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An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements

Here's an updated list of slipper patterns that features plenty of styles to choose from. I've sorted them into three groups for easier browsing (sewn, crochet, knit). Enjoy!

Inspiring words about how to live our lives more fully and freely by Erma Bombeck.

My brain almost exploded when I stumbled onto these lovely photographs by UK photographer . Such a perfect mix of light and water, they almost look like candy. See many more images in her . (via )

20 scary old school surgical tools that surgeons used to use on patients.

An explaination of life

TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. In his talk, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercis...

TED Theme It's perhaps the most universal human yearning: to be happy. But this simplest of goals so often eludes us. We're not terribly good, we humans, at knowing what we want. "The Pursuit of Happiness" was 2004's conference theme, but TED spea...

(22 February 1788 - 21 September 1860) was a best known for his book, ; in it, he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied , continually seeking satisfaction. Influenced by Eastern thought, he maintained that the "truth was re...