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This is a pretty awesome way to get rid overstocked bike helmets. No one wants to buy the last year’s models anyway.

David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) is one of the better books on organizing one’s life. This is a workbook to use with the book.
David Allen – Getting Things Done Fast – Workbook

Incredibly moving and insightful lectures from two of my favorite podcasts:
Death Anxiety by Ernesto Spinelli from TVO’s Big Ideas Best Lecture series podcast (MP3 download).

The Crowded Universe: a conversation with Dr. Alan Boss conducted by Dr. Moira Gunn of the Tech Nation podcast from the IT Conversations Network (MP3 download).

School A place where Parents pay and children play

Life Insurance A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse A person who wakes you up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters..

Tears The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through “the minds of either”.

Conference The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Boss Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor A person who holds your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Classic Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Etc. A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience The name men give to their mistakes.

Philosopher A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise.

A friend just introduced me to this cool new web site featuring ‘significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world’. The content consists of digital photos which you can zoom into and see the detail.