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Listen: Both Sides Now (Cover)
Yamagata’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now good for rainy mornings and lazing...
Article: Paved with good intentions
One of the best articles I’ve read on not following the Singapore Plan. Written...
Article: Are you as busy as you think?
From Jin (thank you jh!!) From the Wall Street Journal - Are You As...

Calling for submissions here- the very best of your recommendations for 2011.

What went through your head when the invigilator called time on your last exam as an undergraduate? Did anything crazy?
unfortunately the only thing on my mind was "oh thank god i can go to the toilet now" and then i bolted straight for the toilet. the dailymail article on the correlation between drinking water and better grades may be true, but oh boy you better have a bladder of steel. on a less frivolous note however, i did head back and write what i really felt […]
how to get lyrics to display and scroll automatically on iTunes using a Windows os?
sorry i have no idea... don't use windows. […]
which superpower: flying or breathing underwater
Tough one. I have all these dreams of breathing underwater, but I don't think anything could beat the unparalleled freedom and weightlessness of flying. […]