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| Robs Place |
| Robs Place is a blog about how to live ethically for people who don’t really consider themselves to “activists”? You really don’t have to live in a tree or go to demonstrations to be an activist - the small choices we make every single day can and do make an impact. New content is added to Robs Place daily. |
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| My top tips |
| 2007-10-26 11:32:47 |
Here are some of my suggestions [link]:
Protect your own health:
Save on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whisky. The following morning you can create the effects of a hangover by drinking a thimble full of washing up liquid and banging your head repeatedly on the wall.
Avoid cutting yourself while clumsily slicing vegetables by [...]...
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| The top 25 Spanish pronouns |
| 2007-10-25 11:17:29 |
Here are the top 25 Spanish pronouns:
1. se -self [reflexive marker]
14. esto this
2. le [3rd pers. indir. obj. pron.]
15. te you (fam., obj.)
3. lo [3rd pers. m. dir. obj. pron.]
16. quien who
4. la [3rd pers. f. dir. obj. pron.]
17. cual which, who, whom
5. me me
18. éste, -a this one
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| Pre-marathon advice? |
| 2007-10-24 11:06:13 |
[link]
Drink a lot of water
Pasta for dinner, but not too much
Maybe go for a walk, maybe do some yoga and stretching, but don’t push it and don’t go running
Eat bananas
Strategically-placed Vaseline
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The Stitch - slowing down, stopping or bring your breathing into careful control.
Runner’s Trots - drink plenty of water, cut out all dairy products [...]...
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| Weird mirror |
| 2007-10-23 10:16:28 |
It’s in German but it’s easy to pick up whats going on.
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| Food you need to avoid |
| 2007-10-22 10:58:00 |
The most expensive junk food:
With the finest ingredients and astronomical prices, these ordinarily ‘cheap’ eats are anything but.
[link] Vosges Haut-Chocolate offers a milk chocolate bar laced with smoked Applewood bacon bits.
[link] The 6 most terrifying foods in world:
Escamoles
Casu Marzu
Lutefisk
Baby Mice Wine
Pacha
Balut
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| Cubicle Freakout game |
| 2007-10-21 10:08:45 |
Cubicle Freakout game dedicated to frustrated office workers the world over.
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| Van Halen - give it up |
| 2007-10-20 10:33:02 |
Check out these vids:
Van Halen now
Apparently, the pre-recorded synth parts were accidentally played back at a 48k bitrate instead of 44.1k. The result is a dissonant mess. [link]
Van Halen then
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| Free music |
| 2007-10-16 23:31:10 |
I like listening to obscure music. Music that sometimes defies categorization. However, it tends to be created by new unsigned or signed and underground bands.
Here are some of the latest tunes to assault my eardrums:
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| Running progress & links |
| 2007-10-14 23:30:11 |
I love running … it keeps me fit, reduces stress and burns off the excess calories.
I also recommend using supplements, especially creatine as:
Multiple studies show that creatine as a positive influence on athletic performance.
I use myprotein.co.uk — high quality, low price and no nonsense. If you quote my referrer code: MP24536 you’ll get 5% [...]...
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| Ultimate “Learn Spanish” links |
| 2007-10-12 23:10:25 |
I’m learning to speak spanish. As such I try to keep up to date with the best links available on the Internet. Here are some of the best I’ve found recently along with a few “words of the day”:
links
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Click for “del.icio.us learn spanish”. Powered [...]...
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| Best lifehacks & GTD resource in the known universe |
| 2007-10-10 02:49:32 |
Getting Things Done, personal productivity, lifehacks - we love them all!
In this post I regularly scour the web to give you the ultimate links on a regular basis. Check these out:
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| Whats pulp-ular in the world of sci-fi? |
| 2007-10-09 07:44:14 |
Here’s a regular post covering some of the best classic sci-fi artwork to be found on Flickr.
Not only that but the best pulp sci-fli links from around the interweb as well!
