Archive for November 2008

Some of the World’s Strangest Buildings

Here are some extremely strange and eccentric buildings.  I love the Stone House in Portugal!

I went to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain last year and thought the building was incredible but also remember the huge spider and dog made from flowers outside too.  Long live artistic, eccentric thinking!


A scary metal spider outside the Guggenheim

The flower dog outside the Guggenheim.

Incredibots

Lots of fun and frustration to be had here trying to design and build trucks to move things.  The physics engine is superb!

World Map Quiz


Do you know your Belarus from your Benin?  Your Nepal from from your Namibia?

Here’s the site to test your knowledge of world countries

Beautiful Sea Creatures

We know more about the surface of the earth than we do of our own ocean.  What other astonishing animals are there lying undiscovered? 

These beautiful animals are called Nudibranchs which are soft bodied, shell-less molluscs or their scientifc term of sea slugs.  When you see how beautiful some of them are you’ll realise how I find it amazing that they belong to the same group of animals that eat all the plants in my garden.

Congo Crisis


Having recently read Blood River which was the brilliant story of a journalist’s journey down the modern day Congo River, I was not surprised to see that the country seems to be imploding under a typically ugly African Civil war.  The images from the Boston Globe are stunning and yet so typically depressingly familiar for ceratin parts of Africa.

How good is your punctuation?

Anything that’s fun and educational is a winner for me.  Lynee Truss has been the high priestess of punctuation for some time and her book Eats, Shoots and Leaves a national succerss.  Persoanlly I’ve never been able to work out where the apostrophe goes on Jesus’s’ Sandal’s’ !  This quiz will hopefully teach me!

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