Robs PlaceRobs PlaceRobs Place is a blog about how to live ethically for people who don’t really consider themselves to “activists”? You really don’t have to live in a tree or go to demonstrations to be an activist - the small choices we make every single day can and do Articles
Best lifehacks & GTD resource in the known universe
2007-10-10 02:49:00 Getting Things Done, personal productivity, lifehacks - we love them all! In this post I regularly scour the web to give you the ultimate links on a regular basis. Check these out: Click for “robs - GTD/personal productivity”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Subscribe in a reader Share This More About: Universe , Resource , Lifehacks , Univers
Whats pulp-ular in the world of sci-fi?
2007-10-09 07:44:00 Here’s a regular post covering some of the best classic sci-fi artwork to be found on Flickr. Not only that but the best pulp sci-fli links on del.icio.us as well! Click for “flickr sci-fi covers”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Click for “del.icio.us pulp sci-fi”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Check out these videos too: Subscribe in a ... More About: World , The World , Pulp
Pandoras Box by EC Tubb
2007-10-08 00:59:00 I’m currently reading Pandoras Box by Edwin Charles Tubb (October 15, 1919 -). He’s a British author, primarily of science fiction. He has also written under about 20 pseudonyms, including Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban (with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), Gregory Kern, King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Mike Lantry, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon (with H J Campbell) and Edward Thomson. He is best known for his Dumarest saga. He contributed to Space 1999. Michael Moorcock wrote “His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” The book itself is a 1954 reprint but this is no hoary relic of a bygone era. By 1954 Tubb had begun to develop the style and themes which he was to perfect into a unique blend of vigorous action and human insight, exemplified in his famous “Dumarest of Terra” series. Many of the ideas in this novel are seminal, even prophetic. Tubb was ...
Racey photographs
2007-10-01 07:30:00 Here’s a regular post showing images from some of my various races. Lucky for you I don’t actually feature on most of them! My favorite race is without doubt the Great North Run … so expect more of these photos then average! Click for “Flickr GNR photos”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Subscribe in a reader Share ... More About: Photographs
My 2007 Great North Run
2007-09-30 15:00:00 Check out some photographs of the event! The BUPA Great North Run is the world’s most popular half marathon road running event. Participants run between Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields. The run was devised by former Olympic 10,000 m bronze medallist and BBC Sport commentator Brendan Foster. Foster was inspired after running in the ...
10 Easy Steps to Save Thousands of $$$
2007-09-29 21:18:00 Everyone has a carbon footprint- it’s your own personal measure of how much carbon dioxide you create and how much you contribute to climate change. But you don’t need to build a zero-carbon home to make an impact or even feed some cows of garlic to have ... More About: Recycle , Reduce , Save , Easy , Steps
I am Iron Man
2007-09-28 04:57:00 Here’s the trailer for the 2008 Iron Man movie. Starring Robert Downey Jr ., Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard: Based on the Marvel Comics Character; Billionaire playboy industrialist Tony Stark makes weapons for the U.S. government. While out on a field test of one of his inventions, he is wounded, captured and forced to make weapons ...
The moral majority is in revolt
2007-09-23 23:40:00 Britain’s law-abiding majority is a myth. A recent study found that 61% of Britons admitted to such dodgy practices as pilfering office stationery, padding insurance claims and paying builders in cash. But if the respectable middle classes really are this lawless I suspect it has more to do with resentment than greed. For the truth ... More About: Moral , Mora , Revolt
Why too much populism is bad for America
2007-09-21 23:37:00 If there is one thing that all today’s presidential candidates would agree on, it is that Washington has grown deaf to the wishes of the America n people. This notion has become a staple of every campaign speech, yet in reality, the opposite is true. Far from ignoring public opinion, their badly weakened president and ...
Germany beats the UK on climate change
2007-09-19 23:08:00 The £3bn widening of a stretch of the M6 tells you a lot about Government spending priorities. It is 40 times what is being spent on the low-carbon buildings programme aimed at boosting take-up of renewable energies: £3bn spent on railways, solar panels, wind turbines or insulation might have been more sensible. But like ... More About: Germany , Climate Change , Climate , Change , Beats
A solution to the class war on tax
2007-09-17 23:29:00 A new class war has broken out between the middle classes and the super-rich and it’s tending to focus on tax treatment. But the problem with the super-rich now filling up London’s more desirable areas isn’t that they pay too little tax, it is that the rest of us pay too much. Anyone on any ... More About: Class , Solution
Binge Alcohol Drinking and Suicide Deaths by State (SWIVEL)
2007-09-17 18:11:00 From Swivel: This graph, by Swiveler unk_variable, shows the relationship between binge alcohol drinking and suicide deaths by state. While one does not necessarily cause the other, there seems to be a correlation between depression and drinking alcohol or using other illicit drugs. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “research ... More About: Alcohol , Drinking , Suicide , Deaths , State
Article round-up
2007-09-16 07:34:00 Here’s a few articles that caught my eye recently …. Click for “spiked / open democracy feeds”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Leave a comment below Discuss this post in the forum Subscribe in a reader Share This More About: Article , Round Up , Round , Artic
Our misguided faith in non-political experts
2007-09-15 07:20:00 One of the more depressing things about us is the way we are so overawed by experts. Fully 55% of you, according to a recent poll in the Daily Telegraph, applaud Gordon Brown’s decision to bring non-political experts into his ministry; only 17% think it a bad idea. What naive faith in the idea of ... More About: Faith , Political , Experts , Guid , Politic
Activism links from del.icio.us
2007-09-14 11:10:00 What is del.icio.us? del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s. You can use del.icio.us to: Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community. Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s ... More About: Activism , Links
Paris Hilton: signs of returning sanity
2007-09-13 07:02:00 How do you explain the phenomenon that is Paris Hilton . Here is a woman who has never shown a talent for anything beyond shopping and going to nightclubs, yet still she is wildly, ridiculously, unbelievably famous. The heiress’s notoriety began a few years ago when she unwittingly starred in a blurry sex tape posted on ... More About: Signs
What?s happening on usenet?
