August 13th: Celebrate your right to be left-handed. Happy Left-Handers Day! LINK→
All year round, we fit in with home and office layouts designed for right-handers’ comfort, put up with doors, cookers, sinks, computer mice, keyboards and desks that are efficient for right-handers to work at, and hundreds of times every day we contort ourselves using back-to-front tools and gadgets that make us look clumsy and awkward in our efforts to make them work…But NOT TODAY!
I just recently revamped the Notables site, a webpage I originally set up and have been running since 1998 for my mother’s Lowrey organ club. This is the ninth site redesign since then, this time using the CrystalX theme, albeit tweaked, and the latest version of WordPress. LINK→
Wikipedia Says: Oblique Strategies (subtitled “over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas”) is a set of published cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Now in its fifth edition, it was first published in 1975. Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation. A wonderful tool! Pick a card! LINK→
A podcast of a brief interview on Classic FM with Mike Oldfield about his upcoming classical album Music of the Spheres. LINK→
The next set of toys for web designers to play with… LINK→
…waiting with great anticipation… LINK→
“It’s going to be a great show,” says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. “The Moon is new on August 12th–which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors.” How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower’s peak. LINK→
