No need to spend two hours Stumbling for something good, here are seven pre-selected entertaining time-wasters for your enjoyment. Top 10 Bizarre Literary Deaths. Only click if you like adorable photo sequences of pets. Phrase Thesaurus. A paid service, but you can fool with it for 20 minutes for free. And isn't that what StumbleUpon is truly … [Read more...] about StumbleUpon Friday: November 30, 2007
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It’s Time to Get off our Ass and Save the World
Seth Godin directed our attention this morning to an organization called Room to Read, a nonprofit group that builds schools and libraries for children in some of the world's poorest rural communities. Here are some stats from their site. In the past seven years, they've built 287 schools, established more than 3,700 libraries, published 146 new … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Get off our Ass and Save the World
A Manual for the Odd and Lonesome
Tonight I offer you a lovely post by Shane of Shane and Peter about the process of learning to connect with other people. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of folks who read this blog (certainly the person who writes it) can identify with the gawky, geeky boy who didn't know how on earth to meet all of those other humans milling around him. … [Read more...] about A Manual for the Odd and Lonesome
In Praise of Crazy Shit
Hugh McLeod announces that after the distraction of well-paid, interesting, rewarding work that's burning him out, he's going to refocus his attention on his cartoon blog, for which he makes basically peanuts. So he'll be scaling back what's probably a gigantically sweet deal with Microsoft. Scaling back the sexy, rewarding and highly visible work … [Read more...] about In Praise of Crazy Shit
