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AKA... How To Get Free and Legal Background Music for Your YouTube Projects AudioSwap ( http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_main ) - I tried YouTube's option on Buddha Electra (my nephew and I were having fun with one of his toys) and managed to find a free clip that fit the mood. The problem with AudioSwap is that you aren't in control of editting so you can't fit the music to the movie and also they warn: When you add a new soundtrack, the audio track on your video will be permanently replaced. Here is another blog post about AudioSwap and their video example of a rhino that must have been beautiful baby . Royalty Free Music.com offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download. I am particularly drawn to ... Free Music Clips from Royalty Free Music.com. By the way, they also have a page talking about Copyright Law and YouTube . R

Raindrops on roses... , originally uploaded by Aditi Kidambi . Max , originally uploaded by Tante Bluhme's . copper kettles , originally uploaded by 1vintage1 . woolen still life , originally uploaded by la fattina . brown paper packages tied up with string , originally uploaded by fluffymarmot . There are a few of my favorite things....

Looks like of good. This isn't exacly a recipe, but I think I could make my own version of a ramly burger. Here is where I read about ramly burgers and saw a link to YouTube. Wikipedia defines Ramly Burger

What happens to your computer when you don't shut down.... Have you ever noticed when you use your computer first thing in the morning, the icons appear to be in a different place than when you left? Have you sensed that something goes on if you leave your computer on overnight? Well, when you go to bed at night and forget to shut down your computer, I think you ought to know what actually goes on. For the first time, someone has "captured" what takes place after you leave the room.... http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm (I always knew that there were computer gremlins.)

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." ....AMEN TO THAT! Sand and Stone TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT. DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLA PPE D THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE. THE ONE WHO GOT SLA PPE D WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLA PPE D ME IN THE FACE. THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLA PPE D GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE ! AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM. AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE ". THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLA PPE D AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, "AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?" THE FRIEND REPLIED "WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY. BUT, WHEN

A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday. "I'd like to be six again", she replied, still looking in the mirror. On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms, and then took her to Six Flags theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was. Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake. Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favorite candy, M&M's. What a fabulous adventure! Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted. He leaned over his wife with a big smile

The MySpace Pics label is my method of organizing images on TinyPic so that I can use them when I'm using my account. You see, I am not a great fan of those image Web sites with massive amounts of advertising and pop-ups. So I started keeping track of my favorites (a year and a half ago). Note: The images and posts are liable to change, but the labels will remain. I do have some of my own images on my Web site . Theme Labels Fairy Pics Mermaid Pics Rose Pics Lil Pics (smilies) Color Labels (not specific to the tinypic images) apricot blue orange pink purple rainbow red yellow Style Labels (not specific to the tinypic images) glitter reflection

Don't you be yelling at me. Originally uploaded by Mareen Fischinger An anonymous conversation that I had at work. The debtor owed a few hundred dollars to some credit card company. I was on inbound and answered the phone to someone screaming at me. Me: How may I help you? Debtor: I'M NOT PAYING THIS BILL. SOMEONE CURSED AT ME. Me: Ma'm, could you please stop yelling. Debtor: I WAS TRYING TO BE REASONABLE, AND THEY YELLED AT ME Me: Today? Are you asking to speak with one of our supervisors? Debtor: NO, WHEN I FIRST GOT THIS @#$@#$ CREDIT CARD. Me (thinking): Five years ago? Wow. Talk about upset.

Notes to Netflix Originally uploaded by LauraFries.com I was reading Tanya's Netflix vs. Blockbuster post and started surfing to Web sites like Hacking Netflix.com and eventually found Post-Its that people have sent to Netflix on Flickr.com. Have you done this yet? Not the sticking Post-Its in the envelop, but the.... "Oops, I sent Monk in The Legend of Ron Burgundy envelop. Could you plese resent me Monk, I haven't seen it yet." Rather than correct that spelling, I'll just point to Cora Zane's Thursday Thirteen about being tired .

