That's fairly interesting

I flipped open a paperback copy of the Moby Dick which was heavily annotated by its previous owner. On the title page was a link to chapter 79, The Prarie - where this remark resides:

"I will do my endeavor. I try all things; I achieve what I can."

What do you call a hyperlink in a paperback?

And did you know the name of Starbucks (a well known chain of coffeeshops) comes from Moby Dick? Or that Starbucks was originally called Il Giornallo?

And finally, the title of this post was taken from a New Zealand TV show fronted by the mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt called: That's Fairly Interesting - a parody of the American show: That's Incredible - fronted by Lee Majors - The Six Million Dollar Man.

I wonder what six million dollars would be in current currency?

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Addict-o-matic

A cool resource for you to try. Aggregates search topics from a number of sources. Thanks to Brand DNA (again) for the heads-up.

Johnny Bunko competiton

The Great Johnny Bunko Challenge from DHP on Vimeo . There's a young chap in Indiana, one Alec Quig , who has written to me about creating a career based on a polymathic degree, from which he has recently graduated. He's an interesting young man and his concerns about going forward in life are the anxieties we all face at crossroads in our lives when we are forced to make choices. Dan Pink's latest book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need might help: "From a New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Washington Post bestselling author comes a first-of-its- kind career guide for a new generation of job seekers.There's never been a career guide like it.the fully illustrated story (ingeniously told in Manga form) of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to parachute company Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early days as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to find a new job. St

Shoulders of giants

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." "Life is just one damned thing after another." (Both from Elbert Hubbard - look him up on the wikipedia . If it's wrong - change it)

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