POSTED // Jan 25,2013 - “Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.” So said the eccentric, outspoken and hard-partying actress Talullah Bankhead (1902-1968). Can you guess her astrological sign? Aquarius, of course.

POSTED // Jan 11,2013 - A San Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering. So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time

POSTED // Jan 4,2013 - In Tom Robbins’ book Skinny Legs & All, one of the characters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: Keep your eye on the ball.

POSTED // Dec 28,2012 - In 2013, I pledge to help you bring only the highest-quality influences and self-responsible people into your life. Together we will work to dispel any unconscious attraction you might have to demoralizing chaos or pathological

POSTED // Dec 21,2012 - When he was 21, the Capricorn writer Jack London set off to prospect for gold in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He had a rough time there. Malnourished, he suffered from scurvy and leg pain. To make matters worse, he didn’t find much gold, and returned home broke.

POSTED // Dec 14,2012 - For the last six decades of his life, Pablo Picasso created art that was adventurous and experimental. He didn’t invent abstract painting, but he was instrumental in popularizing it.

POSTED // Dec 7,2012 - If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred.

POSTED // Nov 30,2012 - If you say "rabbit rabbit rabbit" as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days.

POSTED // Nov 23,2012 - Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you’ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-resolution flux capacitor

POSTED // Nov 16,2012 - An environmental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul. In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught.