"I'm a young, feminist atheist who can't bake a cupcake. Why am I addicted to the shiny, happy lives of these women?"

"...wenn man älter wird, weißt Du Hamburg, dann giert man nach Licht, nach dem Blau des Himmels. Jetzt haben wir November, seit Tagen schifft es, der Himmel über Dir ist dicht bewölkt, man kann die Sonne hinter dieser grauen Suppe nicht einmal erahnen. Und ich weiß, das bleibt jetzt so, bis April."

"...a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less."

"So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover they've ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace they've ever had, with challenging work, rewards for talent, initiative, and professional development, an excellent work/life balance, and good pay. But both of those options demand a lot from you. Besides, your lover (or employee) will stay only as long as she wants to under those systems, and you want to keep her even when she doesn't want to stay. How do you pin her to your side, irrevocably, permanently, and perfectly legally? You create a sick system."

"What happened to my bonus? What happened to my job? What happened to my country? Why can't it all go the way it's supposed to go? You mean having a kid won't solve my marriage problems? Why don't these drugs make me feel better? Where's that goddamn waiter with my salad? Have you seen the stupid weather today? Is this really all there is?"

"Our project is a true portrait of Britain created by photographing 1,000 people. We stopped everyone who crossed our path on the streets of London, excluding nobody, asking the same question more than fifteen hundred times."

"From the Guilty Secrets survey by Spread the Word, the top ten books that people say that they've read but haven't."

"Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours."

"The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It's well know the strictest of them don't use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm with manual tools and ride in a horse and buggy. (...) Yet Amish lives are anything but anti-technological. In fact on my several visits with them, I have found them to be ingenious hackers and tinkers, the ultimate makers and do-it-yourselfers and surprisingly pro technology."

"Ich glaube nicht, dass uns der Himmel auf den Kopf fallen wird, wenn es Zeitungen irgendwann nicht mehr geben sollte. Natürlich ist es verdammt traurig, große Institutionen sterben zu sehen, vor allem wenn man mit ansehen muss, wie talentierte und engagierte Menschen ihre Jobs und Verantwortung verlieren. Dennoch glaube ich, dass diese Entwicklung in vielerlei Hinsicht ein fröhlicher Moment für den Journalismus werden kann."

"Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be."

"MiniTask is a free, fast and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos more efficiently. It supports features like drag 'n' drop reorder, alarm timers, printing of pretty task sheets, copying tasks from and to other applications etc."

"nothing seems out of the ordinary when you first look at Life Clock. upon closer inspection, you may notice the numbers seem a little high. this is because one rotation of this clock is equal to the average human lifespan."

"Moms who tweet: find, follow, lead, learn, love and share"

"...because we learn more from our mistakes"

must see... great photo story.

"WebUrbanist blog collective writers are interested in all things urban - from urban design to subversive art and strange architecture."

"People in Order's Age is part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1. "

a freakin' perfect video loop for office flat screens

"Wozu noch ins Büro gehen, wenn man dank drahtloser Technologie überall arbeiten kann? In San Francisco lässt sich die Zukunft der Arbeitswelt schon heute besichtigen."

"There's this unbelievable cute girl across the room working on her Apple notebook. No attempt at making eye contact (...) worked so far and while considering possible strategies, I check out my iTunes for the right soundtrack to this morning..."

"Teenagers and young adults - the so-called Generation Y - have watched with horror as their parents worked punishing hours in their scramble for money and status. Now, as this group go in search of jobs, they have different priorities."

"Pictures of other people's parties from Flickr."