Category: Here & There

The Greenest Skyscrapers In The World

Bahrain WTCMore and more sustainable buildings, packed with a bunch of eco-friendly innovations, are popping up all over the world.
I just came across this list of the world’s top 10 greenest skyscrapers, of which three are in the Arab world:

1.The Bahrain World Trade Center Towers, Kingdom of Bahrain
2. The Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou, China
3. Bank of America Tower, New York City
4. The Lighthouse Tower, Dubai
5.The CIS Tower, Manchester England
6. The Hearst Tower, New York City
7.The Burj al-Taqa (Energy Tower), Dubai
8.Waugh Thistleton Residential Tower, London
9. 340 on the Park, Chicago
10. The Urban Cactus, Rotterdam

[Via: Arab Environment Monitor]

10 Ways to Have a Happy Workday

I found this interesting post about ten ways you can have a happy work day, and who wouldn’t want one of those.

The list goes as follows:

1. Eat breakfast
2. Get plenty of sunshine
3. Get Aerobic Exercise
4. Avoid RSS, Email or phone before 10 am.
5. Think positive thoughts not negative
6. Take breaks
7. Go for a mid-day walk
8. Avoid gossip
9. List your top 5-7 objectives for the day and break the list down to 3
10. Be slow to react to other people

First Book Written On Mobile Phone Published

Now here’s one creative thing to do with a mobile phone when you have a lot of time on your hands…

Italian author Robert Bernocco has amazed the literary world by publishing the world’s first book written using a mobile phone. Bernocco published it on Lulu.com.

Bernocco took advantage of his idle time while commuting to and from work by train, writing his 384-page science fiction novel, Compagni di Viaggo (Fellow Travelers), on his Nokia 6630 phone, using the phone’s T9 typing system.

By dividing his manuscript into short paragraphs, Mr. Bernocco wrote his novel in perfect Italian, not your typical text-message shorthand, and saved the paragraphs on his mobile phone. Mr. Bernocco then downloaded them onto his home computer for proofreading and editing. The book took him 17 weeks to write.

Source: CNW Group

Amazing, I can’t believe how much patience this guy has to write a whole book using a mobile phone; I barely use text messages because it’s annoying, so imagine having to go through this. Bravo.

Think Different…

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

— Steve Jobs

10 Deadly Sins of Negative Thinking

Another great post on zenhabits, this time about the 10 sins of negative thinking.

The following are 10 thoughts that should trigger an alarm that you’re entering into a negative thinking area:

1. I will be happy once I have _____ (or once I earn $X).
2. I wish I were as ____ as (a celebrity, friend, co-worker).
3. Seeing others becoming successful makes me jealous and resentful.
4. I am a miserable failure