* R[a/u]PTURE *

If you can slow down when all around you are speeding up, then you’re one of us. Be proud that you are one of us and not one of them. For they are fast, and we are slow. There are those that would urge us to speed. We resist!  

We shall not flag or fail. We shall slow down in the office, and on the roads. We  shall slow down with growing confidence when all those around us are in a shrill state of hyperactivity (signifying nothing). We shall defend our state of calm, whatever the cost may be. We shall slow down in the fields and in the streets, we shall slow down in the hills, we shall never surrender! 

Why? Because if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly. Some are born to slowness—others have it thrust upon them. And still others know that lying in bed with a morning cup of tea is the supreme state for mankind.   

I am really interested in this idea. I am planning to write one of my research papers on this topic.

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder of Creative Commons.

The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similar jobs, the more their personalities seem to diverge.

If he and Dr. Schmitt are right, then men and women shouldn’t expect to understand each other much better anytime soon. Things could get confusing if the personality gap widens further as the sexes become equal. But then, maybe it was that allure of the mysterious other that kept Mars and Venus together so long on the savanna.

The New Yorker Conference, “Stories from the Near Future,” took place on May 8 and 9, 2008. Here is an archive of videos from the event.

These days I have no time to read novels,poems… I feel the physical need to open a book with the desire to read it from cover to cover..but for the first time I am trying to force myself to concentrate on the things I have to do -there is so much academic stuff to cover that if I take some books for the free time (which actually does not really exist) I will just explode. However, I found another way to satisfy my need of fiction in my life;) this blog - Just a reader- post quotations from books that the blog owner is currently reding. It is some kind of quotation diary - it is exactly what I have always wanted to do but never found the time.

So, when I need some fiction in my daily routine, I will click on this site and read some of the quotations there. Of course, maybe each of us would choose different quotations from the same book, but I hope to find some that I really like!

Which are your simple pleasures? Isn’t it at the end that these are the things we miss most?

I miss having coffee in the morning with my girls, drinking tea with them,having our ladies nights! I miss going to school with Irinka. Reading an interesting novel feeling no guilt when I actually have tons of studying:)

Life is short! Lets fill it in with simple pleasures!

This is one of the best sites ever! It compiles so much information about books, articles,etc. It provides the links to famous magazines, newspapers… Arts & Letters daily was recommended to me four years ago from the person who helped me learn english for such a short time. He was the professor who was teaching me English in Plovdiv. He said that this site is all you have to read to become proficient in the English language. Check it out and let me know what you think!

If you have some free time while drinking your coffee,check out all kinds of weird images from around the world!

I really hate this idea! I love books so much and cannot believe that people will simply cut the books to turn them into art. I personally took a photo of a similar thing, although not to such an extreme,because these books can still be used- the photo was taken in the Open Society Archives (2008),but I will upload it in a seperate post.