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The Incredible Power of Contentment “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero While many readers have noted my efforts and articles on self-improvement, what I haven’t stressed as much is the beauty of becoming content with what you have and who you already are. I’m definitely a goal-oriented person — [...]

Tags: buddhism, contentedness, contentment, happiness, inspirational, mind, satisfaction, zen, zenhabits

Want that aisle seat? There’s no guarantee but here’s tips to help you get it updated 3:08 p.m. ET, Tues., April. 1, 2008 We’ve all been there — the small child kicking the back of your seat, the lack of leg room, the war over the armrest. While there’s no fail-safe way to guarantee that aisle seat [...]

Tags: air travel, airline, airlines, airplane, airplanes, comfort, seating, travel

Focus on being romantic. Any woman will tell you it doesn’t take much to be romantic. A romantic letter or email only takes a few minutes to write. Flowers are always welcome, even if you picked them up from the grocery store on the way home. These small gestures show your wife that you’ve thought [...]

Tags: affair, affairs, fidelity, manliness, marriage, men, sex, sexuality

2. Fern Spider The fern spider is unique on this list as it is the only combined plant and animal. At the time of writing this is the only animal that has successfully been crossed with a plant. The spider is a cross between a common Italian Wolf spider (Lycosa tarantula) and the ponga fern (Cyathea [...]

Tags: creepy, genetic engineering, genetic modification, genetically modified, genetics, genome, science, scientific, weird

It turns out malware somehow found its way onto a Maine-based supermarket chain’s servers, which led to the security breach announced earlier this month compromising up to 4.2 million credit cards. Citing a letter the Hannaford grocer sent to Massachusetts regulators, The Boston Globe on Friday reported that the malicious software intercepted data from customers as [...]

Tags: bank, banking, banks, breach, computers, credit, credit cards, fraud, hacking, hannaford, maine, secret service

It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies? The zeroHouse by Scott Specht is futuristic architecture that laughs in the face of ‘the man.’ This setup is made to work completely off the grid. It generates all of it’s own power by [...]

Tags: architecture, cargo containers, concepts, design, ecological, ideas, prefab, prefabricated, self-sustaining, solar, sustainable

What time you get to the pump Wednesday morning is the best time to buy gasoline according to GasPriceWatch.com. That’s because prices usually move up for the weekend, after which they settle, hitting the low point by Wednesday. And it makes sense to buy your gas in the morning when it’s the coolest time of day. This [...]

Tags: automotive, cars, driving, economics, economy, efficiency, fuel, gasoline, prices, tips

3. Fort Jefferson Work began on this fascinating, unfinished coastal fort in 1846 and the building is still the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere, comprising of over 16 million bricks. Construction on the hexagonal fort continued for 30 years, the work-in-progress at its peak becoming home to 2,000 people, building work only stopped when [...]

Tags: abandoned, damaged, destroyed, empty, florida, sites, structures, unfinished, urbex, vacation