1984 comes to 2010 – schools, IT and BETT
Spent the afternoon at BETT yesterday, a trade show for educational technology. One reason for going was to drop in on Andrew Holdsworth’s Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub, just published by…
Why your Wii board might be worth £11,000
Wii board helps physios strike a balance after strokes Amazing article in the latest New Scientist about how the data supplied on foot pressure from a Wii balance board is…
Learning to speak dog
My favourite story of the day: how staff at an animal home thought a dog was deaf until they discovered it had come from a Polish household and therefore only…
Women, art, monuments and gender
“Eventually I arrived at a theory, which I offer for consideration. It goes like this: women, being generally more rational than men, are aware that life is more important than…
Framley still the apple of my iEye
The Framley Examiner is still one of my favourite sites ever. It doesn’t do anything, it’s not interactive, it’s not even particularly recently updated, but it still has some of…
Jumping in Red Shoes
Searching for an online script of The Red Shoes I came across this great page which has all kinds of interesting details about the making of the film. One thing…