"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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“The past three years have seen the rise of the uber-techno, super-flashy, full-carbon fibre, bobby-dazzler road bike. The market for these bikes has expanded faster than a 45-year-old’s waistline, partly thanks to the success of the British cycling stars at the Beijing Olympics. Marketing departments have produced smart advertising messages that encourage a bit of freedom, elite performance and memories of teenage derring-do.
And the result can be seen on Saturday and Sunday mornings as middle-aged blokes polish the rear derailleur, lower the mirrored shades and pedal into the hills. Every couple of weeks, you’ll see a girth of [
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Infographic: 120 fake sci-fi events on a real-world timeline | Blastr.
This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States.
BLIMEY!
via List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I am so glad people still say this.
That’s the take that Chris Kostman has on riding off-road. Mountain bike? No way. He just uses his road bike, and he’ll leave any mountain biker in the dust, he claims.
These two quotes will tell you where he’s coming from:
1. “[T]he mountain bike is the most over-rated, most improperly used, most over-built, and most greedily promoted piece of hardware to hit the sport and fitness industry in modern history.”
2. Can’t ride off-road without wide, knobby tires, and at least some suspension? Chris’ retort: “‘Technique beats technology any time, anywhere.”
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It’s exam time folks and we have some advice for all you teen social-media addicts out there.
GIVE IT UP AND MATRICULATE LIKE IT MATTERS
It is mad to blame one safety official for the six-day flight ban – it was actually a product of elite risk-aversion.
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Apple’s intentions to dominate handheld gaming were already pretty clear back in March of 2008 as game studio after game studio lined up behind the iPhone (and iPod touch by extension). Now look at the graphics above. Yeah, based on the report from Flurry Analytics, Apple’s casual gaming approach is carving out a nice slice of the US revenue pie related to gaming software. The PSP was hit especially hard dropping from a 20% share in 2008 to just 11% of US revenue last year. Numbers that highlight just how ridiculous John Koller’s spin maneuver was after [
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Yet Adrian Hart, a community filmmaker and tutor, argues in ‘The Myth of Racist Kids: Anti-Racist Policy and the Regulation of School Life’ that ‘the notion of racist kids is in large part a myth’. Hart became concerned about today’s anti-bullying and anti-racist policies while working on a government-funded educational film about racism in schools.
He writes: ‘I observed a strange and concerning phenomenon: in modern cosmopolitan Britain, where race is becoming less and less relevant, and where children often have friends from many different ethnic groups, the dominant racialising influence on children is anti-racist policy itself. [
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congestion: the great legislator
The government signalled the end of intercity motorway building today as it announced plans for a £30bn high-speed rail network, with the first phase between London and Birmingham opening in 2026.
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, said the motorway [
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A decade ago most of us were using AltaVista or something similar for search. No one was really complaining very much about the huge amount of spam and other noise that cluttered the results because we didn’t know there was a better way. Then Google came along with Page Rank, and had a profound effect on the quality of Internet search. Suddenly (and it really was that sudden), we couldn’t imagine going back to AltaVista and searching pages of results for the thing that Google gave us immediately.
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A doctor pushing for the City of Austin, Texas to adopt a law making the wearing of cycling helmets compulsory for adults is the lead author of an academic study that found that there was no significant difference in risk of head injury between cyclists wearing helmets and those without.
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What do a trucker, an Israeli entrepreneur, Al Gore and Richard Branson all have in common? Proof that the real goldmines are old, neglected industries.
The name of that proof is GreenRoad. While so many entrepreneurs bang their heads against a Web and social media advertising brick wall, GreenRoad has applied common technology to an industry technology has largely passed by and—voilà—they’ve got a business that’s growing and saving lives, money and the environment.
Driving is the third most deadly profession after deep sea fishing and working in a coal mine. Not only does driving more safely save [
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TIPTOP!
The author's rules of thumb for those who can't be bothered to read his articles or books.
1. Don't buy anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
2. Avoid products with ingredients that cannot be found in an ordinary pantry.
3. Don't buy anything that lists sugar in its first three ingredients.
4. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay away from the middle.
5. If it came from a plant, buy it. If it was made in a plant, pass it by.
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With his hatred of nightclubs and blokes, his constant carping about what’s on TV, and his recent campaign to censure a newspaper columnist, Charlie Brooker is the closest thing we have to a modern-day Mary Whitehouse.
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If you didn’t already know it, biking and walking are really good for you. Thanks to a new study released by the Alliance for Biking and Walking we now have the data to prove it. There is a lot of great information in the study and I recommend you check it out. But for those of you on the fly, a few highlights:
-Less than 10% of all trips are made by bike or foot
-From 2000-2007 the number of commuters who bike to work increased by 42%
-States with the highest levels of cycling and walking have [
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This week, for the first time, the number of female GPs outnumber male GPs in Scotland.
