Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:35:19 GMT

Exotic Lingerie

Most women have a fascination for exotic lingerie. After all, it is one of the best ways to feel gorgeous, desirable and sexy, and definitely the best way to add spice to your nightlife. Whether you want to boost your self confidence by feeling good and thereby looking good, or whether you want to ignite the imagination of your lover, sexy lingerie can do it all for you.

Exotic Lingerie: Range of Selection
A wide range of high quality, hot and exotic lingerie are available online. Depending on the kind of fun you have in mind, you can select your lingerie from online stores:

• Baby doll: Primarily sheer lingerie made of satin, mesh, and lace.
• Bra Sets: Two-piece outfits made of materials such as satin and Lycra. Some are adorned with ruffles to add to sexy, extra-feminine look.
• Bustiers: The entire bustier collection is embroidered or gorgeously adorned with nets and ruffles. All of them include matching g-strings.
• Camisoles: Available in satin, mesh and charmeuse materials, in trendy animal prints or simple and cute polka-dots.
• Gowns: Sheer gowns and bodice with satin fronts and lace trim make up this intimate look.
• Short sets: Short halter tops or string bras matched with shorts of the same color and material. Lycra is the most common material used.
• Skirt sets: Lycra mini skirts teamed with halter tops of the same fabric come together naturally for sexy and playful look.
• Rompers: This one-piece garment is made of Lycra is available in black, white, red, pink and chartreuse color.
• Teddies: This bodysuit-like lingerie is strapless with an adjustable back closure and is available in Lycra.

Exotic Lingerie: Care and Maintenance Exotic lingerie cannot be treated as regular wear such as jeans or shirts. Babydolls and camisoles cannot simply be thrown into a washing machine. This would damage the fabric. By following these simple guidelines, you can increase the longevity of your lingerie:

• Make sure you follow the instructions mentioned on the tag. The tag will mention whether the fabric requires a hand wash, machine wash or dry cleaning.
• Dry cleaning is the safest option. However, you if you are not comfortable with giving your lingerie to a specialist shop, you can use products that imitate the dry cleaning process at home.
• Always wash your lingerie in cold water.
• Never use bleach.
• Make sure that you do not wash dark-colored clothes with the light-colored ones.

Some of the best quality, provocative lingerie line is available at www.sexywearavenue.com. Posted by: Heather      Read more     Source

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:40 GMT

A Short Visual History of Videogames

Kyle Downes present is animated video – This was my final project for my BA(Animation & Interactive Media) course at RMIT, I worked on it over a period of 3 to 4 months during our final semester at uni. It provides a short comical overview of the history of the video game industry. My goal for this piece was to push my abilities to create photorealistic visuals of simple object. Most shots consist of a simple lighting scheme involving directional lights and area lights for diffused reflections, rendered in layers including a beauty pass, an occlusion pass overlayed and multiplied at varying opacities, geometry matte passes and depth passes. All consoles where modelled, textured and rendered in Maya 8.5, composited in After Effects 6.5, sound effects and editing was done in Premiere Pro. (via : ultra-awesome.com) Posted by: thesilvershark      Read more     Source

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:43:31 GMT

Watch the Big Game

At Sports On Bars you can find out which bars in New York City are going to be playing the game you want to see. No more will you have to go walking from bar to bar in search of the one that's playing what you want to see.

Create your own sports groups. Together you can all decide which game you're going to watch and which bar you should all meet at. Sports On Bars also has everything you need to socialize with other sports fans. There are forums to chat on, sports news, videos you can watch, and a way to find out what promotions New York City sports bars are offering. Posted by: Linda Roeder      Read more     Source

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:21:19 GMT

Team Up For New Fitness Game

Your Shape
, Ubisoft"s addition to the fitness genre hopes to surpass Wii Fit"s impressive sales numbers with more precise exercise movements, a little innovation, and a little help from funny woman Jenny McCarthy filling the spot of your in-game workout buddy. The Nintendo exclusive game features over 400 exercises including strength training, toning, and cardio. Unlike other fitness games, Your Shape is totally Wiimote free. So how does the game make sure your doing the exercise? Simple. Your Shape will be debuting the first ever camera for the Nintendo Wii.

The included camera will scans your body and detects your movements. After the initial scan, it projects your image onto the TV screen so you can watch your movements. As you exercise, the camera will be monitoring your motion to ensure you"re not phoning it in and have the correct form. If you"re slacking, or just not getting the movement down, Jenny will help you correct your form in real time. Posted by: Sarah      Read more     Source

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:08:24 GMT

Real Estate Investment

Real estate investment entails purchase, management, ownership, sale or rental of real estate for the purpose of making profit. In relation to other forms of investment, real estate provides limited liquidity. Also, it is capital intensive and is highly dependent on cash flow. These features should be properly understood by investors before venturing into this field.

Sources for Real Estate Investment
This form of investments in most countries is unorganized and is not as efficient as other instruments of investments. An efficient investor should be aware of the techniques of locating profitable properties. This requires substantial work including the knowledge of the prevalent prices and an awareness of competition.

Some sources for real estate investment include:

• Private sales
• Public auction
• Real estate agents
• Wholesalers
• Market listings

The Process of Real Estate Investment
Once you find the property worth investing, follow these steps

• Verify and investigate the status and condition of the property. This is called the completion of preliminary due diligence.
• Negotiate the sale terms and price with the seller of that property.
• Finally, complete the contract for sale.

