Travel Inspiration: The Longest Way

On Novermber the 9th, 2007, Christoph Rehage set off walking from Beijing on a journey of a lifetime. His epic travels of over 4000km took him acroos China, through cities and deserts, all on foot. Why? “It makes you own your way. Whenever I walk somewhere, not only do I remember the way, but I also feel like I have a legitimate reason to be there,” he says. “I visit a place by train, and I’m a tourist. I walk to the same place by foot, and the place is suddenly mine. We belong together, and I don’t feel like an alien anymore.”

If You Flip A Photo Of Bats Hanging Upside Down...

... it looks like they're having an incredible dance off. 



Source: The Poke

Don't Troll A Cat

   Because you won't win...

54 JOKES In Four Minutes!

4 minutes of pure unadulterated jokes. Most of them nerdy, all of them awful. I'm happy. 



This is Hank Green from the VlogBrothers, possibly the greatest YouTubers out there. 

An Assortment of Exceptionally Good Words

Disclaimer: check the language at the bottom right of the picture, before casually using!

                                                                                                                 GERMAN

                                                                                                                 JAPANESE

                                                                                               ENGLISH, ORIGINS GREEK

                                                                                                                 ENGLISH

                                                                                                                 ENGLISH

                                                                                             BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

                                                                                                                 ENGLISH

Source: Word Porn

The Future Of Reading?

As someone who refuses the kindle, (second hand book shop every time), I am not saying that this will replace books. I just find the idea of reading in such a different way pretty exciting...

Spritz is a text streaming technology that fires words at you one at a time, at a chosen number of words per minute. The result? Well for me, at the moment a minor eye and head ache, but the potential for increased productivity is enormous. At the higher speeds it's not relaxing (yet at least), but I would find it seriously useful for work. I can see this kind of technology taking off in a big way amongst business people. 

I find that at 600 wpm I am still saying the words in my head, just really quickly. Does everyone read like this? When you first learn another language you often translate to/from your mother tongue in your head. After a while, your brain makes the transition to processing the meaning of words, rather than using a word in a given language. It would be cool if with something like Spritz you made the transition to not reading the words in your head. 

Anyway, I really recommend checking out the demo. Love it ? Hate it? Let me know what you think. 

Happy Fingers

Finger + pen = effortless entertainment.



 Perfect for keeping you awake in those slow meetings or lectures. 









Source: AnOther

Cat Island

There is a little island off the coast of Japan called Tashirojima, or cat island, where the felines outnumber the humans. 

Fubirai

An ancient belief that to feed a cat brings prosperity, has allowed the stray population to boom. 

Fubirai

Unsurprisingly dogs have been outlawed and it is more or less prohibited to bring one on to the island. 

Fubirai

Non-cat lovers have long since left the island and the locals treat the cats lovingly. In fact there is a cat shrine there!

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All in all it's a pretty good place to be a cat... a pretty bad place to be a mouse. 

Fubirai

Evolution of Hip-Hop Dancing

Aaah, I miss the nineties!!

Scrat

How Wolves Change Rivers

A beautiful insight into the delicate, yet ever-changing balance of nature...
Also a nice indicator of how bad-ass wolves are. 

Say What You Really Mean

With the absence of body language and tone of voice, written communication can sometimes leave our intentions unclear. But it doesn't have to be so...
Here are 8 new punctuation marks that could make texts, letters and emails a whole lot more straightforward.

















Source: College Humour

Celebs that look like...

Sources: Kulfoto, Izismile

The Original Pie Chart

Source: Hellou

Getting a little funky...

This ridiculous song and video is pretty much a guaranteed grump-buster. Especially if you add that killer dance move. You've gotta love the seventies...