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Hi everyone! I decided to ask redditors for help: I have just moved in to my new appartment in Paris and I have to renovate everything: windows, electricity, plumbing, floors, walls...

I was hoping that the reddit community could help me with technological suggestions (choice of layout, components and materials) to create a swank XXIst century appartment that respects energy consumption and the green philosophy of today/tomorrow. I can supply you with all the information needed (plans and measurements of the place) and even document the 'before and after' pics on this thread.

I have had ideas like: a waterproof touch screen in the shower to select music (and/or video), LED lighting, a big flashing red button to cut the hardline to the internet, fiber optics backbone or gigabit ethernet, hidden cameras in the walls, SMS alerts every time the main door is open...

I am open to all suggestions even the crazy ones if they aren't too expensive or if they are absolutely necessary.

In the order of things, I am at the point where I am dealing with installation of a completely new electrical setup (cabling, fuse box, plugs, lights and anything that will need power). I have only setup electricity temporarily for the renovations and will soon be able to finalize my setup by making holes in the walls to hide my cabling.

This brings me to my first request for help: Designing the electrical panel layout (main power and fuse box) and in the same surface, include the network patch panel (incorporating ADSL phone line) with a BIG RED 'do not press' flashing button to cut the network ling to the outside.

So this is my cry for help. All suggestions are welcome!

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Writer and marketing guru Seth Godin doesn’t plan to publish any more books – at least not in the traditional sense.

After writing 12 books, he doesn’t think the traditional publishing process is “worth the effort,” he revealed in an interview with Mediabistro. Godin, the author of bestsellers such as “Purple Cow” and “The Dip,” has quite a bleak view on the paper book and the way we consume it.

One bit from the interview is particularly revealing. “I like the people, but I can’t abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don’t usually visit to buy something they don’t usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that’s hard to spread,” says Godin.

I still like to visit a bookstore. But in general, I can’t shake the feeling that Godin is right: paper books aren’t a particularly elegant way to spread an idea in the age of blogs, e-readers, and social media.

“I really don’t think the process is worth the effort that it now takes to make it work. I can reach 10 or 50 times as many people electronically,” says Godin.

Do you agree? Is traditional book publishing really a thing of the past? Please share your opinion in the comments.

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In this Sunday’s New York Times, reporter Brian Stelter outlines his using Twitter as a tool for weight loss by setting up a @brianstelter25 account for his progress and tweeting out his exercise plan and meals.

“I knew that I could not diet alone; I needed the help of a cheering section.”

He ends up losing 75 pounds.

On my birthday this year, I decided that 15 years of smoking were enough and tossed cigarettes. I don’t think I tweeted about it at first, mostly because I felt really sick from nicotine withdrawals –- but on day three I mustered enough energy to pound out the above missive.

The amount of support I received then and in the days afterward was overwhelming, and much like Stelter I would have felt like I’d let people down if I picked up a cigarette instead of my iPhone.

I stuck to my guns and stuck on my nicotine patches, tweeting instead of smoking when in at risk situations like parties with friends and passing by airport entrances.

I loved smoking like Stelter loved Dunkin’ Donuts, but seeing the support tweets like this one from Lowercase Capital’s Chris Sacca and this one from Twitter’s Troy Holden made me think twice before buying a pack of cigarettes, no matter how much the urge to smoke burned.

I could not quit alone, I needed the help of a cheering section.

Why do people overeat, or smoke or drink in the first place? In my experience it’s because they want attention or need to be soothed. If you can replace the “stress relief” or whatever satisfaction unhealthy behaviors give you with the positive feelings engendered by reinforcement from the people you’re connected with on Twitter, then Twitter becomes a powerful supplemental tool in the management of addiction.

“Then she mentioned, casually, ‘By the way, I’ve lost 50 pounds along with you.”

The idea of using Twitter as a support group is as new as Twitter itself, but I’ve heard countless stories like Stelter’s, whether it’s OneForty’s Laura Fitton using it to make sure she does her yoga poses every day or our own Paul Carr and his successful attempt at quitting drinking.

One of the more haunting Twit-quitting stories: ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant’s last tweet before his death was in support of blogger Aaron Brazell’s efforts to kick the habit.

And sure some may argue that the gross self-indulgence of the first vice is replaced by the gross self-indulgence of the second. But I’ll take TMI over black lungs any day.

And of course, there’s a Twitter app for that.

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Is this true? I want to read more on this theory of Earth getting destroyed and restarting again. Makes me think about how many other worlds have advanced as much as us and then got destroyed. What if were liek the 50th generation of Earth?

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On a desktop computer, StumbleUpon makes sense. You’re on the prowl for cool stuff, click a button and find it. But there is a ton of competition these days among services that let you do this — and increasingly people are relying on Twitter and Facebook for this. But mobile is a different beast.

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