The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse on Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/4636202

November 9th 2007 - November 13th 2008 one year on foot - 4646km through China unlimited beard & hair growth thelongestway.com

one day we should do something so intense

Minutes until the next bus

Your chair is your enemy. It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.

Conversely, a study of people who sit for many hours found that those who took frequent small breaks — standing up to stretch or walk down the corridor — had smaller waists and better profiles for sugar and fat metabolism than those who did their sitting in long, uninterrupted chunks.

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Man, I need to try a standing desk

Map and walking tour of indie bookstores in NUC

Aa map for a walking tour of NYC's independent book stores.

The Millions has a walking tour of independent bookstores left in nYc. http://bit.ly/uvVsT I love the list, but sad that it's so small.

Despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined.

Walking Tour of New York's Independent Bookstores

It would be belaboring the obvious to say the last two years have been tough times for the bookmen and bookwomen. And yet, despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined. I'll spare you the exegesis on why I think this matters - we've covered that ground in the original post, and elsewhere. Instead, I'd like to offer you a new and improved edition of the Walking Tour. You can still find brief descriptions of many of the stops in our first "Islands in the Stream Post," but the route we've charted has changed, and we've added new stops, with new descriptions below. In addition, through the magic of modern technology, we've created an information-rich online map of the tour.

Great documentation: walking across the USA — http://imjustwalkin.com/ (via @Rui_Tenreiro)

I'm walking across America

a guy walks across the US

Carrying a Droid and SPOT Satellite Messenger; via <a href="http://www.modernhiker.com/2010/06/25/walking-across-the-country/">Modern Hiker</a>