I just discovered, (thanks Kirst), Harold’s Planet and have spent the last minutes playing on the Harold’s Planet Blog
…oodles of fun and … just lots of fun really…

Well done to Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar from Last Lemon Productions
…couldn’t resist a second image:

Enjoy the good mood and the seabreeze!

"Making money is art and working is art and good bsiness is the best art of all"
- Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
My accountant recently told me "I am here to do great work for honest clients and make good money" about his business and I thought - well, there is someone who has the right attitude! I [...]

WikiMapia "a project to help describe the whole planet Earth"
Currently in early stages, I quite like the concept - and you can add links to places yourself…will be interesting to see how it evolves and who picks it up…
Happy playing 

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place."
- Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveler

…you received a letter from a friend in the post?

"The mind can rationalize anything, but the stomach can only take so much."
Nobel prizewinner Czeslaw Milosz
The context: he wrote a book called The Captive Mind about intellectuals in repressed environments. He notes that the intellectuals who became dissidents were not necessarily the ones with the strongest minds, but those with the weakest stomachs.

"Change is a notion which is drawn upon in a largely unthinking, but very significant, way so that it takes on an almost magical character.
Change is like a totem before which we must prostrate ourselves and in the face of which we are powerless." - The Festish of Change
‘The snail! The snail!’, they cry. [...]

"What is the Secret to Happiness?…
What "Every rabbi, philosopher, and grandmother has been telling us that for 2000 years"
The latest research from Harvard’s School of Psychology is on Happiness - by Daniel Gilbert, who has incidently just released a book: Stumbling on Happiness.
I read about it in today’s Boston Globe  (the quote in bold is directly from [...]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes" - Marcel Proust
Am wanting to create some form of 6 thinking hats equivalent with lens…ie you pop something over your eyes and thus can only think a particular way…I think different ways of thinking take practice, or else, [...]

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage