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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has moved 11,200 of their crew members to Gmail as part of their Google Apps Premier Edition deployment Official Google Enterprise Blog: Flying into the cloud
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Real-life Superman pushes car out of the way of an oncoming train.

And what have you done lately?

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Impala not on the menu today
Stunning pics and bizarre scenario!
Click through for the full set and story.
via Pictured: Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope’s life… and play with him instead | Mail Online

Impala not on the menu today

Stunning pics and bizarre scenario!

Click through for the full set and story.

via Pictured: Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope’s life… and play with him instead | Mail Online

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Wow, this timelapse video of the Hudson River plane rescue is stunning!

(it’s quite long, so let it stream a little before watching it)

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Cool pic of the day: 
Who’s in charge now?

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icraftwebsites:

growthchart:

inothernews:

AS ONE, FOR MANY Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton flanked President Obama as they left the Oval Office on Saturday after announcing a fund-raising effort for Haiti, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.  (Photo: Stephen Crowley / the New York Times)
The fundraising website is here.

Cool pic of the day:

Who’s in charge now?

via:

icraftwebsites:

growthchart:

inothernews:

AS ONE, FOR MANY Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton flanked President Obama as they left the Oval Office on Saturday after announcing a fund-raising effort for Haiti, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.  (Photo: Stephen Crowley / the New York Times)

The fundraising website is here.

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RIP:  Kim Peek - the original Rain Man has died
From Wikipedia: “According to Peek’s father, Fran, Peek was able to memorize things from the age of 16-20 months. He read books, memorized them, and then placed them upside down on the shelf to show that he had finished reading them, a practice he maintained. He read a book in about an hour, and remembered almost everything he had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in subjects ranging from history and literature, geography, and numbers to sports, music, and dates. His reading technique consisted of reading the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye and in this way he could read two pages at time with a rate of about 8-10 seconds per page. It is believed he could recall the content of at least 12,000 books from memory.”
Read more here: Kim Peek - Wikipedia

RIP:  Kim Peek - the original Rain Man has died

From Wikipedia: “According to Peek’s father, Fran, Peek was able to memorize things from the age of 16-20 months. He read books, memorized them, and then placed them upside down on the shelf to show that he had finished reading them, a practice he maintained. He read a book in about an hour, and remembered almost everything he had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in subjects ranging from history and literature, geography, and numbers to sports, music, and dates. His reading technique consisted of reading the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye and in this way he could read two pages at time with a rate of about 8-10 seconds per page. It is believed he could recall the content of at least 12,000 books from memory.”

Read more here: Kim Peek - Wikipedia

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Mail & Guardian’s ZA News

Puppetry & satire at it’s best

Watch some more here: ZA News

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Google Fastflip

I love Google’s new toy … http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

It’s *fast* - a really fast way to scan the news, headlines and articles. Even when you click through to the article (but still in Fastflip) and scroll left & right - it’s quick too.

I just wonder how the publishers will react to Google carrying ads next to their publications.

I am definitely going to be using this service.

Why don’t you give it a “flip” » Google Fast Flip

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Every 30 seconds or so, a coal truck drives through Ermelo, a town in the centre of the coalfields of Mpumalanga.

… On a good day Majuba could burn 50 000 tons of coal. That’s about the equivalent of a 3-storey-high rugby pitch of coal

Full story 

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