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Level31 209.244.0.3 209.244.0.4
Google2 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
Comodo Secure DNS 8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20
OpenDNS Home3 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220
DNS Advantage 156.154.70.1 156.154.71.1
Norton ConnectSafe4 199.85.126.10 199.85.127.10
GreenTeamDNS5 81.218.119.11 209.88.198.133
SafeDNS6 195.46.39.39 195.46.39.40
OpenNIC7 216.87.84.211 23.90.4.6
Public-Root8 199.5.157.131 208.71.35.137
SmartViper 208.76.50.50 208.76.51.51
Dyn 216.146.35.35 216.146.36.36
censurfridns.dk9 89.233.43.71 89.104.194.142
Hurricane Electric10 74.82.42.42
puntCAT11 109.69.8.51

One day Buffett went up to his pilot named Steve and jokingly said to him that “the fact that you’re still working for me tells me I’m not doing my job.”

“You should be out going after more of your goals and dreams,” Buffett reportedly said.

To help him with that, Buffett asked Steve to list the 25 most important things he wanted to do in his life.

Then Buffett asked that he review each goal and choose the five most crucial ones.

After considering a moment, he drew circles around five fantastic goals, confirming with Buffett that yes, indeed, they were his highest priorities.

And the rest?

“What about these other 20 things on your list that you didn’t circle?” Buffett asked. “What is your plan for completing those?”

Steve knew just what to say.

“Well, the top five are my primary focus, but the other 20 come in at a close second,” the pilot said. “They are still important, so I’ll work on those intermittently as I see fit as I’m getting through my top five. They are not as urgent, but I still plan to give them dedicated effort.”

Buffett suddenly turned serious.

“You’ve got it wrong, Steve,” he said. “Everything you didn’t circle just became your ‘avoid at all cost list.’ No matter what, these things get no attention from you until you’ve succeeded with your top five.”

If you split up your time and energy among many things, you won’t be great at any of them. To be great, you need to narrow down as much as possible, cutting off time and energy spent on areas that don’t make the cut.

via: http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-productivity-trick-2014-9

Turnout on Election Day was only 36.6 percent in 2014, according to Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. If we made Election Day a holiday, it would be easier for people to vote.

In America, we should be celebrating our democracy and doing everything possible to make it easier for people to participate in the political process. Election Day should be a national holiday so that everyone has the time and opportunity to vote.

We should not be satisfied with a “democracy” in which more than 60 percent of our people don’t vote and some 80 percent of young people and low-income Americans fail to vote. We can and must do better than that. While we must also focus on campaign finance reform and public funding of elections, establishing an Election Day holiday would be an important step forward.

Make Election Day a National Holiday

I began asking my friends and family to tell me their passwords. I had come to believe that these tiny personalized codes get a bum rap. Yes, I understand why passwords are universally despised: the strains they put on our memory, the endless demand to update them, their sheer number. I hate them, too. But there is more to passwords than their annoyance. In our authorship of them, in the fact that we construct them so that we (and only we) will remember them, they take on secret lives. Many of our passwords are suffused with pathos, mischief, sometimes even poetry. Often they have rich back stories. A motivational mantra, a swipe at the boss, a hidden shrine to a lost love, an inside joke with ourselves, a defining emotional scar – these keepsake passwords, as I came to call them, are like tchotchkes of our inner lives. They derive from anything: Scripture, horoscopes, nicknames, lyrics, book passages. Like a tattoo on a private part of the body, they tend to be intimate, compact and expressive.

via: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html?_r=0

A new study suggests that looking down at a cell phone is the equivalent of placing a 60-pound weight on one’s neck.

via: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/what-texting-does-to-the-spine/382890/