<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410128</id><updated>2012-01-29T18:51:21.054-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ImproveSomething.com</title><subtitle type='html'>Just a thought.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>blurbees.com</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3635/1999/1600/blurbee1986.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410128.post-8299077003309870193</id><published>2008-09-01T20:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-03T00:16:46.950-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Click on the sign, then use your computer's File/Print menu to print it out.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s1600-h/menu-file-print.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168907459416891634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Click, then Menu: File/Print" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s400/menu-file-print.jpg" border="0" width=300/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ready?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Print out the Improve Something sign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(use your computer's File/Print option after &lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;clicking here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s1600-h/menu-file-print.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167380869126103266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7Y5hcNpIOI/AAAAAAAAABU/oda8mJK799w/s200/021508_1353a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Hold up the print-out, flash a peace sign, and snap a picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Upload your photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;a href="mailto:photos@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Email us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the link (or post it in the &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;amp;postID=4462893506033734663&amp;amp;isPopup=true" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;comments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and we'll add your photo to the Improvement Movement Collection!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Email to: &lt;a href="mailto:photos@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;photos@improvesomething.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;MySpace Comments: &lt;a href="http://myspace.com/improvesomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Blog Comments: &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;amp;postID=4462893506033734663&amp;amp;isPopup=true" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Post your photo link(s) here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use any (or all) of the above to send your creative effort to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Post your picture to your own website, blog, myspace, etc..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mjtfzr&amp;amp;s=3" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;TinyPic.com auto-creates posting codes for myspace, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And after you're done posing with the piece of paper, instead of tossing it in the garbage, Recycle!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Find somewhere cool to pin-up the print-out(s).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:150;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And if you really want to go all out:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Repeat the above steps with different poses!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;(or xerox a dozen signs and ask your friends to join the fun!)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your picture-phone or digital camera a good work-out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's get those signs up everywhere and Make Things Better!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you for your support!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s1600-h/menu-file-print.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168907459416891634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Click, Menu: File/Print" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s400/menu-file-print.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://improvesomething.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ImproveSomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29410128-8299077003309870193?l=improvesomething.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/feeds/8299077003309870193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;postID=8299077003309870193&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/8299077003309870193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/8299077003309870193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/2008/02/print-this-out.html' title='Click on the sign, then use your computer&apos;s File/Print menu to print it out.'/><author><name>publisher</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s72-c/menu-file-print.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410128.post-82927036252910006</id><published>2008-04-01T13:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T22:18:43.458-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Improve Something Campaign Video (v 2.3a)</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;object width="410" height="365"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9uDAcX_efQk&amp;border=1&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9uDAcX_efQk&amp;border=1&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="410" height="365"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDAcX_efQk" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(version 2.3a)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Words &amp; Music&lt;br/&gt;by &lt;a href="http://myspace.com/ennissisters" target="0_blank"&gt;Ennis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://improvesomething.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ImproveSomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29410128-82927036252910006?l=improvesomething.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/feeds/82927036252910006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;postID=82927036252910006&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/82927036252910006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/82927036252910006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/2008/04/improve-something-campaign-video.html' title='Improve Something Campaign Video (v 2.3a)'/><author><name>$Zero</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/SUVR-CZFBLI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/tn6fMYc7eds/S220/cash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410128.post-4462893506033734663</id><published>2008-02-20T04:40:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T22:09:22.016-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Want to Help Improve Something? (v 2.9)</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7Y2O8NpINI/AAAAAAAAABM/8H_FJiCpDh8/s400/021508_1353a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167377252763640018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time and Energy Spent &lt;br /&gt;Making Things Better &lt;br /&gt;is Time and Energy &lt;br /&gt;Well Spent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, that's what we keep telling ourselves, anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But seriously...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i26.tinypic.com/21jr3bq.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/21jr3bq.jpg" width="400" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative, Young or Old, Rich or Poor, ImproveSomething.com offers you a quick and easy way to encourage creative positive ideas using the power of suggestion to remind yourself (and others) to give a little more daily thought and action to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Improve" target="0_blank"&gt;Making Things Better!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, how can you help&lt;br&gt;Improve Something?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news is that it only takes a few short minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The _better_ news is that it requires only a few non-strenuous muscle movements: making a couple clicks; choosing File/Print; lifting up a piece of paper, etc..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the BEST news is that it's FUN, too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just print out the groovy&lt;br&gt;Improve Something sign and&lt;br&gt;take a nice picture with it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It's that simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semi-amusing step-by-step instructions are provided below -- describing what shouldn't take you more than five to ten minutes, tops! (unless you're one of those people who can't find their camera when they want to use it -- or discover that their printer is out of toner; Murphy's Law; and so on). In which case, it could take you a full fifteen minutes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's time it, k?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ready?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Print out the Improve Something sign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(use your computer's File/Print option after &lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;clicking here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s1600-h/menu-file-print.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7Y5hcNpIOI/AAAAAAAAABU/oda8mJK799w/s200/021508_1353a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167380869126103266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Hold up the print-out, flash a peace sign, and snap a picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Upload your photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;a href="mailto:photos@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Email us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the link (or post it in the &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;postID=4462893506033734663&amp;isPopup=true" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;comments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and we'll add your photo to the Improvement Movement Collection!