As promised, we end the
year with a round-up of some of the sites we've stumbled across this year
that we think might give you some ideas, some food for thought and some fun
this festive season. So without further ado...
A couple of words-related sites: bookfinder.com
- invaluable for tracking down books you want to get hold of that haven't
been on Amazon for a decade or three. If bookfinder can't find it, noone
can. And fullbooks.com, featuring
the full text of any number of books. Not that reading entire books
on-screen is our idea of fun, but if as we do you often want to quote a bit
from a book you don't have to hand, very often you can find it here, ready
for copy 'n pasting.
Less useful, but kind of interesting, a few sites to bend your mind: blueballfixed,
which mesmerisingly demonstrates a twisted but brilliant mind at work, sheeprace,
where you can test your own mind's speed of reaction, and rotatingillusion,
which is just, well, weird. Then there's theydidn'tstudy,
which shows what can happen to minds that don't get enough exercise.
Speaking of exercise, put a bit of brainpower and a bit of effort together,
and the results can be kind of interesting, as in this demonstration
that there's no business like snowbusiness, or questionable,
to say the least.
Since we feel we ought to tickle your brain cells just a bit, a talk
by Sir Ken Robinson, one of any number of presentations on ted.com which are
both fascinating and thought provoking, and finally there's no excuse for misternicehands,
which is neither.
We hope you've enjoyed our missives this year. We'll try to up our
regularity in what we hope will be a 'things can only get better' new year.
Have a great Christmas!
Alan and Nick
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