An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island: Read it for Free Online.

In the 1950s, a 50-year-old New Zealander named Tom Neale moved to a tiny island called Suwarrow (AKA Suvarov) in the Cook Islands. He was the only human inhabitant, and his story of survival is absolutely fascinating. I read Robinson Crusoe and was disappointed; An Island to Oneself is the real deal... (more)

Mad Professor

Cool Text

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own image created on the fly... (more)

Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator

Project Charts Can Boost Productivity

Human beings are sentient. We process information through our senses. Although we use all of our senses, the majority of us process information primarily through our visual senses. When we see things, we can understand them. This is why memory experts advocate turning everything, including numbers, into visual items that we can picture in our mind. Using techniques that help us visualize things helps us remember complex things quite easily. We make sense of them more rapidly and understand them more deeply... (more)

Open Loops: Project Charts Can Boost Productivity

Unrealistic American Expectations

During a recent conversation with one of my cousins (Thank you Mike) from the U.K. the topic of American expectations came up. He seemed to feel that many Americans were developing an almost adolescent insecurity. This was especially the case when Americans tried to understand how they are viewed by the rest of the world.

Elemental Truths: Unrealistic American Expectations

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The Unstoppable Power of Focus

Learning to focus on ONE THING is quite possibly one of the best things you can do to invest in yourself. This is probably one of THE MOST overlooked areas of personal development... (more)

The Unstoppable Power of Focus

Tracking the flow of household juices

Tony Blair announced that the UK will take bold steps to aggressively reduce their pollution output by undertaking a redesign of the current electric and gas grids. The heart of this proposed restructuring is a "smart meter" prototype by More Associates that will allow consumers to minutely monitor their energy use by appliance and wattage... (more)

Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

City installs rain gardens to cut runoff

SANDY CULLEN608-252-6137scullen@madison.comSoome residents along Adams Street have new gardens - compliments of the city of Madison - that do a lot more than look pretty.The picturesque prairie plants - purple cone flower, brown-eyed Susan and other native species - are hard at work in the terraces between the street and sidewalk... (more)

Wisconsin State Journal

Online Divorce is Taking Off in the U.K

August 18,2006 12:00 AM ESTDivorce-Online proves to be the popular option for UK consumers. (FVNEWSWIRE Aug 15, 2006) Los Angeles, CA (FV Newswire) - Online divorce continues to grow at phenomenal rate in UK.Getting a divorce using the internet has been a fact in the UK since September 1999, so it is hardly a new phenomenon, but compared with the number of divorces issued by high street law firms, it is still in effect a cottage industry... (more)

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Nova Scotia: Fish, fog and ferries

WOLFVILLE, Nova Scotia -- Ten minutes into our ferry ride and we're enshrouded in fog. Not some light summer mist, but a soup so thick we can barely see in front of us... (more)

Nova Scotia: Fish, fog and ferries