• "Puppy-Dog Water"

    Tuesday 8 March 1663/64 (Pepys’ Diary) Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that she had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by a desire of my aunt Wight to get some for her, who hath a mind, unknown to her husband, to get some for her…

  • Down In The Hollow

    85 – Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps That’s just plain beautiful. This is a summary map of the Hollow Earth, with all its different entry points and layers, including a small floating sun in the middle. So this is what people reverted to after the flat earth was discredited. Strange maps has the…

  • My Musical Preferences

    Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio We’re playing this track because it features electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, major key tonality, prominent use of synth, acoustic sonority, folk roots, dynamic vocalists, acoustic instruments. After months of listening to Pandora, it seems to have calmed down and…

  • Cat Ladders

    On 2 Mar ’07, 8.08am GMT flyerjimmy said: HI I wonder if i can use this picture (see link) On my cat-ladder site – a site about Cat-Ladders 🙂 Here’s the address to the site: http://katt-trappa.blogspot.com/ PLEASE! Where is the picture taken? Which town/country. Yours sincerely / Jimmy Robertson – Stockholm/Sweden Uh, yeah. Sure. Cool…

  • Buzan’s Box

    BF Skinner was a world famous psychologist who did experiments on conditioning, following Pavlov, where he showed you could get anyone to do anything with enough positive reinforcement (negative reinforcement isn’t as effective, oddly). Humph. Lauren Slater has written a very personal book Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century all about…