February 2012
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How to punch harder →
I’ve started practicing krav maga recently, and the “basics” package comes with a good deal of classic boxing. I have realized that it is quite difficult for a beginner to throw a proper, by-the-book punch. It’s interesting. It seems incredibly simple when you watch a pro boxing fight, yet mastering the actual technique is far from easy —so many factors to take into account...
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January 2012
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A woman's realistic perspective on nice guys
Read carefully. Emphasis mine:
“I spent most of my life in relationships with a 6 month shelf life, with guys who would without fail treat me like a goddess and fawn at me constantly. I was always the one to end it, and felt like a jerk because it always crushed them and they couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to be with them when they were so good to me. I couldn’t...
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“The girl wrote a story. “But how much better it would be if you wrote a novel,”...”
– “The Mother”, Lydia Davis. Via Esto es Madrid.
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The Pirate Bay goes physible →
“We’re always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it’s time for the next step.
Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about...
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Charlie Brooker on clubs →
“I went to a fashionable London nightclub on Saturday. Not the sort of sentence I get to write very often, because I enjoy nightclubs less than I enjoy eating wool. But a glamorous friend of mine was there to “do a PA”, and she’d invited me and some curious friends along because we wanted to see precisely what “doing a PA” consists of. Turns out doing a public...
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Mark Morgan releases Fallout 1 & 2 remastered... →
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