Month: June 2007
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Children’s Logic
“Give me a sentence about a public servant,” said a teacher. The small boy wrote:“The fireman came down the ladder pregnant.” The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. “Don’t you know what pregnant means?” she asked.Sure,” said the young boy confidently. “It means carrying a child.”A grandmother was surprised by her 7 year…
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That Wacky Web
Women in ArtMaking artifacts from an alternative age…Ji Lee’s Abstractor: finally, TV is watchable.Oingo Boingo on the Gong Show“ReacTable,” the DJ turntable of the futureSkydiving from over 100,000 feetKeep on Truckin’History of the Luddites, shown on a hand-cranked zoetropeUgly mailboxesClassic game show videosIan’s Shoelace Site shows you how to lace your shoes 31 different waysHigh…
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Pitch in
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Priceless grandparent stories
After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed…
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Business
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce