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UPDATE: Unfortunately TubeTaught is not moving forward at this time. The team at Setink was working with the YouTube video syndication platform that Google had in development but has now decided to shelve.

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Setink, Inc announced today that they have launched TubeTaught.com, a new “how-to” and video learning website where users can view free how-to videos on a wide variety of subjects and interests. From how to play piano, tips for applying eye makeup, to how to cook the perfect T-bone steak users have an easy source to find the how-to videos that match their interests.

Although the site is just in soft launch right now with only a modest number of lesson channels, a spokesperson for TubeTaught.com said that new lesson channels will be released weekly to meet the on-going needs fueled by users demand for how-to videos in a large variety of subjects.

http://www.tubetaught.com

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On Monday it was announced that a 10-story asteroid barely missed the Earth by about 48,800 miles. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? But consider for a moment that 48,800 is roughly about twice the distance of the telecommunications satellites that mankind has put into space. Or to put it another more shocking way, only 1/5 the distance to the moon.

Talk about dodging a bullet… a really, really BIG bullet.

Kind of scary how close that was. Some are calling it a cosmic near-miss. Thankfully NASA has the Near-Earth Object Program that identifies such threats in plenty of time for us to decide on an appropriate course of action. What’s that you say? News agencies are reporting that “Astronomers say they didn’t see it coming until Saturday.”

They didn’t see it until Saturday? Wholly crap and hug the wife and kids.

In less than 72 hours from the time of reported discovery it passed by at about 12 miles a second. Not much time to get the affairs all in order is it? No, it isn’t. But it is a great reminder to live life to the fullest and make every moment count.

Now… go hug the family and tell someone you love them.

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Has Google Maps located the lost city of Atlantis off the northern coast of Africa? A series of under-water grids has been discovered that leads many to believe that it has. After all, the underwater grid-lines certainly appear to indicate the possibility of ruins. So much so that one aeronautical engineer said that it looks like an “aerial map” of a city.

Is Atlantis off the coast of Africa?

The location itself is even near to where Plato described it. So could it really be the fabled lost city?

Not according to a Google spokeman who says that “what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (sea floor) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.”

Sonar artifacts? Leads one to question why there are not more of these grids across the rest of Google Maps. Has Patrick Duffy been question about this? He should be able to tell us if this is Atlantis or not.

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