And so it goes with children ...
Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.
2015-06-18
2015-01-17
Two more favourite things
Two more favourite things put together. Richard Wiseman - esque creativity and Neil Patrick Harris come together in an Oscars commercial:
2014-12-26
X Company trailer
Remember Flashpoint? It was co-created by Toronto's own talented Stephanie Morgenstern and Mark Ellis.
Watch the trailer for their latest project, on the CBC YouTube channel:
2014-12-24
Origins of the NORAD Santa tracker
From NPR:
This Christmas Eve people all over the world will log on to the official Santa Tracker to follow his progress through U.S. military radar. This all started in 1955, with a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, now known as NORAD.
Shoup's children, Terri Van Keuren, 65, Rick Shoup, 59, and Pam Farrell, 70, recently visited StoryCorps to talk about how the tradition began.
Read more.
2014-12-20
2014-12-09
On having a grateful heart
From the Elephant Journal:
By now, most of us have heard the news: grateful people are happier, healthier and generally more fulfilled.
And while these are all really great side effects of gratitude, for me, one of the coolest things about gratitude is the way it affects the heart. The heart creates an electromagnetic field that expands up to five feet from the body. Its electrical field is 60 times stronger in amplitude than that of the brain.
Studies show that when people cultivate positive feelings, the heart’s frequency changes and its waves become smoother and more consistent, while anxiety or stress caused waves to be shorter and less organized. Though most positive feelings were capable of affecting the heart in this way, researchers noted that gratitude changed the heart’s rhythm more easily and faster than any of the others.
Read more.
2014-11-30
Mabel's cyber sale
From the Mabel's Labels Twitter feed:
Now is a great time to stock up on labels! Get our top selling items for up to 50% off :) pic.twitter.com/zYlbqfiboU
— Mabel's Labels (@mabelhood) November 30, 2014
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Disclosure: I'm a Mabel's Labels Buzzmama and I receive free products for my involvement in the program.
2014-11-23
Richard Wiseman: How to be more creative in seconds!
Interesting idea from In 59 Seconds YouTube channel:
2014-10-16
Inspirograph
In case you were looking for something to keep you unproductive for the rest of the day, have a look at Nathan Friend's Inspirograph, an online version of the classic Spirograph.
2014-10-14
Blessed
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
― Elizabeth Bibesco
Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.
2014-10-13
Things I never knew about the Salvation Army
From the Chicago Tribune:
Dear Readers: Here is a Paul Harvey broadcast from December, 1979. Several readers have sent it to me, and I think it is well worth printing during this holiday season.
AND A NEW PAIR OF SHOES
How would you like a job-long hours, hard work and low pay? You may have to settle in Atchison, Kan.-population 16,000. You will be paid $100 a week before taxes. You and your wife will have to live in a dingy one-room walk-up.
And one pot of soup will have to last four days.
But there is a fringe benefit: You get a new pair of shoes. And in those shoes you can walk from here to Eternity.
You are a single girl. How would you like a job in Chicago?
Be sure before you apply because you will not work in an immaculate skyscraper office in the Loop. You will work behind a shabby Skid Row storefront patronized by winos and cockroaches and whores, and the depraved and the diseased and the desperate. There will be rodents and more cockroaches.
But you will get a new pair of shoes-and guaranteed security here and forever after.
I set out to figure out why anybody would enlist in the Salvation Army.
Read more.
2014-10-11
Productivity vs lists
Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.
2014-10-03
Recommended daily amount of snark
From Matt Risley's Twitter feed:
Teacher asks a class to try writing a haiku. Child responds with snarkiest haiku ever. (via @reddit) pic.twitter.com/YE0VHDQDa8
— Matt Risley (@spliggle) October 2, 2014
2014-09-11
Speaking of Rube Goldberg machines
A light, prism and mirror Rube Goldberg machine as a commercial for a Japanese high-speed optical internet service. Amazing.
2014-09-01
Leclerc's Ice Bucket Challenge: Rube Goldberg Machine!
One of my favourite ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos. From Canadian Eric Leclerc.
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