I've knocked up this little website whereby you can find activity partners in sports and things you are interested in finding partners in.

It's an ongoing project so excuse the debris - seriously, it might be of use to you at some point, feel free to check it out and bookmark it for future use.

Activity partners

Ive been reading this book by a chap named Philip Ball called Critical Mass.

It really is kinda cool in a geekazoid kinda way. It looks at patterns of behaviour in things, both animate and inanimate and draws all these great scientific and historical strands of thought together to explain it and make sense of it all.

What I really like is the way he manages to weave the philosophical with the scientific. Adam Smith with particle physics! Exciting huh?

Put like that it sounds kinda boring, but it aint, honest. If you ever watched a crowd of birds dancing in the sky together and wondered of its origins or how they all seemed to know where they were going and were amazed at how they never bump into each other and plummet downwards, or get lost and fly off in different directions, then this will be right up your street.

I'm only half way through it, and its the type of book that you have to read a few pages and then sort of sit down and reflect on it a while.Well, that's how Ive been reading it. There is a lot of stuff to take in and get your head around. The cooling properties of metals and how they superconduct at various temperatures. Gases that turn into superfluids and literally crawl out of their containers. Magnets that lose magnicity when heated and why and then reading about how that can be applied to human condition and why it even matters.

I'm not in a wordy mood so I'll say no more than you can check it out here. (aff link)

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another