http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/11/24/its_not_your_dads_ickackock.html

Is nothing sacred? No one messes with my Ick Ack Ock!

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things?p=262

They missed me: “The Itch Scratcher”
Ignores the work in hand and instead concentrates on something that bothers him and him alone; fixing some bug unseen by anyone else or creating a new application to do something only he wants done.
Naturally, as that new project becomes “work” it too will be abanded in favour of a new itch to scratch.

http://diylive.net/index.php/2007/08/07/diy-pong-clock/

http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/2008/01/manners-manifesto.html

“It’s a new year. Time to solve the problems of the world – and there are one or two – before it’s too late. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and it’s dawned on me that the only way we’re going to make the world a better place without having to plough through all that due process and red tape and so-called democracy is to start being better ourselves. And I’m not about to lay some guilt trip about carbon footprints or food miles on you. Those things are common sense. I actually think it’s time we adopted Derek Batey’s famous sign-off from Mr & Mrs:

Be nice to each other.

This is The Manners Manifesto. It’s time for a return to – or a formalisation of – good manners. Here’s how we do it:

1. Smile
2. Say please and thank you
3. Let that car in
4. Be friendly to strangers
5. Help old people off or on the bus
6. Buy the Big Issue and give some change to the homeless
7. Be polite to Jehovah’s Witnesses
8. Never swear at people on the other end of helplines ever
9. Leaving bags of stuff outside charity shops when they’re closed? Come on!
10. Talk to people at the check-out
11. Don’t swear when there are kids about

“

http://sophia.smith.edu/~bturner/saved_p1.html

Another excellent comic strip from Renrutia this time focusing on meeting “Jesus Freaks” in Edinburgh and what he won’t do for a coffee.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity

From the page: “In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever”

Thanks to http://otakulab.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=935?=rss

Dr. Robert Lang used his knowledge of origami to produce new designs and also applied them to develop airbags folding techniques, in heart surgery and in telescope design.

http://www.menshealth.com/ultimate/

Men’s Health 2008 Ultimate To-Do List

http://rareearthtones.org/ringtones/

From the page: “The Center for Biological Diversity offers you free endangered species ringtones and phone wallpapers”a collection of high-quality, authentic sounds and images of some of the worlds most threatened birds, owls, frogs, toads and marine mammals.”

http://bp0.blogger.com/_Dc8q8nuzrHw/R2qZJns6I9I/AAAAAAAABrg/44iEKLgR–k/s1600-h/hunger.jpg

In a grocery store 4,820 canns of Campbell’s Soup were used to build an installation piece that spelled HUNGER. Signoge beside the piece encouraged shoppers to buy one and donate it to their local food bank. As shoppers bought cans from the display the word HUNGER slowly disappeared. This allowed people to see how their individual effort could help bring an end to the problem of hunger.