Since 1970, an ever-greater proportion of wives are higher paid, and more educated, than their husbands. That’s according to this new report by Pew Research. The New York Times covers it here.
This is a positive trend for some obvious reasons. One reason women made less than their husbands in the past was that professional opportunities for women were limited by sexism. This is a sign that that situation’s getting better. Also, financial independence makes it easier for any marriage partner, male [
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The world is going free! everyone need shovels and shovels need replacing but you can only hand over your gold once.
In October Newsday (a Long Island daily paper that was sold for $650 million) began charging for online access. The price is $5 per week. In three months 35 people have subscribed.
The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.
In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well.
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This article is part of The GOOD Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here.
Easy ways to unplug your gadgets and your life
Perhaps you’ve heard: Texting while driving can kill you. If you ask us, staying too connected behind your desk can be dangerous, as well. In recent studies, single-taskers have outperformed those who take on many tasks at a time, suggesting that multitaskers are less efficient, have heavier workloads, and set themselves up for elevated stress and its related problems, like weight gain, sleep loss, and elevated blood [
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This article is part of The GOOD Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here.
Finally, turn off your TV, computer, stereo, iPod, cell phone, Kindle, etc. and… read a book. Yes, that’s right, go old school and pick up a printed piece of literature. Not only does reading a book take some time but—yes, we’re biased—print just makes everything a little better. Here are 10 books that will help you slow down, relax, and reconsider your place in the world.
Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and [
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1. Decide that quality matters and pay for it. In the end, it will save you time and money.
2. Before you buy, be selective. Scrutinize items for build quality, fit, finish, functionality and lasting style. If an item is not perfect, catch and release it.
3. Do more with less. Add a few key pieces to your wardrobe and wear them until they dissolve.
Archival Clothing: Archival Resolutions: 2010.
More than £400million a year is being raised by police and town halls targeting minor ‘middle-class’ crimes.
They are hitting millions of people with tickets for speeding, parking, litter and even putting out bins on the wrong day.
The ‘offenders’ are being caught using a range of increasingly advanced surveillance techniques, including spy cameras.
The amount raked in from ‘soft crimes’ includes £330million in parking fines, £100million from speeding tickets and £12million from spot fines for offences such as over-filling a dustbin so its lid will not close.
Speed cameras alone snare more than 1.4million people a year.
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You would have thought that people would have had enough of silly love songs, they haven’t and the song remains the same. Some good some bad and some that have meanings that seem to change with us as we grow older and others that we get bang on the first time we ever hear them.
I have no doubt that people will queue up to explain stuff to me about Robert Palmer and had I considered this song or that one but this one seems a song that it was quite an achievement for a young man to [
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I accidentally came across an interesting comment by Charley Forness on how he uses his moleskine notebooks:
The first thing I do is number all the pages and put a Table of Contents in back. The TOC is more or less a way of documenting the truly good stuff I might want to reference in the future. So, not everything gets logged in the TOC. If I’m whining again in a journal entry about why I’m not independently wealthy, that typically won’t make it into the TOC.
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I’ve just discovered a fantastic application on the BBCs website thats been there since 15 December. They have plotted all the road deaths in the UK from 1999 to 2008 and placed them on a map. You can even search for your police force and get figures. It also breaks the figures down by sex and how the person was travelling at the time. You can, if interested, also get age groups and times of deaths.
Here are the total number of road deaths caused in Britain each year:
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It’s hard to be humble when you come from Stoke Newington – as many of the residents prove. Not affluent: mean, mode or median? Obviously not all (or even many) of them grew up there, but house prices now and the deceit of short-term rentals around the parish of St Mary’s each time a scion hits Year-6 will embed the burgeoning ‘new priest-class’ there.
Also, Hackney improvements today coincide with opening of 3 academies – ie. schools not run by the local authority, an authority that hosted the first school in Britain closed under special measures. With the loss of the [
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“The world’s population is burning through the planet’s resources at such a reckless rate – about 28 per cent more last year – it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank. In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of consumption and greed unless changes in our lifestyle were made.”
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Or cycle, walk, swim on your own because you actually enjoy it?
“Tradition dictates that this is a difficult time of year. It’s the point where we have to swap the sofa for a sweaty gym. We’ll also be deluged by diet and fitness advice. Sadly, tradition also dictates that you’ll ignore this. In Europe, there has been a serious decline in physical activity over the past 50 years. Adults aged 20-60 years expend 500kcal less energy per day than they did 50 years ago. As Dr Jules Pretty, professor of Environment and Society at the University of [
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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a f**king big television Choose washing-machines, cars, compact-disc players, and electrical tin-openers. Choose good-health, low-cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter-home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure-wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire-purchase in a range of f**king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game-shows stuffing f**king junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home [
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Less feared by whom? It would be hard for anyone to have ‘feared’ it less than I do.
The swine flu pandemic is “considerably less lethal” than feared, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson says.
BBC News – Swine flu less lethal than feared.
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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