2009 DECEMBER

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Samuel Johnson

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Travel blogger makes 80k per year, interview at NYTimes

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Wounded soldier’s diabetes is ‘cured’ with cells

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“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.”

Mark Twain

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“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”

Orson Scott Card

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The Restoration of Faith

All authors should have a website for this reason: I had never heard of Jim Butcher or The Dresden Files, and then I read a short story called The Restoration of Faith that is available for free on his website. Now I’ve bought and read the first book in the series (Storm Front) and the next couple are on top of my Christmas wishlist.

“I struggled to hold onto the yowling child while fumbling a quarter into the pay phone and jamming down the buttons to dial Nick’s mobile.” (read the rest of the story on butcher’s site)

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Intelligent, tool-using octopi!

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Anti-climate change, anti-human

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The new socialism–environmentalism

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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

Pearl S. Buck

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