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| Pandoras Box by EC Tubb |
| 2007-10-08 00:59:26 |
I’m currently reading Pandoras Box by Edwin Charles Tubb (October 15, 1919 -). He’s a British author, primarily of science fiction. He has also written under about 20 pseudonyms, including Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban (with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), Gregory Kern, King Lang (with George Hay and [...]...
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| What’s the #1 terror tactic? |
| 2007-10-05 21:11:39 |
Swivel has thrown-up an interesting graph:
The most recent acts of terrorism in headlining news have included suicide bombers in Pakistan, car bombs in London and a flaming SUV that crashed through the doors of the international airport in Glasgow, Scotland. This graph shows that bombing has been the most common tactic used in [...]...
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| Britian: sleepwalking into class war |
| 2007-09-24 21:13:42 |
Can you hear the distant rumble of discontent? I can from the British middle classes. Dutifully paying their taxes and struggling to pay the mortgage, they find it hard to restrain their fury at the behaviour of the super-rich - that “micro-class” of private equity buccaneers, hedge [...]...
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| The moral majority is in revolt |
| 2007-09-23 23:40:41 |
Britain’s law-abiding majority is a myth. A recent study found that 61% of Britons admitted to such dodgy practices as pilfering office stationery, padding insurance claims and paying builders in cash. But if the respectable middle classes really are this lawless I suspect it has more to do with resentment than greed.
For the truth [...]...
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| Multiculturalism is dead |
| 2007-09-23 21:16:57 |
Since Mahmod Mahmod arrived from Kurdish Iraq as an asylum seeker ten years ago, his integration into British society seems to have been slight. The Old Bailey recently found him guilty of ordering the murder of his 20-year-old daughter Banaz. His family’s honour was more important to him than her life; and by leaving [...]...
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| The Steorn perpetual motion machine |
| 2007-09-22 21:11:56 |
Steorn Ltd. is a small privately held technology development company based in Dublin, Ireland.
The company drew the attention of the mainstream media in August 2006 by placing a full-page advertisement in The Economist, claiming to have developed a technology that produces “free, clean, and constant energy” and challenging the scientific community to review its [...]...
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| Why too much populism is bad for America |
| 2007-09-21 23:37:31 |
If there is one thing that all today’s presidential candidates would agree on, it is that Washington has grown deaf to the wishes of the American people. This notion has become a staple of every campaign speech, yet in reality, the opposite is true. Far from ignoring public opinion, their badly weakened president and [...]...
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| Unhappiness is an iPhone |
| 2007-09-20 21:11:56 |
The rise of modern economies, Marx argued, relied on convincing consumers that they needed gadget after gadget, luxury after luxury. Capitalism led people to regard objects newly available for purchase as magical and strange, investing them with a value they did not inherently have. This argument, from the first chapter of Das Kapital, is [...]...
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| Germany beats the UK on climate change |
| 2007-09-19 23:08:31 |
The £3bn widening of a stretch of the M6 tells you a lot about Government spending priorities. It is 40 times what is being spent on the low-carbon buildings programme aimed at boosting take-up of renewable energies: £3bn spent on railways, solar panels, wind turbines or insulation might have been more sensible. But like [...]...
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| Britains “nothing” economy |
| 2007-09-19 21:10:18 |
Britain’s economy is built on blah, blah, blah.
The Germans export motor vehicles trailers and semi-trailers, electrical machinery, chemicals and chemicals products
The French specialise in machinery and transport equipment, agricultural products, including wine
The Italians send electric goods (especially home appliances), food, fashion and clothing.
And the Brits?
While we do plastics, aerospace products and electrical and [...]...
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| Karl Marx gets even |
| 2007-09-17 01:39:07 |
I’m going to dub the changing balance of power in the corporate world as “Karl Marx gets even”. The means of production, in the form of computers, are now in the hands of the workers, leading some to conclude that talented people need organisations less than organisations [...]...
