Why is your home any worse than the places you travel to? Why can’t you view your home through the same eyes as you do when you travel abroad? Why can’t you view your home through the same eyes as people who come to visit your town or country from elsewhere?
Filmmaker Sebastian Linda was wondering the same thing, so he decided to view his homeland of Saxony is eastern Germany through the eyes of a traveler. What he found was a beautiful place that he’d never taken the time to fully explore. There’s no reason you couldn’t do the same.
SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN insanely high cost of beering. If you want to move to a place where getting a pint isn’t too insanely expensive, then, where should you move? And for that matter, where should you avoid?
FinancesOnline put together this awesome infographic about beer around the world, from where it’s cheap to where it’s expensive to where people drink a lot to where people drink almost none at all.
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If you’ve had your Gmail account for awhile, it’s probably a cluttered mess thanks to unread messages, out-of-control newsletters, and never-ending email threads. This is one of the main reasons for the creation of Google’s streamlined Inbox service, but the adoption rate for it hasn’t indicated a huge shift over for most of us yet (partly because it’s invite-only still).
If you don’t like Inbox, or haven’t even gotten a chance to try it out yet, give Wave a shot. The iOS app, from developer Just Mobile Limited, brings a fresh approach to getting control over your Gmail inbox by turning all… more
the architecture has been designed to open its residents to new living experiences through the use of interconnected open spaces, rigorously projected shapes, and an improved use of light.
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Remember all the time spent in high school Spanish classes trying desperately to roll your Rs, but never really managing to?
For English speakers, mastering the art of Spanish pronunciation is no small feat and the Rs are not solely responsible for this difficulty. La “jota” (the letter J), la “tilde” (the squiggly line above the letter N – Ñ), and the general combination of syllabes can be intimidating and seemingly impossible to read out properly.
Despite it all, you must give it a shot. Watch this video and try to do better than those gringos.
David Welsford has life figured out — he lives alone on a 28-foot sailboat in the Caribbean. While he admits that it can get lonely at times, his life of sailing around, making money where he can, and watching the sun rise and set every day seems about as perfect as it can get. He spends much of his time performing upkeep on his ship and taking pictures. When it’s time for a bath (“every two or three days”), he simply rubs soap on himself and jumps into the sea.
Welsford seems uncertain about his future — to sail north would mean to sail home, which he isn’t ready for, and to sail through the Panama Canal into the Pacific would mean following the trade winds to Australia. So for now, he’ll be following the wind wherever it takes him.
This article was originally published on September 20, 2014.
Hard-boiled eggs are such an amazing snack, but there’s nothing quite so frustrating as trying to get all the shell off without damaging the egg underneath. I’ve ended up with many a sadly pitted and pockmarked egg that somehow doesn’t taste quite as good as when it emerges all white and smooth.
Now, there are ways to hard-boil your eggs so they emerge intact from the shell. Otherwise, all you need is a glass of water to make sure you get your egg out in one piece. Watch the magic below from MicahMedia (via Lifehacker). The concept is actually pretty similar to peeling a bulb of garlic in a… more
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