A weekly reminder of the very cheap (and sometimes cheerful) DVDs on eBay UK. Or get the full feed. It's almost certainly cheaper than a trip to the cinema and it means you get to snuggle up to loved one on the sofa. Plus at these prices you can pass them onto a charity shop or friend after you've watched them and keep spreading the love.
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(Almost) everyday the green peeps at Friends of the Earth give us a drop of enviro-wisdom. Most of them will save you cash too!
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One of life's truly free thinkers, Tim's postings on lifestyle design are always worth a read (as is the Four Hour Work Week).
Here's a snippet from his latest:
13 X-Mas Gifts That Can Change (or Save) Your LifePlaying Santa isn’t easy. (Credit: GarlandCannon) I dislike shopping, but I love finding the perfect gift. Finding that gift, though, gets harder with time. Those damn adults seem to already have everything. That includes me. More salt and pepper shakers? Nah. Alternate versions of the shirts I got last year? [...]
Peter Day's World of Business podcast is a great way to keep with current trends in business.
GlobalBiz: Entrepreneurs: 30 Nov 09Twenty years after the abrupt fading away of the communist era in central (or eastern) Europe, Peter Day hears from three people who’ve grasped the opportunities presented them by growing up in a new kind of society. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott
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In their weekly Manager Tools podcast, Mark and Mike give their (often highly opinionated!) thoughts on management:
High C Manager Simple Downfall - Part 1This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
The Kissaway Trail & Kurran And The Wolfnotes - Free MP3sOur two-for-none offer continues this week with a pair of unrelated but equally great tracks. First up, The Kissawy Trail return with Christmas bells, thundering drums and six minutes of epic indie balladry. [...] Read more!
The Simple Dollar is the result of one man's quest to put himself back on the financial straight and narrow. Catch up in full after the jump:
Happy Thanksgiving from The Simple DollarToday, I’m spending the day with my family, enjoying some turkey, taking a nap, playing a few games, and kibbitzing with people I love. Wherever you are today (whether you’re in the United States or not), take a moment to look at the good things in your life and ask yourself what you can do the [...]
Peter Day's World of Business podcast is a great way to keep with current trends in business.
InBiz: Unlimited Company: 26 Nov 09In a world where banks and conventional companies have taken a big battering in the recession, perhaps there are better ways of running an business. Peter Day listens to some people who are trying to do things completely differently. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time will bring out the autodidact in you as he explores the history of ideas covering the arts and sciences.
IOT: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 26 Nov 09Melvyn Bragg discusses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland. With Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin.
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books:
American Housewife, The by AnonymousThis cookbook and reference guide leads the American Housewife through how to make everything from Meat to Common Drinks, as well as helpful tips and tricks for any housewife! Also included in this fine text are sections on Cooking for The Sick, and how to make your own: Essences, Perfumes, Dyes and Soaps. This work also features an extensive section on The Art of Carving-Which covers anything you might need to carve! (Summary by Jennifer Stearns
Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda by Philips, Katherine
The poet Katherine Philips was called "The Matchless Orinda" in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and political. She was a staunch Royalist (a supporter of Charles I and his son during the English Civil Wars) and wrote poetic defenses of the monarchy. She was also part of a literary coterie, in which she and her friends had "code names." Philips herself was "Orinda," her husband "Antenor," and her friend Anne Owen "Lucasia." She is perhaps best known today for her passionate poems celebrating female friendship. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Exlovers Cover Chris Isaak's Wicked Game - Free MP3Old Daily Download favourites Exlovers just released a cover of Chris Isaak's 1989 classic 'Wicked Game'. [...] Read more!
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books:
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, SaintConfessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Man Overboard by Crawford, Francis MarionPeculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly enough, it seemed that the 'presence' of the missing twin continued to exist on board during the following weeks. For example, one extra set of silverware was found to be used after each meal, but nobody claimed to be using them. What then did happen that stormy night, and which brother, if indeed it was one of the brothers, was the man who went overboard? (Summary by Roger Melin)
A weekly reminder of the very cheap (and sometimes cheerful) DVDs on eBay UK. Or get the full feed. It's almost certainly cheaper than a trip to the cinema and it means you get to snuggle up to loved one on the sofa. Plus at these prices you can pass them onto a charity shop or friend after you've watched them and keep spreading the love.
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One of life's truly free thinkers, Tim's postings on lifestyle design are always worth a read (as is the Four Hour Work Week).
Here's a snippet from his latest:
The Benefits of Pissing People Off“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.†â€" Elbert Hubbard (source: uberzombie) Right alongside the cash and credit cards, I keep a number of strange things in my wallet. The largest is a folded-up page from the July 6, 2009 issue of Fortune magazine. In a profile, Scott Boras, widely regarded [...]
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Performance & Kiss In Cities - Two Free MP3sThere's definitely something rumbling in Manchester at the moment. No sooner had I got off the phone with the city's Egyptian Hip Hop, who just sent me their forthcoming double A-side (which is amazing), than these two tracks dropped in the inbox. Looks like the place is gradually shaking off that prolonged bout of Courteeneritis. Performance are a polished pop proposition, crafting big hooks for woozy dancefloors like it's 1989. Take singer Joe Stretch out of the threesome and you're left with Kiss In Cities, who take the glossy pop factor to the nth degree, although in this case we're talking Teena Marie rather than Jedward. Or as Discodust pointed out some kind of Cyndi Lauper / Alphabeat hybrid. Or early Whitney. Or - you get the idea. Download Performance's Reptile here (Right click and chose 'save as' if necessary. Please link-to don’t re-host) Download Kiss In Cities' U R My Girl here [Subscribe to The Daily Download]