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| Article round-up |
| 2007-09-16 07:34:46 |
Here’s a few articles that caught my eye recently ….
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| You want another war – are you crazy? |
| 2007-09-16 01:21:34 |
The Government still hasn’t learned the lessons of Iraq as it’s stuck in a backward-looking debate with the media about whether the invasion was legally justified, when what it should be talking about is why the war went so wrong and the danger that the US is [...]...
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| Our misguided faith in non-political experts |
| 2007-09-15 07:20:59 |
One of the more depressing things about us is the way we are so overawed by experts. Fully 55% of you, according to a recent poll in the Daily Telegraph, applaud Gordon Brown’s decision to bring non-political experts into his ministry; only 17% think it a bad idea.
What naive faith in the idea of [...]...
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| Harry Potter - a capitalist pagan! |
| 2007-09-15 05:12:11 |
Can more than 35 million book buyers, and their offspring, be wrong? Yes, they have been, and will continue to be for as long as they persevere with Potter.
First things first Harry Potter isn’t my thing, it was Bagpuss that did it for me as a kid. Almost unbearably poignant. Someone told me a [...]...
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| Activism links from del.icio.us |
| 2007-09-14 11:10:22 |
What is del.icio.us?
del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s. You can use del.icio.us to:
Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s [...]...
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| Paris Hilton: signs of returning sanity |
| 2007-09-13 07:02:06 |
How do you explain the phenomenon that is Paris Hilton. Here is a woman who has never shown a talent for anything beyond shopping and going to nightclubs, yet still she is wildly, ridiculously, unbelievably famous.
The heiress’s notoriety began a few years ago when she unwittingly starred in a blurry sex tape posted on [...]...
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| This is why I’ll miss old two Jags |
| 2007-09-13 01:12:01 |
Spare a thought for John Prescott! His record as a minister running a department was shite, but he made an excellent deputy leader. Two Jags was not afraid of aspiration: he even boasted of rising above his working-class roots. Without his bluff common sense and mediation, Blair and Brown would never have been able [...]...
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| Eco-retail systems |
| 2007-09-12 07:11:56 |
Invasive plant and animal species have a habit of wreaking havoc on native biodiversity just like big supermarket chains, which share many of the same characteristics. They have few real predators, are exceptionally hardy, and exist on a generalist diet by selling virtually everything. If you want diversity in your world, you have to [...]...
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| Amateurish airport attack |
| 2007-09-12 00:37:05 |
The “terror strike” in the United Kingdom, this time in Scotland at Glasgow Airport resulted in two Asian men being held … since the attack … security has been tightened at Newcastle and Edinburgh airports. And somewhat bizarrely, Blackpool airport was closed off by armed police with [...]...
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| What’s happening on usenet? |
| 2007-09-11 06:32:23 |
Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through the Google Groups web interface, or by e-mail.
Yahoo! Groups is a similar service from Yahoo! that provides electronic mailing lists. [...]...
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| The misguided loyalty of the president’s men |
| 2007-09-08 07:01:54 |
The Bush administration is under fire from yet another old employee. The critic this time is the former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona. Addressing a recent congressional committee, the man who held the post of the “nation’s doctor” between 2002 and 2006, alleged that he had been instructed to mention the president at least [...]...
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| Beloved or Bloodsport (SWIVEL) |
| 2007-09-07 08:42:23 |
Sources: Pet-abuse.com / SWIVEL
Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback, Michael Vick faces federal charges related to a dog fighting ring allegedly run from his property in Surry, VA. Vick, who has been asked to stay away from the Falcon’s training camp while the National Football League investigates these charges, has reportedly been offered a plea bargain, which [...]...
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| A polluted shade of green |
| 2007-09-06 02:36:28 |
Once the workshop of the world, Britain becoming a master of turning something into nothing. A welter of new companies has sprung up to collect money from conscientious travellers keen to offset the greenhouse gases they generate while flying. The Carbon Trust reckons the market is growing by 60% a year, but there’s growing [...]...
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