Simone. 23 years old, male, Italian.
Totally self-absorbed, and yet totally unselfish.
Full of joy, empty of worries.
Unknown to many.
I contribute to Black and White
Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate multi-tasker: an accomplished scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. If you want to be a Renaissance Man (or Renaissance Woman), you can learn a lot from how Leonardo da Vinci lived and thought.
You don’t really need anything else in life.
Happy Holidays from Google!, $20 million given to charities for all of us! Awesome.
jjae:
Smartest Dogs: Moscow’s Stray Dogs
Joel usually shares stuff on Google Reader that’s a little over my head - really super dense articles and studies on physics and politics, but every now and then he’ll find something for me that doesn’t require the use of all my brain cells. Ironically, he could probably just do his Google Reader sharing with these dogs instead …
Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The four-legged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding the Moscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown, they demonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog, skills. Those skills can include “the hunt for schawarma” for example, the popular eastern cuisine dish among Muscovites.
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Click the image to see a larger image and read what this ad from Amnesty International says. Full text:
“My camp is my home, and the men here are part of my family. I don’t want to let them die by the hands of militiamen. So I made a decision in order to keep the men out of danger, I get the firewood myself. That is my gift for them; to face rape every day.”
Learn more about the atrocities women face in Darfur:
Stop Rape Now: UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict
Darfur— Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences
because not all football fields or race tracks are paved in gold…
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Playpumps
For kids in many rural parts of Africa, the colorful PlayPump is the first playground equipment they’ve ever seen. When they give a push and jump onboard for their first ride, smiles of wonder break out on their faces.
The fun of whirling in a circle is just part of the amazement. This incredible invention doesn’t just change their playtime, it changes their lives.
As the merry-go-round spins, it pumps clean water up from deep underground and stores it in a huge tank. People are welcome to come and help themselves to the water.Yes please. More wonderful inventions that make the world a better place <3
Great sites for freelancers:
I’m a freelance transcriptionist (betcha never heard of such a thing), and these are some of the sites I use to get work. It’s pretty groovy. If you have a skill you can freelance with (writing, programming, data entry, website building, etc.), I’d check these out. Most sites have a limit on how many jobs you can bid on per week or per month unless you sign up for the “premium package” which, of course, have fees attached.
- Guru
- Elance
- oDesk - This one is free for providers (freelancers) because the people seeking workers pay all the fees. This is my favorite.
- LiveWork - This is a beta site so there’s not much work here yet.
I’m able to bring in a $200-$300 each month just by doing a few projects a month.
Excerpts:
I remember the first time I had sex—I still have the receipt. The girl was alive, as far as I could tell, she was warm and she was better than nothing. She cost me £20
The great thing about sex with whores is the excitement and variety. If you say you’re enjoying sex with the same person after a couple of years, you’re either a liar or on something. Of all the sexual perversions, monogamy is the most unnatural. Most of our affairs run the usual course. Fever. Boredom. Trapped. This explains much of the friction in our lives—love being the delusion that one woman differs from another. But with brothels there is always the exhilaration of not knowing what you’re going to get.
The problem with normal sex is that it leads to kissing and pretty soon you’ve got to talk to them. Once you know someone well the last thing you want to do is screw them.
You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
A MUST READ
This website is amazing.
krankmills:(via mariadiaz)
Great article.
“There is evidence that the California justice system does not hold that ‘notoriety, lawyers’ fees and professional stigma’ are an appropriate sentence for child rape.
But hey, he wasn’t allowed to pick up his Oscar in person! For the love of all that’s holy, hasn’t the man suffered enough?”
This is a really powerful (long) article that got me thinking. I never really thought about the conflict in Afghanistan from this perspective. I don’t mean I’m on one side or another, I just want peace and out soldiers safe. If you have the patience and interest, read it. Pay attention to the detail and the lifestyle of these people. Let it sink in.
Sergio Valente put it best when he said, ‘How you look tells the world how you feel.’
47. Like cars and stereo equipment, clothes are not really ‘invest-ments,’ because they cannot appreciate. They’re clothes.
