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What’s feng shui all about?
Feng shui, according to the web site “Absolutely Feng Shui,” is an “ancient Chinese metaphysical discipline” that studies “how mankind is affected…by the environment.”

Though thousands of years old, the principles of feng shui are still very much in use today. Like a lot of disciplines, mastery requires tremendous dedication. For those who just want to understand the basics, though, the word “placement” sums up feng shui nicely.

Not bad advice.

NextPath - 13 Things I Wish I Learned in College
College is a great experience that millions of students look forward to every year. I myself have been in college for a total of 6 years and have obtained a B.A. in communications as well as a MBA. After attending college I started working and realized that college does not prepare you for the real world. Here are some of the things that I should have learned in college so I would have been more prepared for my job after college.

Everyday Wonderland » 5 Ideas for Stressful Living
So, you want your life to be stressful? Didn’t think so, but it’s amazing how many people consistently apply habits and actions in their daily lives that guarantee stressful results. They repeat the same things over and over again, expecting different results, which is, if I recall correctly, the textbook definition of insanity. After hitting the same wall every day for 20 years, people think “okay, if I just really hammer it this time then maybe it suddenly won’t be there.”

One of the more absurd aspects of the ego is that it conditions you to actively seek negative results. It makes you think that what you want is peace, when its secret pleasure is always in conflict and negativity. In scientific experiments, a mouse quickly learns to avoid the choice that results in electric shock, while the ego-inflicted human being keeps choosing the same negative option over and over again, often through stubborn rationalization enabled by a general lack of awareness.

Does the birth control pill cause weight gain?
Does the birth control pill cause weight gain?

Amazing… string/fabric as a language.

Wired 15.01: Untangling the Mystery of the Inca
Incan civilization was a technological marvel. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1532, they found an empire that spanned nearly 3,000 miles, from present-day Ecuador to Chile, all served by a high-altitude road system that included 200-foot suspension bridges built of woven reeds. It was the Inca who constructed Machu Picchu, a cloud city terraced into a precarious stretch of earth hanging between two Andean peaks. They even put together a kind of Bronze Age Internet, a system of messenger posts along the major roads. In one day, Incan runners amped on coca leaves could relay news some 150 miles down the network.

Yet, if centuries of scholarship are to be believed, the Inca, whose rule began 2,000 years after Homer, never figured out how to write. It’s an enigma known as the Inca paradox, and for nearly 500 years it has stood as one of the great historical puzzles of the Americas. But now a Harvard anthropologist named Gary Urton may be close to untangling the mystery.

His quest revolves around strange, once-colorful bundles of knotted strings called khipu (pronounced KEY-poo). The Spanish invaders noticed the khipu soon after arriving but never understood their significance – or how they worked.

List your ambitions with the Goal Setting Toolkit - Lifehacker
The Success Begins Today blog posts a template for listing your 2007 personal goals and related tasks for maximum portability and visibility.

Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux.

Free online investment classes from Morningstar - Lifehacker
If one of your New Year’s resolutions this year was to become more financially savvy, then this series of free (yay!) classes from Morningstar, a leading investment firm, should fit the bill.

The classes are organized kind of like college courses: you can start with the 100 level if you’re new to this whole thing, and work your way up to the 500 level (portfolio stuff), or you can just skip around. At the end of each class are quizzes that you can take to earn points; these points can be redeemed for prizes, which personally makes the prospect of slogging through The Case for Dividends a little more appealing.

Hack Attack: Automatically download your favorite TV shows - Lifehacker
BitTorrent has been around for long enough that most people are aware of what a terrific tool it is for the TV lover. As clients like Azureus and Torrent keep getting stronger and more user friendly, it’s easier than ever to find and download your favorite TV shows on BitTorrent. But the fact is, relative to the easy television scheduling found in the DVR world, it could be a whole lot easier.

Geek to Live: Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools - Lifehacker
You can drop some serious cash on a fancy ring binder planner that includes a calendar, to do list and other forms for organizing your stuff. But when you do, you’re committing to the brand and forms offered by one system and one company. The D*I*Y Planner web site, however, offers an extensive library of PDF templates for refilling that can’t-live-without paper planner with just your printer and hole punch. Whether David Allen or Stephen Covey’s your guru, if you’re into Mind Mapping, book journaling, or storyboarding, the D*I*Y planner has something for you. (Cheap, paper/ink/printer required.)