“The morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed.”.

“While feeding the stove with broken-up old vegetable boxes, I would watch the moon rise in winter and the sun set in summer for the time it took to prepare my evening’s repast.
Birds in the trees around my kitchen became my new iPod, and observing wildlife taught me much more about nature than any documentary I’d seen on the television.”.
(Mark Boyle)

From The Guardian: My year of living without money, by Mark Boyle.

“Samantha Chapman is an accomplished make-up artist. Along with her sister Nicola she runs fashionface.tv, a unique website which shows how to create fashion forward looks as well as vintage classics. To date the site and accompanying YouTube page has had over one million hits.”. (From samanthachapman.com)

Above: Nicola Chapman in Smokey Blue Eyes Tutorial.

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“Sharply written, an astute view on life and its pitfalls.”. (Ian Lumsden) See: Gustavus and a long life Gustavus interiority complex Gustavus car

Gustavus (Dargay-Nepp-Jankovics, Pannonia Film Studios, 1964)

Above: Gustavus and alienation.

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“Robbing a bank is as simple as putting pen to paper.
Here are actual demand notes used in successful and unsuccessful unarmed bank robberies, accompanied by a photo of each robber and appended with details about the robbery itself.”.

Bank Notes: a collection of bank robbery notes. By Ken Habarta.

“A straw man is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.
The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern:

1. Topic A is under discussion.
2. Topic B is introduced under guise of being equivalent to topic A.
3. A participant (usually the one who introduced B) attacks B, as if it were A.”.

(from Wikipedia)