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Email to: &lt;a href="mailto:photos@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;photos@improvesomething.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;MySpace Comments: &lt;a href="http://myspace.com/improvesomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Blog Comments: &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;postID=4462893506033734663&amp;isPopup=true" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Post your photo link(s) here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use any (or all) of the above to send your creative effort to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Post your picture to your own website, blog, myspace, etc..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mjtfzr&amp;s=3" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;TinyPic.com auto-creates posting codes for myspace, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And after you're done posing with the piece of paper, instead of tossing it in the garbage, Recycle!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Find somewhere cool to pin-up the print-out(s).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:150%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And if you really want to go all out:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Repeat the above steps with different poses!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;(or xerox a dozen signs and ask your friends to join the fun!)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your picture-phone or digital camera a good work-out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's get those signs up everywhere and Make Things Better!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you for your support!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s1600-h/menu-file-print.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7ul8sNpIPI/AAAAAAAAABc/_yQjoqYAQB8/s400/menu-file-print.jpg" border="0" alt="Click, Menu: File/Print"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168907459416891634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://improvesomething.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ImproveSomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29410128-4462893506033734663?l=improvesomething.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/feeds/4462893506033734663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29410128&amp;postID=4462893506033734663&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/4462893506033734663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29410128/posts/default/4462893506033734663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://improvesomething.blogspot.com/2008/02/print-snap-and-upload.html' title='Want to Help Improve Something? (v 2.9)'/><author><name>$Zero</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/SUVR-CZFBLI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/tn6fMYc7eds/S220/cash.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R7Y2O8NpINI/AAAAAAAAABM/8H_FJiCpDh8/s72-c/021508_1353a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410128.post-6366190422281353524</id><published>2008-02-19T13:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T22:07:02.741-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome (version 2.2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZCssd4zkRsY/R6quf73za2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/hekzB433ukA/s1600-h/is-dotcom.JPG" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164131786404621154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZCssd4zkRsY/R6quf73za2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/hekzB433ukA/s320/is-dotcom.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dedicated to making things better!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why Improve Something? &amp;nbsp;Why not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve what? &amp;nbsp;Improve whatever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be creative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Take a Sad Song and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Make it Better&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join the Improvement Movement!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Improve this video!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sDUEisvLFvc;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sDUEisvLFvc&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;em&gt;ImproveSomething.com Video (version 2.2)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Does that video need improving, or what? There's not even any sound yet. Got any suggestions?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ideas@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ideas@improvesomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your ideas and support of the Improvement Movement will help us, you, and/or others to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a skill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7XGJQKMXg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;(master a musical instrument)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Is that a great movie, or what?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve an essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a joke. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: To make an Improvement Movement!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ba'dum, chsh!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/improvesomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://myspace.com/improvesomething&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve your health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve your neighborhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve a nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, support the Improvement Movement and you'll help make something better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ideas@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ideas@improvesomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve your environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve your understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improve your perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you improve your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R61DCsNpIHI/AAAAAAAAAAY/SeVptBZ_xts/s1600-h/is-t-shirt.JPG" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164858061171007602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R61DCsNpIHI/AAAAAAAAAAY/SeVptBZ_xts/s320/is-t-shirt.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you yourself can't think of any specific ways to improve something right this second, support the Improvement Movement by sending us twenty bucks [1] and we'll send you the Official ImproveSomething.com t-shirt (and the owner's manual [2]).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wear it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go for a nice walk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(because making Improvement Movements improves your health!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And whenever someone asks you what the t-shirt means, you can then give the whole Improve Something idea a bit more immediate thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or order the Official ImproveSomething.com coffee mug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R6907MNpIII/AAAAAAAAAAg/u5BTEYk1G70/s1600-h/is-mug.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165475857856798850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R6907MNpIII/AAAAAAAAAAg/u5BTEYk1G70/s320/is-mug.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Can be used for drinking tea as well as coffee, or even a beer!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the Official t-shirt, the Official coffee mug also comes with an owner's manual. [2]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Order Today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R69_JMNpIKI/AAAAAAAAAAw/7uxKgopOPDU/s320/is-mugsipping.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165487093491245218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, while enjoying your favorite beverage, take a few moments to give even more fruitful consideration to the Improvement Movement concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2vl0dw2.jpg" target="0_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hgTtI9DCS0E/R69_TsNpILI/AAAAAAAAAA4/vzjnktY5fGg/s320/is-flower-0001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165487273879871666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you'll decide to use one of your Official ImproveSomething.com coffee mugs to display a bouquet of flowers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because sometimes the best way to Improve Something is to simply stop and smell the roses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] Join or Support the Improvement Movement!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2] Includes easy instructions on how to get your smiling face into the official ImproveSomething.com music video campaign (coming soon to YouTube!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/improvesomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;YouTube.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Are you making things better or worse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Stop making cheesy and lazy excuses.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, make some joyful Improvement Movements!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://improvesomething.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ImproveSomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE: Improve this very Welcome Message that you're reading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ideas@improvesomething.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ideas@improvesomething.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/ImproveSomething" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MySpace.com/ImproveSomething&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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