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For other fans of lilachigh's excellent story Business as Usual, an icon suitable for contemplative squeeing. Should such a concept exist in Agatha's refined sensibility. Please comment if you like. -
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The New York Times reports on a sensitivity training course that shows you how it will feel to be eighty-five. If you have older relatives, work with older people, or ever stand in line behind a pensioner with a shovel purse, read this and empathise. Go on. I dare you. -
Have you tried Wordling?
This cute on-line toy lets you create beautiful word clouds from pretty much any text you can cut and paste.
This one is Burnt Norton, from T S Eliot's Four Quartets. No denying what the theme is....
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Sexy science Why music really is the way to a womans heart -
It's not an illusion - musicians really are attractive, and note marketers it isn't the funky haircuts either. Creativity and mastery are turn ons in any field.
Pity it does not seem to work equally well for both genders - male musos outnumber female by about ten to one.
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Courtesy of Wil Wheaton
Brilliant extract from alien phrase book - makes you long for more tourism. Not ( Read more... ) -
Sir Colin Davis: Knitting the performers together
Sir Colin Davis has just won the Brit award for male performer of the year. It's not about youth - he's 80. But it could be about charm. This short interview displays Davis' talent as the sort of conductor you'd want to work for.
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Are iPhones from Mars and BlackBerrys from Venus?
When it comes to smart phone preferences, there are clear differences between the sexes, say market researchers and usability testers. And these differences have implications for the success the devices. Apparently, however, both genders are equally savvy and competent users. The big difference is in the age of the phone user. For some reason, ( Read more... ) -
The campaign against comic books - another review
For comic-book fans, Fredric Wertham is the biggest villain of all time, a real-life bad guy worse than the Joker, Lex Luthor, and Magneto combined. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Wertham was the intellectual spearhead of the anti-comics crusade, arguing in many articles and his 1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, that comic books ( Read more... ) -
Meme. Language.
Most recently from Eowyn315, here's a list of questions that's supposed to reflect regional differences. Please answer if you haven't already, and post to your blog?? (pretty please? I love this sort of stuff ( Read more... )
