There’s no glass in your coke, you fucking psycho.

"It all sounds very, very sexy, and the people behind it have veritable loads of experience in LJ coding and LJ management."

As you work, you'll get a sense of what kind of stitch is called for to achieve your desired shape.

A simple exercise you can do to demonstrate this is to try to make a more or less flat circle, beginning with a ring start and lots of increases (once in every stitch, in the first row). As you enlarge the circle, you will need to make fewer and ( Read more... )

The collective efforts of philosophers and others continue to illuminate what has struck many people as the most incomprehensible and most troubling of human behaviors.

Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.

13 words not found in the English language

1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the ( Read more... )

Components of flow

Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:

1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in ( Read more... )

20% of scientists in an informal survey admitted to using ‘cognitive enhancing’ drugs

Kids, ages 2-8, spend an average of 28 minutes each day colouring.

Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant

Engage in Reading-Type Behavior
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass ( Read more... )