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• Del Tango, El Amor y Otros Demonios: One Tanda, Two Tandas, Three Tandas…
  "First, let me talk about the dreaded number of tandas a night. And here Ⅰ have to say that Ⅰ have surprised myself about the fact that Ⅰ really have transformed my point of view, and have come to place quality way, way, way above quantity. Of course, Ⅰ would rather be dancing than not… after all, Ⅰ love to dance. But if I'm given the choice, Ⅰ really prefer to have just a few really great, high quality tandas, than a full night of luke-warm, passionless, jerky or non-musical ones. And just to add to this feeling, Ⅰ have also come to see my attendance to Milongas much more as a social happening: an opportunity to greet friends and talk; an opportunity to listen to beautiful music; and opportunity to enjoy myself watching people dance and connect (something Ⅰ love to do)."
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• 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them | Zen Habits
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• Espresso Porn
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• Muxtape & RIAA
  Every now and then there is a new, innovative service out there. Can't the RIAA not just leave them alone?
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• Hair Care – Table of Contents
  "The World of Hair

  an on-line reference by Dr. John Gray,
  provided by the P&G Hair Care Research Center."

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• Men's Long Hair Hyperboard – Links
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• twine invisible users spamming my Inbox?
  WTF? Ghosts now at twine?
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• Calculate your BMI – Metric BMI Calculator
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• How to Meditate
  "It is hard to pick up meditation from just reading an article, but Ⅰ would like to share a few basic pointers about what meditation involves. No matter what form of meditation you follow, the basic shared principle is to quieten your thoughts and mind. We can sit in a chair for many hours, but, if thoughts continually pass through our mind then our meditation will be ineffective. Ultimately the aim is to have a mind free of thoughts. It is in this inner silence that we can experience a consciousness of real peace.

  At first glance, people may find the concept of stopping thoughts very difficult. If you try sitting silent for a while, you will probably be inundated with thoughts. When giving meditation classes, the difficulty of controlling the thoughts is a common experience. However, if you sincerely try, you can learn to reduce the power of thoughts over yourself.

  These are some tips Ⅰ suggest for controlling your thoughts:"

  (tags: meditation health relaxation howto self-improvement tutorial meditate toread via:mento.info)
• The Neural Buddhists – New York Times
  "This new wave of research will not seep into the public realm in the form of militant atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism.

  If you survey the literature (and I’d recommend books by Newberg, Daniel J. Siegel, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Jonathan Haidt, Antonio Damasio and Marc Ⅾ. Hauser if you want to get up to speed), you can see that certain beliefs will spread into the wider discussion.

  First, the self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships. Second, underneath the patina of different religions, people around the world have common moral intuitions. Third, people are equipped to experience the sacred, to have moments of elevated experience when they transcend boundaries and overflow with love. Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is."

  (tags: science religion brain buddhism consciousness via:mento.info)
• Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
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• Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
  "Topic maps originated in work on the merging of electronic indexes and so are very much a subject-based classification technique. In fact, topic maps are organized around topics, and each topic is used to represent some real-world thing. In the terminology we used above, topics represent concepts, the same way terms in an indexing language refer to concepts. In topic maps the concepts are called subjects, and the standard emphatically states that a subject can be "anything whatsoever". We will return to the consequences of this later on."
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• OECD Factbook 2008
  (tags: visualization statistics world economics via:mento.info)
• Michael Nielsen » The Future of Science
  (tags: science collaboration research future social culture open via:mento.info)

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• Hauptseite – Zunft[wissen]
  "Zunft[wissen], die "Wiki der guten Dinge" lebt von Ihren Beiträgen und von Ihrer Expertise! Zunft[wissen] ist Mitmachen. Schreiben Sie das, was Sie hier finden und lesen möchten. Es ist wirklich einfach – wie das genau geht, finden Sie hier. Dabei haben wir keinen überzogenen Anspruch: Wir möchten Kundensouveränität fördern, hierbei sollen Wissen und Erfahrungen um gute Dinge auf diesen Seiten virtuell und beständig abrufbar gebündelt werden. Da reicht ein Name mit einer Adresse (im Internet oder an einem Ort) – ergänzt um ein Satz was angeboten wird und warum "es" in Ihren Augen gut ist. Fertig. Mit uns gemeinsam haben schon zahlreiche "Mitstreiter für die guten Dinge" an dieser Wikipedia mitgearbeitet. So stehen fast 12.500 Seiten und beinahe 9.500 Artikel zur Verfügung, es wurden 2,5 Millionen mal Seiten mit mehr als 15 Millionen Visions aufgerufen, erfreulich viele in Zunft[wissen] vorhandene Begriffe, Unternehmensporträts und Artikel haben es auf vorderste Platzierungen bei Goog
  (tags: wiki nachhaltigkeit via:mento.info)
• Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity
  (tags: ubiquity firefox mozilla mashup web2.0 via:mento.info)
• 12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today | Zen Habits
  "Rest is as important as work. In the traditional model, people worked long hours to accomplish as much as possible and get ahead in their careers. However, there is a high rate of burnout and job dissatisfaction and employee turnover in this model."
  (tags: gtd productivity work zenhabits working web2.0 tips workplace organization via:mento.info)
• The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.
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• Free Will versus the Programmed Brain: Scientific American
  (tags: ethics freewill science psychology via:mento.info)
• 30 Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers | Twine
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• Bacteria Power: Future For Clean Energy Lies In 'Big Bang' Of Evolution
  Amid mounting agreement that future clean, "carbon-neutral", energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria.
  (tags: chemistry bacteria energy cyanobacteria solar science via:mento.info)

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