Benefits of Real Estate Investment
Following are the benefits of investing in real estate:

• Cash Flow: This is the difference between the income and expense on your property. This could either be negative or negative. A positive cash flow would mean you secure a net gain in the property.
• Appreciation in the Value: This could be external and internal. An external appreciation relates to the economic conditions and land scarcity. Similarly, an internal appreciation would imply the improvement of your actual property which is controllable to a great extent.
• Leverage: In case of investing in real estate, you can borrow a percentage of the value of the property to buy it. This unique feature is called the leverage

Risks of Real Estate Investment
The main cause of real estate investment failure is the negative cash flow over a period of time. Such unsustainable cash flow often compels investors to resell the property at a loss.

Real estate investing involves high financial costs, technical knowledge and hard work. Venturing into this field without proper knowledge involves high cost. One place where you can get useful information on all aspects of investing in real estate is HomeVestors Realty Ltd (Canada). Here, you can register for free online classes on the techniques of real estate investing. Posted by: Heather      Read more     Source

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:45:41 GMT

The Red Shoes: Relaced and Restored

Even in this age of Blu-ray and appreciation for all things high-def, many take for granted how complicated but vital a great film restoration can be. Buzzed about at this year"s Cannes Film Festival as one of the most miraculous to date is the UCLA Film & Television Archive"s restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger"s 1948 masterpiece The Red Shoes, starring Moira Shearer as a gifted young ballerina forced to choose between her love for composer Marius Goring and a career as lead dancer and muse to ballet company impresario Anton Walbrook. In association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films, the restored 35mm print-which Film Foundation founder Martin Scorsese has praised as one of his all-time faves and the most extraordinary use of the three-strip Technicolor process-dazzled a packed house at the DGA Theater last night. (The Red Shoes screens at NYC"s Film Forum from November 6 - 19.)

Thelma Schoonmaker-Scorsese"s three-time Oscar winning editor, and widow of Michael Powell-introduced the screening with a test sample showing a practical comparison of what had been done to correct for mold damage, shrinkage and surging color. Suffice to say, no superlatives can do justice to what was easily the most impressively eye-popping revitalization these eyes have yet popped for. Following the screening was a swanky afterparty at nearby Nobu 57, where I had a chance to speak briefly with Mr. Scorsese, Ms. Schoonmaker, and filmmaker (and fellow guest) James Toback about the event: Posted by: ahillis      Read more     Source

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:31:34 GMT

Twitter Clones

TechCrunch recently published an interesting piece on the new Spanish language Twitter clone, Birddi. I hadn"t realized how many Twitter clones were out there....There have been many Twitter-clones that have emerged over the past few years. There"s been Koornk, and German clone Duduku. Yahoo rolled out its microblogging service, Yahoo Meme, a few months ago in Portuguese, then Spanish and finally in English a few weeks ago. It looks like there is another clone on the block-Birddi. Birddi is among the most obvious Twitter clone - right done to the light blue background color. Posted by: Nancy      Read more     Source

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:22:05 GMT

Sonos iPhone Music Player Ships

Sonos has confirmed initial shipments of its much-anticipated ZonePlayer S5 all-in-one wireless music system that can be controlled by the iPhone or iPod touch.

The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is a high-performance wireless music system with 5 speakers powered by 5 dedicated digital amplifiers. With 2 tweeters, 2 mid-range drivers and 1 subwoofer.

Music can be streamed wirelessly from either iTunes or the Internet directly. Other features of the S5 include auto-detection of connections for any iPod, CD player or TV.

The ZonePlayer S5 is going for $399 (with free shipping) directly from Sonos.

For more info, click here.
Posted by: Jeff      Read more     Source

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:47:52 GMT

A New PC for the Kitchen

The QOOQ (pronounced "cook"), is a kitchen computer that might be able to make cooking a pleasurable experience for those of us that are a little gun shy around the oven. QOOQ comes with video recipes as well as 500 preloaded dishes. And if that"s not enough, users can sign up for a monthly subscription and have new recipes and sent to device. The digital recipe box can get internet access using WiFi or Ethernet. There"s no web browser to speak of, but you can check the weather and update recipes as needed.

In addition to the recipes and videos, the QOOQ also serves as a meal planner and can help create a shopping list, so you don"t off track with the impulse buying when you hit the grocery store. And when you need a little entertainment, QOOQ doubles as a digital picture frame and receives internet radio stations.

The 10.2-inch touchscreen tablet PC has a glass screen that makes for easy clean up as a precaution against those unexpected splashes and spills. Unfortunately, QOOQ is currently a French exclusive, but if there are plans to bring the device stateside, I"m sure it will sell like hotcakes (pun totally intended) to the burgeoning foodie movement.

Via Coolest Gadgets Posted by: Sarah      Read more     Source

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:34:19 GMT

Interior Design 101

This is the piece that will set the tone of my office. So happy!

He has also become an impromptu mascot of sorts, which of course means that he needs a name. Any thoughts?

Yorick is a strong contender…

(Glitter skull bought in a random gift store in the East Village, though you could make your own easily [polystyrene skull + spray adhesive + glitter]; sequinned mouse ears from Disneyland.) Posted by: Gala      Read more     Source