Maxscratch - the best back scratcher ever?
Love the over-the-top marketing for this device
(tags: consumer_lust tools health)
Study Strengthens Link between Virus and Weight Gain
New study results bolster the controversial hypothesis that certain cases of obesity are contagious.
(tags: science medicine research health)
You Will Never Want to Wake Up Any Other Way
Innovative Colorado company introduces the world’s most [...]
ThisIsNotThat.com
Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics, E-prime and Non-Aristotelian Systems.
(tags: Logic philosophy semantics politics)
Ready for $262/barrel oil? - Jan. 27, 2006
Two of the world’s most successful investors say oil will be in short supply in the coming months.
(tags: oil energy long_emergency geopolitics)
50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition
If we were to peer backward from, say, [...]
I have waited years for athe SwiMp3 to come out since I blogged about its prototype in 2004.
I used to swim 100 lengths three times a week and found the bordom was insufferable.
I tried a £30 underwater MP3 player from a gadget shop but it was rubbish.
This look like the real deal [...]
The Long Emergency meme is spreading fast.
Deconsumption recent posted a story about “New Zealand TV News Takes the Global Economic Meltdown Mainstream”
Comments in that post lead to James Lovelock’s apocalyptic warnings in the Independent: “The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years…Each nation must find [...]
Universal Guide to Getting Laid in Japan
1. Be white (or black)…
(tags: funny guides howto humour reference sex)
BBC ON THIS DAY | 28 | 1986: Seven dead in space shuttle disaster
20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster
(tags: history space astronomy)
Seminal questions - Islamic clerics debate what sexual practices are acceptable
A curious religious debate is raging in Egypt. [...]
PocketMod - free disposable personal organiser
Handy variant of the Hipster PDA. This site allows you to choose your pages then demonstrates how to fold them into a booklet.
(tags: useful lifehacks GTD productivity utilities web-tools tools)
Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology: [Amazon.co.uk]
Evolutionary Psychology (Sociobiology) has been under attack recently. This is a [...]