“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggonit, people like me”

“Accentuate the positive,” the 1944 song by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen cheerfully implored us. 

Plug “positive thinking” into Amazon.com, and you will find a never-ending supply of products designed to help us see life through rose-colored lenses.

In fact, however, positivity is not all it is cracked up to be. Although having an upbeat attitude undoubtedly has its benefits, gains such as better health and wealth from high spirits remain largely undemonstrated. What is more, research suggests that optimism can be detrimental under certain circumstances.

Beyoncé Live at Billboard Music Awards 2011

Run The World (Girls) 

Be sure to watch the performance after the testimonials about Beyoncé - at the 3:00 minute mark. It is an incredible combination of live performance and LED staging.

7 Ways to Cultivate Your Creativity - How to unlock your untapped ingenuity

People who are highly creative often have odd thoughts and behaviors—and vice versa.

Both creativity and eccentricity may be the result of genetic variations that increase cognitive disinhibition—the brain’s failure to filter out extraneous information.
When unfiltered information reaches conscious awareness in the brains of people who are highly intelligent and can process this information without being overwhelmed, it may lead to exceptional insights and sensations.



This slide show presents an interesting discussion of what it means to be creative.

3. Connect Brainset:

Here, you relax your focus so that you can see the connections between very different types of objects or concepts. This process of so-called divergent thinking helps you generate multiple solutions to a problem rather than just one. The more ideas you can come up with for a difficult conundrum, the more likely one of them will work. This brainset enables you to "think outside the box," and generate flashes of insight. Use it, for example, to solve the following problem: Connect all the dots in the array pictured above using four straight lines, and without lifting your pencil from the page.

New relations between the US and UK

Ok, so this obviously isn't a real pic, but it is certainly well done, funny, and even a bit HOT!

The Other Side of Spock

Leonard Nimoy proves that alternate universes really do exist ... in this Bruno Mars video.

The Lazy Song [Official Alternate Version]

Learn where modern Gay Pride started

When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

This documentary on PBS' American Experience beautifully outlines the history and the context that changed attitudes in America and many other parts of the world.

Watch the full episode. See more American Experience.

Korea's Got Talent too !

This unassuming young man's story will break your heart, until he starts to sing.

Secret Video captures Usama Bin Laden's last moments

This is the part of the story that you didn't see on Anderson Cooper! ;-)

Guide to the gravity-defying Donald Trump combover

Rather than invest any of his considerable fortune in a transplant or wig, Donald Trump, the 61-year-old property magnate, insists on using a series of elaborate measures to plaster strands of hair across his balding pate.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were going to cover the media frenzy over Donald Trump and Obama's birth certificate, and they did not disappoint.

What a waste ! ;-)

Darren Criss, the singing dreamboat from Glee, may seem a bit wet behind the ears, but he's not! He is a seasoned performer who just happens to look sexy a bit wet behind the ears and everywhere else!

CLICK HERE for more pictures of him!

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Blaine released Kurt’s hand and launched into Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” flirtily crooning it his way. For Kurt, the moment was a first glimpse at a future in which he could be himself and belong.

The next day, Glee’s version of “Teenage Dream” shot up the iTunes charts, becoming the most downloaded song yet from a show that had recently surpassed the Beatles’ record for the most singles to chart on Billboard’s Hot 100. And in a world teeming with undeserving reality TV insta-stars, Criss became a bona fide overnight sensation. 

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This is more than just a teenage dream, or even a gay one. As a top 10 show among men ages 18 to 49, Fox’s kooky jukebox musical has a fanbase that extends beyond the usual coalition of teenage girls and gay guys who tune in to Gossip Girl or90210. Commercial time on Glee commands top dollar (behind only Sunday Night Football and American Idol, according to Advertising Age) and big-name stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Britney Spears line up for guest appearances. Its coveted berth after the recent Super Bowl -- of all things -- shouted one thing: Glee has become the only true network TV breakout hit of the last few years.

On Ellen, however, he came out as 'not gay'