Thirteen Bumper Stickers I wanted to copy Jenna's thirteen things Google said "Annalee should" do. However, I could only find six things. Only six? I'm absolutely sure there are more than six things that I should do. So if I can't Google, then I guess I will have to giggle. Below are thirteen bumper stickers at AzureGreen that I'd buy if I wanted to cover my bumper. Do Not Meddle In The Affairs Of Dragons For You Are Crunchy and Good with Ketchup - This one I found hanging in a cublicle at work, and had to check out the Web site. Sex Is Like Air. It`s not Important Unless You Aren`t Getting Any Watch Out for the Idiot Behind Me I Do Whatever My Rice Crispies Tell Me To If going to church makes you a Christian, does going to the garage make you a car? - This site has all kinds of WICCA bumber stickers and other items. They describe their business as being "created to be a discipline and point of focus for magical work and spiritual growth." Last

I found a free download of the title song from Annie Humphrey's album The Heron Smiled at Rhythms of the Globe . I don't own a lot of Native American CDs because it is harder to find radio stations that play the music, and I like to fall in love with a song before I buy. Most of my CDs are from artists that I've known, or heard thanks to attending a POW WOW or some other function. Perhaps that is why this song is there on Rhythms of the Globe Web site, now? It is really lovely, and they know the song advertises itself. The lyrics in this song speak to me. Having grown up in a Native Alaskan family and close to those roots, I've always been drawn to animals and looking to them and to nature for insight. This song The Heron Smiled reminds me of animal speak and totems. I'm not sure if that is what the writer meant (I'm not sure that Annie Humphrey writes her own music), but it worked for me. Either way, Annie Humphrey has a lovely voice. Here is a review of the

This next post proves that some people have even more time on their hands than I do! I found these pages, but someone else created them! Don't Click It http://www.dontclick.it/ This is a Web site devoted to not clicking your mouse. I kid you not. Then there is... The One Billion Clicks Project http://www.1bclicks.com/ Their motto is "click it". Their Web site is devoted to getting people to click a useless button one billion times. It isn't even a very pretty button, is it? By the way, I found this old post on Networkworld that talked about them when they were a new web site and had only a few thousand clicks. Now the One Billion Clicks Project say that they've had just over 9.1 million clicks.

Romance on Schoolhouse Rock! Remember the songs of Grammar Rock? I sure do. Here is more information about the entire series of 1970's educational cartoons on Wikipedia . I don't recall the 30th Anniversary Edition of Schoolhouse Rock! being released by Disney a few years back. Even though the videos are on YouTube, this is one DVD I've added to my wish list.

AWE-STRUCK E-BOOKS IS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME http://www.awe-struck.net/asubmit/authsub.html Awe-Struck E-Books is open for for submissions for releases in 2009 in the following areas: > Regency Romance > Historical Romance > Paranormal Romance > S/F and New-Age Romance > Inspirational Romance > 'Out of the Box' Romance--something new and different! > Futuristic Romance > Time-Travel Romance

I'll tell you why they sent you a bill on a box. Because, they agreed to send you an itemized bill for your convenience when you signed the contract. Or, didn't you read it before you signed? Actually, many written contracts include that being billed isn't required prior to payment (and that is why Justine was able to post the AT&T Simplified Billing post). Companies only send bills to customers to expedite payment. But, they really don't care if the mail gets to you. They do not care if your postal worker is new and delivers your mail to the guy upstairs. Nor do they care if that guy fed your bill to his shredder. They want their money, and put it in the contract that you're responsible to pay them even if they don't tell you to pay them. (Well, most written contracts anyway.) The company I work for collects debt that AT&T sold to a debt purchaser after giving up and the first thing out of the mouths of 99 out of 100 old AT&T users is: “I don’t kno

Years ago I found this fellow on the Internet for adoption. I used to have him on my Web site, linking back to the creator's Web site. I was wandering around my old Web pages recently and the link didn't work. Light bulb comes on. Google! It occured to me that the owner may have just moved the site, so I opened Google and this is what I got... Of course, being an average surfer so I clicked faster than I read, and this is what I got... They're protecting me from nothing. The Web site is gone. As I recall, the creator was an active graphics user that people talked to. So I'd have to assume that someone else caused this malware problem and Geocities deleted her account. Still, it is nice to know that Google's bots are keeping an eye out for us. By the way... Last night I was chatting with a blogger I've been talking to for years and she mentioned that I post a lot of images. I know. This post is proof. But, I can't help myself. I used to have so many images on