Author: Dr Wingnut
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How greeting cards are made
Cute animation plugging Hallmark’s Shoebox brand, and explaining how greeting cards are madeA bunch of links about bubble wrapPlay fetch with a three-legged seal-dog.For Lord of the Rings fans: One does not simply walk into Mortor.Finally, Barry Schwartz (Gel 2005 speaker) and his student Dan Keys have just begun a study that is intended to…
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Growth
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.Albert Einstein
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Why We Love Children
A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead.“How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil.“Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.You did what?!?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.“You know,”explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst!’…
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Image of God
Actually, our image of God is outmoded anyway, whether the tsunami occurs or not. Religion has become divisive, quarrelsome and idiotic. Religion is the reason we have all this conflict in the world. We have squeezed God into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime; given God a male identity, and…
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Six signs that you should run — not walk — from your new job
You ask your new boss for supplies and she hands you a No. 2 pencil and legal pad — and nothing else.You were shown to a cubicle your first day of work, given a company manual and haven’t been spoken to since.Every time you tell someone about your new job with the company they raise…
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Fraud
Fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lieBarry Minkow, one of the 20th Century’s greatest con artists
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Dangerous Shoppers
Hannah and I drove down from Maine on Saturday afternoon and met the blizzard head on at the Portsmouth Rotary.We saw several cars off the road the nearer we got to the Mass. Border.Sunday Cherrie had it all shoveled out by game time and we settled in to watch the Pats cream the Steelers.Monday, as…