2007-09-11 06:32:00 Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through the Google Groups web interface, or by e-mail. Yahoo! Groups is a similar service from Yahoo! that provides electronic mailing lists. ... More About: Usenet
Inhumane healthcare
2007-09-09 20:48:00 If any doubts remained about the cruelty and injustice of America’s Heal thcare system they have surely been banished by Sicko. Michael Moore’s new film reveals the appalling plight of the nearly 50 million Americans who lack health insurance, and the financial strains experienced by those whose inadequate cover leaves them on the brink of ...
The misguided loyalty of the president?s men
2007-09-08 07:01:00 The Bush administration is under fire from yet another old employee. The critic this time is the former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona. Addressing a recent congressional committee, the man who held the post of the “nation’s doctor” between 2002 and 2006, alleged that he had been instructed to mention the president at least ... More About: President , Loyalty , The President , Resident , Guid
Beloved or Bloodsport (SWIVEL)
2007-09-07 08:42:00 Sources: Pet-abuse.com / SWIVEL Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback, Michael Vick faces federal charges related to a dog fighting ring allegedly run from his property in Surry, VA. Vick, who has been asked to stay away from the Falcon’s training camp while the National Football League investigates these charges, has reportedly been offered a plea bargain, which ... More About: Belo , Beloved
A polluted shade of green
2007-09-06 02:36:00 Once the workshop of the world, Britain becoming a master of turning something into nothing. A welter of new companies has sprung up to collect money from conscientious travellers keen to offset the greenhouse gases they generate while flying. The Carbon Trust reckons the market is growing ... More About: Green
Old age is catching up with America
2007-09-05 08:26:00 The weird thing about the presidential campaign is that none of the candidates are addressing one of the biggest dilemmas they would face in office: how to adjust to America ’s ageing society. Even Washington’s think tanks - which are meant to expand public debate by saying things politicians can’t. Yet this is more than just a ... More About: Old Age
Prison destroys communities
2007-09-04 22:02:00 It’s not hard to figure out why Americans think sending wrong-doers to jail is such a good idea. The massive increase in the prison population from 380,000 in 1975 to 2.2 million today overlaps with an equally stunning decline in crime: during the Nineties, the homicide rate ... More About: Prison , Communities , Unit
How God made the world in 6 days
2007-09-04 04:01:00 Did you know dinosaurs lived peacefully alongside Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, some 6,000 years ago? Or that the T. rex and the stegosaurus survived the Great Flood aboard Noah’s Ark - and that the same flood carved out the Grand Canyon? Such is ... More About: World , The World , Made , Days
USA says Britain can keep its CCTV cameras
2007-09-03 10:01:00 America should emulate Britain by expanding the use of surveillance cameras. So proposes Senator Joe Lieberman, who cites the effective response of the UK police in the wake of the recent failed terrorist attacks, and who believes that they can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy. The senator’s intentions are noble, but America ... More About: Cameras
George?s green BS
2007-09-02 22:11:00 We’re used to Bush making visionary speeches that amount to nothing but the one he gave on the eve of the G8 summit in Germany sounded genuinely ground-breaking. Here was the US President, famously sceptical of global warming, not only admitting the world has a serious problem but even inviting the world’s 15 richest ... More About: Green , George
The globalisation of the english language
2007-09-02 04:09:00 Last year Jacques Chirac pledged to fight the spread of the English language across the world after walking out of an EU summit because a French business leader committed the grave offence of speaking in English. He said at the time: “We fight for our language… I was profoundly shocked to see a Frenchman express ... More About: English Language , Language , Globalisation , Alisa
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
2007-09-01 10:09:00 God Is Not Great : The Case Against Religion by Christopher Hitchens The “anti-God industry” has produced another addition to its groaning bookstall. After Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris comes Christopher Hitchens, the latest fire-and-brimstone atheist, with the most rabid atheistic primer yet. Religion, says Hitchens, is: “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, ...
Stop Plan Colombia
2007-08-31 10:08:00 Click the chart for a larger image What’s the best way to make enemies, waste money and achieve nothing? Simple: it’s called Plan Colombia . Since its inception in 1999, this US programme has cost $5bn and led to the spraying of herbicide over an area of Andean farmland the size of Delaware and Rhode ... More About: Stop , Plan Colombia
Weak leaders mean healthy economies
More articles from this author:2007-08-30 21:56:00 How does Cameron plan to reconcile the strong government intervention necessary to mitigate climate change with the key Conservative chakras of free enterprise, consumer choice and market liberty. Cameron has turned green faster than the Incredible Hulk. For the first five years of his political adulthood, he barely mentioned the environment. Notoriously, he even voted ... More About: Healthy , Leaders , Lead , Leader , Heal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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