…
Jessica Bassett (American idol) on Ellen…
Leanne Kingwell ~ Slingshot (Official Music Video)…
Amazing seven year old sings Gloomy Sunday/Billy Holiday: Angelina Jordan, Norske talenter on Norway’s Got Talent 2014 HD
Elektra and Miranda Kilbey from Say Lou Lou are the next big thing in dream pop ~ www.SayLouLou.com
A Beautiful Bohemian ~ Darren Jones was a talented young musician who was randomly murdered on a train in 2006.
Kylie Minogue – Sexercize (Official YouTube Video)
This Street Musician Was Tipped By A Girl. What Happened Next Blew The Whole City Away
PHOTOGRAPHY:
The 50 most PERFECTLY timed photos on the Internet. The last one made me laugh so hard!
WorldPressPhoto.org/Awards/2014
11 Reasons why you DON’T need a new camera!
Australian Story: David Rennie tames his demons with photography
How a photographer made over $15,000 on Instagram in one day
PSYCHOLOGY:
This Is Why You Can Never Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions (HuffingtonPost.com ~ 1st January 2014)
9 Ways to Beat the Sunday Night Blues by psychotherapist Joyce Marter, with quote by Anton K. Kressnig (HugffingtonPost.com ~ 2nd March 2014)
Non-Conformity & Creativity Now Listed As A Mental Illness By Psychiatrists
QUOTES:
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes (Forbes.com)
REAL ESTATE: FORE SALE:
Hoddles Creek: Gunyah – A Place of Shelter: This special and unique animal sanctuary is approx 10 acres and has a myriad of yards, paddocks and areas that an assortment of animals call home.
SCiENCE:
SOCiAL MEDiA:
7 Reasons Why I’m Deleting My Facebook Account
Why I’m Quitting Social Media for 30 Days (HuffingtonPost.com ~ 1st January 2014)
Just an everyday $50K-a-month teen
The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics
WhatTalking.com check out real time results of What Talking is going on Social Media Sites
Instagram Is The Fastest-Growing Social Site Globally, Mobile Devices Rule Over PCs For Access
SPACE:
Workshop.ChromeExperiments.com/Stars
A virtual tour of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) at the Kennedy Space Center during its last mission, STS-133. Its final destination is the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Arrival was planned for the 17th April 2012.
First image ever of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together
First Image of Cosmic Web Revealed by Deep-Space ‘Flashlight’
Cosmic ‘web’ seen for first time
Wikipedia.org/..Observable_Universe
TECHNOLOGY:
Nokia Lumia 1020 4G 41MegaPixel Camera Phone ($579 at Kogan March 2014) The revolutionary Nokia Lumia 1020 is a high-powered device that captures fantastically detailed imagery and stunning, sharp photographs with a sensor never seen before on a smartphone. Full High Definition recording, up to 6x lossless zoom and Vyclone. This phone also records in precise 1080p detail, even at 6x zoom, the Lumia 1020 can catch all the action in professional quality. The Windows Phone 8 App Vyclone is specialised for this high powered device. Vyclone allows you to create eye-popping media from the range of photos you capture.
TiME:
Meanderings in Space and Time : Time Keeps on Slipping…into the Future
TRAVEL:
33 Unbelievable Places To Visit Before You Die. I Can’t Believe These Actually Exist On Earth…
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Seeing Famous Places From Above Is Surreal. #29 Shocked Me.
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British man becomes first person to visit all 201 countries… WITHOUT using a plane
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wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hughes
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www.TheOdysseyExpedition.com Read more: DailyMail.co.uk/news/..Graham-Hughes-British-man-person-visit-201-countries-WITHOUT-using-plane
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PLACES TO GO: Antarctica | Belogradchik Rocks | Machu Picchu
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Maps They Didn’t Teach You In School
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The experiences of two naturism enthusiasts in France
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White Man Black Vision William Ricketts Sanctuary
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50 Amazing Finds on Google Earth
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Supersonic Plane Has All Window Seats
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MiSCELLANEOUS PAGE LiNKS:
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How Highly Successful People Find Motivation In Challenging Environments
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45 Ultimate Tips For Men. Number 40 Will Help You Go Far In Life
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Kind Over Matter: Basic goodness means little in Holywood… and everything in life by JoshRadnor (Quotes by Josh Radnor)
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What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough (YouTube video)
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1000 years of European borders change: time lapse map with years & events (YouTube video)
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Proof That We Are Really Insignificant…
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45 LIFE LESSONS, WRITTEN BY A 90 YEAR OLD: 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good | 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. | 3. Life is too short not to enjoy it. | 4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. | 5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need. | …see all 45
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GRAND DESiGNS: Channel4.com/..Grand-Designs | GrandDesignsLive.com | GrandDesignsMagazine.com | Lifestyle.com.au/TV/Grand-Designs-Australia | EPiSODES: The oak framed house Argyll, Scotland (Tony & Jo) images | Daily Motion video | YouTube video
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What did the world search for in 2013?.. Google.com/Trends/TopCharts
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Can you name the movie studio by logo?
