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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

At some point in our lives, we all need a little inspiration. Here are quotes on living, being, and doing. Share some of your favorite quotes to inspire others. Need more inspiration?

Creativity continues to intrigue me. Take a look at these World of Warcraft origami.

For the serious gamer that can’t be bothered with origami, check out these WoW news, tips, and strategies.

Innovation brings distraction, especially when nearly everything can be accessed via a mobile phone. Many would call Twitter one of their biggest time sucks, but I *cough* wouldn’t.

Procrastination creeps up like a setting sun. The calming dusk lures—no, seduces our minds and attention to focus on the beauty of the orange hued skies. We allow ourselves permission to be distracted for what we justify as “a brief moment.” And, as we watch the sun kiss the horizon to welcome in nightfall, we suddenly realize that we’re in the dark, figuratively that is with respect to the project that we should have been focused on.

Let’s get out of the dark and implement these tips to end procrastination. Once you’ve mastered those, focus more on getting things done.

A great way to hang on to Grandmas’s old filing cabinet or Uncle Ted’s ancient guitar case is to repurpose those antiques and give them a new life—a life that doesn’t involve collecting dust in your basement.

Check out these five creative repurposed booksheves for some inspiration.

More dusty goods over here.

According to new research funded by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), your ability to make sense of Groucho’s words and Harpo’s pantomines in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions in your brain.

Researchers have shown that the brain regions that have long been recognized as a centre in which spoken or written words are decoded are also important in interpretting wordless gestures. This suggests that these brain regions may play a much broader role in the interpretation of symbols than previously thought. For this reason, it’s plausible that this could be the evolutionary starting point from which language originated.

To learn more about this amazing study, read on.

All the latest and greatest anthropological discoveries.

If you’ve ever been afraid to ask a question, if you’ve ever pondered a thought without resolve, if you need a snappy answer to any of life’s questions—look no further than Answers.com, the world’s leading Q & A site. For example, today I stumbled upon the question, “How many babies can a sheep give birth to at one time?” Not a question you can just whip out anywhere, right? But thanks to the wiki, the author of that question now knows the answer is three to four lambs at one time.

The site is also great for fun (although potentially useless) facts, brain-stumping trivia, and insightful quotes.

Lots more answers to life’s many mysteries.

If you’re someone who enjoys a good behind-the-scenes look at how films are made, this post is for you. Here’s an interesting look at Wes Anderson doing video reference for his new animated film, Fantastic Mr. Fox. For nearly every scene in the film, Anderson acted out exactly how he wanted it to look—from the blocking, to the movement. It’s a cool, quick (and worthwhile) watch.

Lots more animation stories where that came from!

Jonathan Morrow explains the art of the paragraph. He proselytizes the idea that every paragraph should pass a five-question quiz. The first question flatters me immensely: Does it pass the Guy Kawasaki question for whether people should give a shiitake about it? Read the entire post to learn how to make your paragraphs, and therefore all your writing and blogging, better.

More help for writers and for bloggers.

After a lifetime spent pumping out eggs at a dank, industrial battery farm, these ragged rescue hens are given a second chance at life thanks to the Cobble Hills Farm Sanctuary, in small town Ontario Canada.

Cobble Hills is a non-profit healing hen house that runs solely on donations, and the kind volunteer work of children from a local troubled youth centre. Click through for the incredible video, and see the chickies experience the outdoors for the very first time. Those little chicken sweaters and matted feathers get me every time!

More rescue stories for you animal lovers.

Everyone has heard the old yarns “stick to your knitting” and “will the dogs eat the food?” But now you should ask if the dogs will eat the knitting.

More on needlecraft because when we say we have “all the topics,” we weren’t kidding.