Links of the Week XI

Next time you go to New York, you might want to avoid traveling by bicycle. And you definitely should not write any text messages while walking around the city. Why? Check out this week's links to find out!

Thank You!

The magic number was reached sometime yesterday. I missed it, but someone gave my blog its 1000th pageview. Which is a great time to thank you - my dear blog visitors - for reading my posts!
And I thought this would be a great opportunity to share with you how diverse you guys are :-) Here's a screenshot of my blog statistics from the time I started it in April (don't get confused by the "May 2008" date, that has to do with an older blog that nobody ever looked at ;-)) until now. Just click on the smaller image to see it full-size.

P.S. I have never heard of the operating system BeOS and the browser SeaMonkey :-)

Are You Feeling Safe Or Suffocated?

A romantic relationship can be the best or worst thing that has ever happened to you. There are, of course, many different factors that play a role in how your relationship will turn out. I won't go into all that. To my mind, one of the most important questions every serious partnership needs to answer is this: Do I feel safe or suffocated?

Baby, I Love Your... Sweat!

A while back a good friend of mine was seeing a woman who openly confessed to him that she felt attracted to him when she could smell his sweat. (The reasons for the initial attraction were different... or at least I hope they were!) At the time I thought to myself: "Well, strange women are everywhere, so I'm not surprised!" But now I know that it's actually quite common and normal for women feel that way.

Yup, in case you're not sure you just misread or misunderstood that, let me repeat it again:

Apparently women are attracted to a man's sweat. 

To be more exact, to its odor. Nice, huh?

What To Do With All Your Money ;-)

Have you ever wondered what you should do with all that money sitting in your bank account? No?

Well, then you're like me and not exactly the definition of wealthy! But does that make us less happy than our affluent fellow human beings? Money doesn't buy happiness, right? As it turns out, it's not quite that simple.

Links of the Week X

They're back... the links of the week. Been too busy to collect any lately, but with the school-year ending, I was able to find a few interesting videos this past week. Make sure you check out Danny MacAskill and his amazing biking skills! That and more after the jump.

3 Ways To Check If You're Socially Intelligent

This is a special post, because it is a mix of different things I've recently learned from reading Social Intelligence (which you can get here) by Daniel Goleman. These are not necessarily new to me, but it's always nice to hear it from a guy who actually studies this kind of stuff and knows what he's talking about ;-)

1) If you're socially intelligent, you won't worry too much about your own problems, but will be more likely to feel empathy and compassion for others...

"In short, self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action." (p. 54)