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Andrew, Nicola Forrest commit to giving over $2.5 billion
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20 Practical Uses for Coca Cola – Proof That Coke Does Not Belong In The Human Body
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After Seeing These 9 Images, Anxiety and Panic Attack’s all Make Sense
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Are you smart enough to complete this DIY Rubik’s cube dresser?
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Massive Government-Led Australian Piracy Crackdown On The Way
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9 Simple Things Great Speakers Always Do
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33 Amazing Ideas That Will Make Your House Awesome
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Hilarious Wedding Cake Toppers That Will Make You Laugh
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7 More Kitchen Hacks for Kitchen Domination!
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Space Saving Ideas: Chic Loft Beds You Won’t Believe!
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The Unexpected Connection Between Being Shy As A Kid And Being A Good Leader
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This Study WIll Make You Think Twice About Who You Are Getting Into Bed With
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Rather Than Joking About Justin Bieber, Watch This Video ~ Instead, we suggest you watch this video from 2007 when The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson talked about why he was not going to joke about another young pop star’s much-publicized problems
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| Sexual Objectification: What It Is, Why It’s Damaging, And How We Change It
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| One Step Closer to Hover Boards: Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation (ThisisColossal.com ~ 1st January 2014) YouTube video: Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation (2013)
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| 7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life | We Live In Public – Official Trailer
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Putting mindfulness over matter
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What no one tells you about motherhood
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Scientists Have Finally Discover the Function of the Human Appendix
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How to make better porn: There’s an inconceivable amount of pornography sluicing through the cyberworld. It feels out of control and often not too admirable. But if pornography is something that can’t be stopped, could it perhaps be improved?.. read more at PhilosophersMail.com/..relationships-porn
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Holden ute on fire during peak hour on Central Coast Highway at Wamberal
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Swiss To Pay Basic Income 2,500 Francs Per Month To Every Adult
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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms (Vimeo.com/TheRSA)
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TED TALKS: Dry January: Giving Up Booze For A Month Does Have Benefits Spoken and Unspoken: TED speakers reflect on how words and methods of communication affect us, more than you might expect. | Success: TED speakers share ideas about what makes us successful. | Have You Changed Someone’s Life Without Realizing It?: Drew Dudley calls on us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives. | What Is Beauty?: Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict. TED speakers conjure up beauty both ancient and modern, and suggest reasons why humans are hardwired to crave and respond to beauty. | Giving It Away: Stories from TED speakers who are “giving it away” in new and surprising ways, and the things that happen in return. | Haves And Have-Nots: TED speakers share big ideas about inequality and ways we might achieve prosperity for all. | Identities: TED speakers describe their journeys to answer the question: who am I? | Why We Collaborate: TED speakers unravel ideas behind the mystery of mass collaborations that build a better world. | Everything Is Connected: In this hour, TED speakers explain how everything in nature is connected, and how we can restore its delicate balance. | Framing The Story: TED speakers explore the art of storytelling, and how good stories have the power to transform our perceptions of the world. | Predicting The Future: TED speakers make bold predictions about our future and what our future lives might look like. | The Next Greatest Generation?: TED speakers searching to define themselves and their generation. | Making Mistakes: Mistakes happen, and when they do, how do we deal with being wrong? TED speakers look at those darker moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on. | The Hackers: TED speakers dare to hack the brain, the climate, and the animal kingdom in hopes of creating a better world. | Peering Into Space: Gazing up at the night sky is simultaneously humbling and utterly thrilling. TED speakers who share an infectious sense of wonder and curiosity about our place in the universe and what lies beyond our skies. | Do We Need Humans?: We’ve been promised a future where robots will be our friends. But are we ready for how those innovations will change us as humans? TED speakers consider the promises and perils of our relationship with technology. | To The Edge: TED speakers share stories of going to the brink of human endurance and the edge of our world. | The Unquiet Mind: We’ve all had that moment where you might see or hear something and you wonder: am I going crazy? TED speakers share their experiences straddling that line between madness and sanity, and question if we’re all in the gray area between the two. | Unstoppable Learning: Why do we put so much effort in making kids think and act like us? TED speakers explore the different ways babies and children learn, from the womb, to the playground, to the web. | Memory Games: Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. In this hour, TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else’s. | Turning Points: Life can change radically in an instant. How do we reconcile the before and the after — our former selves with who we’ve become? TED speakers talk about how they have been shaped by profound turning points in their lives. | The future of cities? TED speakers discuss this topic. | NPR.org/The-creative-process? | NPR.org/Where-ideas-come-from? | NPR.org/Food-matters? | NPR.org/The-pursuit-of-happiness? | NPR.org/How-do-you-predict-the-future? | Youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector | THE FUTURE OF GPS, tracking you, your items & other people!!.. TED Video: Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS…
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How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known, Gorgeous Art