Tag: lists
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Fifty Habits of the Highly Successful
The newly renamed Stepcase Lifehack has put up a great article succinctly describing 50 habits that you can start to make yourself more successful and – I think – happy. Great advice, simply explained. Follow these and you can’t fail but improve your general well-being and productivity. Words of wisdom abound in Fifty Habits of…
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Parental Conversations
Mc Sweeney’s Conversations My Parents Must Have Had While Planning to Raise a Child made me laugh… DAD: When I teach her to ride a bike, I will tell her that my hand is on the seat, but then I will take it away just as she is getting the hang of it. MOM: That…
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The Best Travel Destinations in the World
Less than 48 hours since I returned home from Brno and Bratislava, the 2008 Travellers’ Choice Destination Awards (pdf) have just been released by one of my favourite travel websites, TripAdvisor (my other two favourites). Already I want another holiday! However, it will come as no surprise to those who have received this in the…
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The Fear Hierarchy
Jan Pettit’s list of fears, ranked from childhood through parenthood. I’m currently somewhere between 13 and 17: 13. Fear of selling out Deserting dreams. Embracing capitalism. 14. Fear of the dark (continued) Parking lots at night. Deserted streets at night. Apartments at night. Houses at night. Bedrooms at night. 15. Fear of rejection (continued) By…
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Lies I’ve Told
I’ve been a long-time fan of Raul Gutierrez’ blog, and he’s just posted another beautiful item: Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently: If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. We are all held together by invisible threads. Books get lonely too. Sadness can be eaten.…
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The 50 Best Works of Art
The Telegraph has compiled a nice list of The 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them) Zen garden, Ryoan-ji Temple (late 15th century) Kyoto, Japan Getting there: bearable This is the most celebrated example of what in Japanese is called a karesansui, or “dry landscape”. Since it consists of nothing but raked…
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100 Best Last Lines
The 100 best last lines from novels, as chosen by the American Book Review Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how…
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Obsolete Skills – Talking Face-to-Face
Scobleizer recently asked people to come up with a list of obsolete skills. Someone duly registered ObsoleteSkills.com, created a wiki, and put up a huge A-Z list: Cranking up or down a car window Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work Loading film into a 35mm camera via kottke