August 2008
29 posts
American Beauty (1999) →
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato via Brian Fitzgerald
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle via Zen Habits
Beth Kanter shares two core consideration for... →
The first step is to listen - and by listening I mean find out who is having a conversation about your organization or issue. If you haven’t done the listening, don’t bother with a social networking strategy.
The “loosing control” aspect of social media will happen no matter and you need to have the conversation internally to figure out how you will address it.
“INTJ: Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and...”
– MBTI Basics
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never slept with a...”
– via email
About Swishing
Dictionary Definition: To rustle, as silk.
Our definition: To rustle clothes from friends.
The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends together to swap gorgeous clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must bring at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that she’d feel proud to hand on. (Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully received. And...
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“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it...”
– Martin Luther King via Ed Gillespie (Futerra Sustainability Communications)
Sin City (2005) →
“Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not...”
– via Merlin Mann
Artful Rules for Work and Life
Rule 1: Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
Rule 2: General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.
Rule 3: General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.
Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.
Rule 5: Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
Rule 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
Rule 8: Don't try to create and analyse at the same time. They're different processes.
Rule 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
Rule 10: "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for x quantities." —John Cage.
Helpful Hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully. Often save everything — it might come in handy later.
Artful Rules for Work and Life →
The Dark Knight (2008) →
“Communist rule can seriously ruin your mood.”
– The Economist via Julie
Le Fumoir Bar in Paris →
The best bar in the world, according to Zoe.
“The grand myth of environmentalism is that it’s all about saving the Earth. It’s...”
– How You Can Save The World | Visions for Tomorrow
“The number of oceanic dead zones, in which aquatic ecosystems disappear due to...”
– Ocean ‘dead zones’ expanding worldwide: study
Bauernhofcafé In´t Hürhus & Swingolf Mehringer... →
Lesse Kayak →
Take the train to Houyet, get on a kayak, follow the Lesse for 21 km, get wet and have great fun!
“PUSH YOURSELF TO THE LIMIT AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE”
– Twitter / Jenny Holzer
“The most successful ‘failed state’ of all time.”
– The taz about Belgium (via NYTimes.com)
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WALL·E (2008) →
“Yeah. It seems Homo “Sapiens” at large needs to first get hit by the wall before...”
– Dot Earth - New York Times Blog
“Food production to satisfy a person’s daily dietary needs
takes about 3,000...”
– Agricultural Ecosystems: Facts and Trends
Hancock (2008) →
