Category: Twitters

Wonderful tale here about how the Apple logo designer got 50 cents reminds of Trevor Key the photographer who designed the Virgin logo on the back of a napkin. Branson notes that he didnt begrudge paying his £200 bill. So Mandy’s bill for $1500 seems very generous

A brilliant article comparing the western guilt culture and the Arab /Eastern shame culture. I have often wondered why this is “Arab men eradicate shame and bolster their shaky self-esteem by imposing the shameful qualities of the dhimmi, submission and passivity, upon women. Trailing a humbled woman behind them, Arab men can walk the walk […]

Thanks Nick for this link. I can imagine my mum swooning to Bing Crosby during my birth. Bing Crosby • The Squadronaires / Bing Crosby (tied) – ‘Among My Souvenirs / A Gal In Calico’

This is just what I was talking to Laurence and Jeff about last night at the CHASE puntmeet. A holographic image straight out SciFi. Wait till google maps is displayed and you can go inside the world. IO2Technology: Heliodisplay/ Interactive Free-Space Display Trackbacked to http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/3013778

A really cool application that allows visitors to your website to add themselves to your map MyGuestmap – The first and only Google Maps Guestmap Service! Thanks to Social Software for the link

A friend of mine who is a piano teacher has started to get these very weird emails:- “Hello there, my name is peter wells and i am a british nationality based in in Africa,at present i work with the UNITED NATIONS and i am presently looking for a piano ttutor for my son she will […]

Here is Stelios latest idea. easyHotel.com for hotels from Stelios, founder of easyJet Apparently you don’t have to take your own sheets etc “All easyHotel.com rooms will be cleaned and have the bed made on your arrival. Should you require housekeeping services during your stay, they are available at a charge. Details are available on […]

Just back from a very enjoyable tour of the Baltic States. Really loved Pärnu with its wide very safe sandy beach and acres of well kept parks. Delicious food especially the cakes and all very inexpensive between 1/2 and 1/3 of UK prices. As always I found myself looking into the local property market. Lowest […]

Fantastic idea for bridging the gap. allows students around the world to do participatory story telling. It would be excellent to use this with Google Earth and zoom into the community. Welcome to Bridges to Understanding

An incredible survivors tale of someone who was actually in one of the underground trains destroyed. Amazing the way he walked away from it all in a state of shock. You would never get an article like this in MSM Pfff: Surviving a Terrorist Attack