Pencils and Politics

A piece from George F. Will in Newsweek that explores the interelatedness of things, services, jobs, economies that bring about the production of something with no overall controller, no 'pencil Czar' for instance...

Five simple ways to save a life

"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Quick: What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction? ...

Hayao Miyazaki is back

To all Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fans... Hayao Miyazaki is back with a new feature-length animated film... drawn in pencil. " Oscar-winning Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki releases his first full-length film in four years this weekend, dropping computer graphics...

Pig in Boots: The world's only porker who is afraid of mud

I am a bit fed up with the Lisbon Treaty and other depressing news so I needed something a bit lighter and as I know that all of you here really like pigs I thought that you might like this story.For more...

Giant Twitter Typewriter in Second Life

From the virtual inventions desk, comes this cute mashup of Second Life and Twitter — a giant typewriter has been created in the virtual world of SL that allows users to type 140 characters of fun onto...

55 Years of Living With Pencil in Brain Over

Fascinating story of medical wonder.  The pencil must have lodged in the 80% of the brain we don't use/ need. "A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering...

Voyage reveals bizarre life around deep-sea gas seeps (Video)

An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east coast.'This is...

top tips about civils

"1. Don't sit for this exam. Far too many people apply for this exam without knowing many of the details. Far too many people sit for this exam without knowing if they are capable of overcoming the huge pressure which the exam brings. As a result far too many people apply...

$4 content writer revisited...Talking with a "low budget" writer...

"After reading my recent interview with Pawan Bahuguna, a "wholesale" supplier of inexpensive content, Anne Wayman decided to find someone who wrote online content at those rates.   She found Mike Siebar, who answered a series of questions on "low end" writing for...

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