American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

"The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. Approaching the edifice, it's hard not to think immediately of England's Stonehenge or possibly the ominous monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Built in 1980, these pale gray rocks are quietly awaiting the end of the world as we know it."

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones

Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

"Throughout my week using the Walkman, I came to realise that I have very little knowledge of technology from the past. I made a number of naive mistakes, but I also learned a lot about the grandfather of the MP3 Player."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm


http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/1642249/13-year-old-Trades-iPod-For-a-Walkman-For-a-Week?from=rss


http://technologizer.com/2009/06/29/walkman-vs-ipod-touch/

nyan thos - Shravaka

"The first of the two practitioners in the Hinayana tradition that reaches Nirvana is called in Tibetan nyan thos, or Shravaka in Sanskrit.[...] nyan is to listen, and thos is to hear, such as listening while hearing teachings."

http://jigtenmig.blogspot.com/2007/09/nyan-thos-shravaka.html

Plug in Britain

"We are a non profit making organisation, set up to promote the development and use of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. We provide a forum that brings together all stakeholders to facilitate this initiative."

http://www.pluginbritain.com/

The Taff Trail

"The Taff Trail is a multi-purpose route between the Cardiff waterfront at Cardiff Bay in the South and the Market Town of Brecon in the North. 55 miles (88km) in length, it passes close to Pontypridd and Merthyr Tydfil and through a wide variety of urban and suburban landscapes of those towns and the open moorland of the Brecon Beacons. There are also many "green fingers" where the Taff Trail itself appears to bring the countryside into the town. The area is also rich in industrial archeology."

http://www.tafftrail.org.uk/trail.html

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

"There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. You can block off several hours for a single task if you need to, but by default you change what you're doing every hour."

"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in."

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

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