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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is upon was again!
Get your plots out and your writing hands ready to write your novel in one month – remember that it’s quantity not quality!
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) [...]

Do the Green Thing is an online community dedicated to doing green things. What is a green thing? You can probably get an idea by looking at good news involving green things and the environment. Remember that living green is good for you and the planet!
Green Thing is a community that’s here to help as [...]

FreeRice is a site that will improve the world and your mind. The site gives you a word you need to define and if you get it right you have successfully donated rice to a hungry person somewhere in the world!
FreeRice has two goals:
1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger [...]

Exercise is not only good for you health but also good for your ability to use your brain. Sure, you can stick to sodoku, but to be really smart it seems your best option is to accompany that with some old-school Exercise.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, which show the brain at work, were performed [...]

An Australian industrial designer, Paul Charlwood, has decided that disposable design is a waste. We’ve talked about consumerism here before and how it has a negative effect on the environment, but Charlwood wants to change our mind on that matter by encouraging consumerism to be something that can last.
Once Charlwood turned his mind to [...]

No, this isn’t a long rambiling post kind of yarn, as the OED says that yarn can mean “a long or rambling story, esp. one that is implausible.” I mean yarn as in “a spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing.”
Yes, that’s right, today’s Blog Action Day post is about yarn and how people [...]