Yosef's Top 5 Stumbles

After playing with Stumble Upon for a week or so, I found a handful of sites that I bookmarked and then actually revisited.

Bookmarking a site is easy, of course. The real test of its value is if you go back to it.

I thought you might be curious to know what my top five stumbled upon and then revisited sites are:

#1. The Institute of General Semantics, established in 1938 by Alfred Korzybski, is online at http://time-binding.org/about/13-common.htm That particular link will take you to an article I find fascinating, titled “13 Common Symptoms of Language Mis-Behaviors”. Here’s one of the 13 symptoms:

“We fail to differentiate facts (verifiable, historical observations/events) from inferences, assumptions, premises, beliefs, etc. ”

#2. What’s the meaning behind your name? Go to www.behindthename.com/ and find out. Type in “Joseph” and you’ll see:

“From the Latin Iosephus, which was from the Greek Ιωσηφος (Iosephos), which was from the Hebrew name יוֹסֵף(Yosef) meaning “he will add”. In the Old Testament Joseph is the eleventh son of Jacob. Because he was the favourite of his father, his older brothers sent him to Egypt and told their father that he had died. In Egypt, Joseph became an advisor to the pharaoh, and was eventually reconciled with his brothers when they came to Egypt during a famine. This is the name of two characters in the New Testament: Joseph the husband of Mary and Joseph of Arimathea. Also, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire have had this name.”

#3. I’m interested in psychology, but only of the practical sort. Go here www.spring.org.uk/2007/07/10-practical-uses-for-psychological.php and you’ll get some useful tips, such as: 

“If you want to convince others that your opinion is representative of the majority, then just repeat yourself. This surprising psychology study finds that if one person in a group repeats the same opinion three times, it has 90% of the effect of three different people in that group expressing the same opinion.”

#4. If you’re interested in attracting a new car but want a more environmentally friendly one, consider http://puregreencars.com/ I keep going back to this one. It’s got info on virtually all the green super cars out there, from the sexy Tesla all-electric sports car to hybrids, biodiesel, natural gas, ethanol, and more.

Right now I’m trying to get Panoz to build a street legal hybrid GTLM for me. In 1999 Panoz installed a hybrid drive train in a Panoz Q9 GT hard top race car (I’ve even seen the car), so I know a street legal Panoz hybrid is possible. Besides, Francine wants a sister. Anyway, here’s one news item from the pure green cars site :

“Father and son engineers Joe and Jason Palumbo announced their plans to build a sleek high-performance Ferrari fighter that uses hybrid technology to deliver a fuel-efficient and user-friendly supercar called the Palumbo M-80.”

#5. Hitting Zero. I was surprised to stumble across this very blog while surfing with Stumble Upon. Obviously, I come back to this blog often (to post or review comments), and bookmarked it, so it stays on my top 5 list.

Where are your top 5 newly discovered sites?

Ao Akua,

Joe
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PS – A lot of gadget, cigar, book, marketing, writing, magic, health, fitness, martial arts, spirituality and guitar sites show up when I use Stumble Upon, as those are also interests of mine, but I haven’t yet found anything in those subject areas worth writing home (or to you) about. Stay tuned, though. I’m still looking.