Although we like to claim how rapidly modern technology is changing the world, and not just Western society, I am not so impressed.
Category Archive: Life
Who could resist the urge to pick this exquisite little book up and browse through its painted pages?
There is already a substantial queue of organisations waiting to know how to create intensely viral events, and how to control them.
I would never have dreamed that huge numbers of people would propagate an obvious malapropism. But search Twitter, or use any regular search engine like Google, for “hate hippocrates”, and step back in amazement.
Why don’t computer magazines have ads like “Chew KipperGum, its Omega 3 fatty acids will fuel your Photoshop work beyond Steve Caplin’s”, or “Evening Primrose Tea puts the fourth dimension into Lightwave”?
If you too find Tracey Emin’s bed tawdry, then you should enjoy Miriam and Ezra Elia’s delightful parody of a classic Ladybird learn-to-read book, We Go to the Gallery.
Even the least money-motivated of us become tempted to play to the gallery, and their view statistics.
You know those creepy adverts which keep appearing on websites, offering you products which you have either just […]
Tackling great problems was best summarised by the late Fritz Schumacher: “Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”
You would be forgiven for thinking that tomorrow was the first of March, not June. If you dare mention ‘global warming’ round here I think the local hoteliers would lynch you.
The Eclectic Light Company 