"The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need. Since it is too late for me to learn these lessons, I will discharge my unfulfilled duty by dishing them out to you. They will be stated in order of increasing controversiality."

"Look, this may not be palatable, Gareth, and I keep trying to come up with a better way to put it, but the simplicity of things, at least from my perspective is this: George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."

"Even though all of the students were being paid upon completion, those who thought about the questions abstractly were much more likely to procrastinate--and in fact some never got around to the assignment at all. By contrast, those who were focused on the how, when and where of doing the task e-mailed their responses much sooner, suggesting that they hopped right on the assignment rather than delaying it."

"When you have the choice that either surplus food is put to good use like this or goes to landfill, then it's a bit of a no-brainer really ...It's just about putting the mechanisms in place to make it happen."

"The hardest thing I have to do every day is to decide what to ignore."

"New research from Dundee University suggests learning philosophy raises children's IQ by up to 6.5 points and improves their emotional intelligence. ... He said: 'The critical thing about it is that it allows the youngster to move to a level where inform

"5. Act friendly. We think we act because of the way we feel, but often we feel because of the way we act. So act the way you want to feel. This is uncannily effective—just try it." Existential!

Pussy comes to mind.

"As a computer programmer in a new apartment, I've taken the same approach to setting up my home as I would developing a software application: with a focus on usability."

An article answering several questions from a monogamous viewpoint about polyamory.

Form PGRDF/1.03, for people met recently at parties in whom a more-than-just-friendly interest has been mutually discovered and disclosed.

Some handy hints for life.