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Quietly working away at my desk this evening, without music for a change, when I nearly leapt out my skin as I heard a big thump and a huge shadow appeared on my desk. I turned to look up at the light and discovered one of the four giant geckos that live in the top bamboo beam of my roof had dropped into the light shade for some dinner!
I particularly like the cheeky smirk on this face.
‘Chindogu’ is the japanese word coined for the art of the unuseless idea. Strangely practical and utterly eccentric inventions for a life of ease and hilarity.
The following gem of a list — variations of which circulated in a number of publications at the back-end of the 1800s — was printed in 1891 in the Taranaki Herald Read on…
Since becoming increasingly enthralled with the brilliance of nature and gradually learning to live within its bounds, I have noticed within myself an ever diminishing wow factor when it comes to ‘high technology’. Read on…
If ever you wanted to smash two of the greatest tunes of all time into one atomic remix, Al’s got you covered. Read on…
As a part of the 21st Century Learning Initiative and drawn from the book Overschooled but Undereducated by John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart, Born to Learn is a repository of animations aimed at bringing awareness to our current global educational crisis Read on…
Quietly working away at my desk this evening, without music for a change, when I nearly leapt out my skin as I heard a big thump and a huge shadow appeared on my desk. Read on…
Well worth reading this extract from a post by Lynda Gratton… Read on…