Disclaimer: the word summarised as "b.s" appears on this page. Sensitive eyes go buy goggles. Some morning fun: Ever get annoyed with Buzz words/phrases? Or Don’t want to take yourself too seriously for the work you do as a consultant/marketer/business person? This is for you: The Web Economy Bullshit Generator. Simply put in a phrase [...]

Alice laughed. "There’s no use trying," she said: "one CAN’T believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven’t had much practice" said the Queen.   – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872, Chapter 5 Must be a week for pen names - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson = Lewis Carroll

"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the Artist: Give me leave to do my utmost" – Isak Dineson – Babette’s Feast Thank you Kovari. Thank you Martin.  Thank you Alice. Thank you Nicole. Thank you Andrea. Thank you Diana. Thank you. PS Isak Dineson is actually the pen [...]

oh the joy of anagrams – and the power of a single word: it contains so much! Why do we contrain them so? Fun and movement => knowledge and change and … de-light!

This title sounds, to me, like that of a fairy tale. And perhaps it is. My life can be like that, Natalie, is, afterall, the anagram of "In a Tale". What is in a name… This narrative is also an example of how we can move in the direction of clarity even when not certain…and how clarity will (begin to) emerge [...]

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." – Nobel prizewinner Czeslaw Milosz** Perhaps we in the animal kingdom can learn much from those in our plant neighbours… Let us take a lesson from a word commonly used for plants:  tropism [...]

"Irooa" = "I-ran-out-of-acronyms" Thanks to Josh Ratner for the find.

"I got lost in NY one day Found myself on library way Below my feet set poems in stone There caught in a butterfly net Set words i had not yet met And yet, I had always known: "the universe is made of stories, not of atoms" – Muriel Rukeyser"   – poem by Natalie Shell [...]

A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a [...]

Anagram madness thanks to Thomer!