The 1961 documentary Bookbinders, part of the America at Work series by the AFL-CIO, which frames the book production process with enough romanticism to make today’s most notorious “better-nevers” nod along like the bobblehead dogs on the dashboard of a New York cabbie.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/11/bookbinding-1967-documentary/

How is the world on the other side you bored go-getters? I know that a time can come when you just don’t know what else to do? There comes a time in life when you just don’t want to go offline because you are addicted to the internet but you don’t know what to do because you seem to have surfed almost all of it.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/unusual-websites-for-bored-people/

http://www.worldometers.info/

Life in a refugee camp. The images of sprawling, smoke filled tent cities should be familiar to anyone who watches the nightly television news. However, reality of life in such a place — day after day, year after year — is almost unimaginable for most of us. For this reason, in this photo set, we will also take a closer look at what goes on inside a refugee camp.

Sparked is championing the idea of “microvolunteering’ where nonprofit organisations ask people to complete small tasks online by creating “challenges.” Volunteers like myself then get the chance to participate in the challenges that match my skills and the type of causes I support.

Read Ben Teoh’s take on Sparked »

At some point in 2010, Alex Noriega, illustrator from Barcelana, was going through a crisis due to some isues at work. He decided to start a blog as a way of trying to find what he was doing wrong. He wanted to put on paper all that he had learned in life as simple as possible and try to see if what was happening around him made any sense. And it didn’t Still, his work is great and we are happy to present it to you!

funstuffcafe.com/stuff-no-one-told-you-simple-truths-of-life

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This article covers just about every htaccess “trick” in the book, and is easily the site’s most popular offering.

a to z of wordpress .htaccess hacks

The .htaccess file allows you to easily improve your blog’s security, reduce bandwith and increase usability. In this post we’re going to look at 26 .htaccess hacks, from A to Z. If you enjoy this post then please grab the WPShout RSS feed!

“Mn, Na, Mn, Na… Ba, D, P, D, P…”

http://popperfont.net/2011/11/14/the-manganese-sodium-barium-deuterium-phosphorus-song-or-how-i-tried-to-use-this-awesome-video-for-a-science-lecture/