A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by.

meh, 1 out of 75 ain't all bad. picked by doggylives 1 week ago

Robert Scoble came up with the idea in a recent blog post to make a list of 'obsolete skills.' He describes these skills as things we used to know that are no longer very useful to us picked by Bornbad 3 weeks ago

Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' picked by extc68 3 months ago

Watching MissWinkle's La Sexilinea post put me in mind of this character from the world of Modern Toss (although this link tells you more. Twelve more episodes in the comments. picked by Pocksucket 3 months ago

When kids from the street are bringing the game to a next level.
Even without the ball it's impressive. picked by wildminou 3 months ago

A Saudi woman activist marked this year's International Women's Day by defying a ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom and posted a video of her act on YouTube.

More than 1,100 Saudi men and women signed a petition to King Abdullah urging him to lift the controversial ban on women driving. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

A woman kicked out of a women's toilet after a New York City restaurant mistook her for a man has settled her discrimination lawsuit for $US35,000 ($37,116). picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

Two teenagers hid overnight in a house and spent more than six hours torturing a disabled woman after her mother left in the morning, authorities said.

this is despicable.
*theme pic unrelated* picked by indisguise 3 months ago

A student in Norway who posed as a 13-year-old boy turned out to be a 33-year-old woman on the run from police investigating a child abuse case in the Czech Republic. Barbora Skrlova duped Norwegian police, classmates, child care workers and teachers for four months into believing she was a teenage boy named "Adam". picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A woman who apparently turned off the heat in her home to save energy was found frozen to death in her bed, a LaPorte County official said. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

Varvara Semennikova, who lived in a small village in northwest Yakutia, Russia, was the oldest woman in Russia and claimed to be the oldest person in the world since August 2007. All her children died, that's why she adopted three more children from whom she was having dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren. picked by maxriter 2 months ago

Men are more likely than women to have problems with memory and other thinking skills, symptoms considered to be an early stage of dementia, research suggests. picked by AutumnLotus 4 weeks ago

The goat tethered to a tree outside of Max Beauvoir's home is doomed.

Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the religion's supreme master, a newly created position that is aimed at reviving voodoo. picked by deEPCHill 1 month ago