A wonderful resource from Robotwisdom on romantic love:
Here are several thousand quotes about romantic love, set within an analysis of the normal course it takes:
* Wishing (and loneliness)
* Seeking (includes dating-advice genre)
* Hoping (the symptoms of love)
* Planning (the best intentions)
* Weighing (is this match plausible?)
[...]
From Kevin Kelly:
You’ll be hearing more about sovereign wealth funds and flows in the future.
A sovereign wealth fund is a huge heap of money that is controlled by a nation — say Singapore or Saudi Arabia — rather than by a private transnational company. The latter is called private equity funds and their investments have [...]
Belgrade 2.0 celebrates New Belgrade’s 60th birthday:
It’s hard to imagine that sight: on April 11th, 1948, thousands of young men and women gathered in front of a swamp ground where New Belgrade lies today, obserbing nothing but piles of sand and a complete wasteland. For the next two years they will be working as volonteers [...]
The elliptiGO glide bike combines the best aspects of running and cycling to create a fun and effective means of exercising outdoors.
[From E L L I P T I G O - Glide Bike]
You would have been 116 today.
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From the BBC:
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs.
The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
Human Rights Watch said it had new evidence [...]
Belgrade 2.0 highlights some wonderful digital guerilla warfare against the Radical party. Make sure you check out the spoof “Tomorrow Belongs To Them” (below).
[From Belgrade 2.0: Tomorrow belongs to them]
Belgrade 2.0 highlights some wonderful digital guerilla warfare against the Radical party. Make sure you check out the spoof “Tomorrow Belongs To Them” (below).
[From Belgrade 2.0: Tomorrow belongs to them]
Tom Merchant, founder of award winning travel company Black Tomato, praises Belgrade lavishly in Canada’s Metro newspaper:
War-torn Belgrade may sound like an unlikely holiday destination, but the Serbian capital has been busy winning over European travellers who find it’s one of the hottest city-break spots on the continent.
Belgrade is a city [...]