Web pioneers win inaugural $1.5 mn engineering prize
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Web pioneers win inaugural $1.5 mn engineering prize →
Eric Idle’s Rules for Reading →
Rule 1: Never be without a book.
Rule 2: Skip all Prefaces, Forewords and Introductions.
Rule 3: If you’re bored with a book, chuck it. There are millions of books you will never get to read, so if one doesn’t grab you, put it down.
Rule 4: You don’t have to finish a book. You can always come back to it.
Rule 6: You may read several books at once.
Rule 7: You may skip and skim. This is not a class, this is life.
Rule 8: Try and buy from your local bookshop while you still have one.
Rule 9: There is no rule 9.
Rule 10: Enjoy!
~ Eric Idle from, Eric Idle Blog » Editorial
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Eric Idle’s – yes, that Eric Idle – ten rules for reading, from Editorial.
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Onward! →
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. There are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the men of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant; if we suppress all discussion, all criticism, saying, ‘This is it, boys, man is saved!’ and thus doom man for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.
~ Richard Feynman from, Richard Feynman on the Universal Responsibility of Scientists
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Feynman wrote several great, short books that are not hard science. This, and “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”, are great places to start.
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Carpe momentum →
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die,
~ Jimi Hendrix
so let me live my life the way I want to.
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Periodic table of Advice Animals →
Hero training →
If you are in a crappy situation, struggling with weight loss, or struggling to change your diet, believe that the Hero version of you is waiting to develop. You’re in the ‘challenge’ part of the story right now. Without that, the Hero part will have no meaning.
Who wants to read the story about the awesome guy that got more awesome? Nobody!
~ Steve Kamb from, Hero Training 101: 4 Steps To Save The Galaxy
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Thug kitchen →
Seriously? Yes, this is awesome: http://thugkitchen.com/
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High-fructos corn syrup is bad for bees? →
Specifically, they found that when bees are exposed to the enzyme p-coumaric, their immune system appears stronger—it turns on detoxification genes. P-coumaric is found in pollen walls, not nectar, and makes its way into honey inadvertently via sticking to the legs of bees as they visit flowers. Similarly, the team discovered other compounds found in poplar sap that appear to do much the same thing. It all together adds up to a diet that helps bees fight off toxins, the researchers report. Taking away the honey to sell it, and feeding the bees high-fructose corn syrup instead, they claim, compromises their immune systems, making them more vulnerable to the toxins that are meant to kill other bugs.
~ Bob Yirka from, Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies
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Fear, anger, suffering →
Fear is the path of the Dark Side.
~ Yoda, in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999 film)
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
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Timeless message for teens →
The New Zealand Herald reports, Kiwi principal sends teen message viral… 53 years on
According to a 2010 post on the Pierce County Tribune website, the words come from a letter by Judge Phillip B. Gilliam of Denver, Colorado, published on December 17, 1959, which explains why the advice sounds somewhat dated.
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Almost 15,000 people shared the link on their own Facebook profiles, attracting the attention of American news website the Huffington Post and fuelling the internet sensation.
Words for teenagers everyone…
Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘What can we do, where can we go?’
My answer is this: Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you’ve finished, read a book.
Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun.
The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something.
You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again.
In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone.
Start behaving like a responsible person.
You are important and you are needed.
It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday.
Someday is now and that somebody is you.
~ Judge Phillip B. Gilliam of Denver, Colorado, published on December 17, 1959
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