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Dr. Allan Wooley was my school Chemistry teacher and ‘Form Master’ as they called the teacher that was responsible not just for your academic performance, but your general well being. And he really cared about people’s well being.
Making it all the more tragic that he apparently took his own life last week.
He was a great and memorable teacher. Nobody can have a more widespread, meaningful and lasting legacy than a great teacher.
Daniel Tammet is simultaneously extraordinarily gifted and well balanced.
His blog is the best thing I’ve read in ages. There, I have learned, amongst other things, that the collective noun for collective nouns is a ‘peculiar’.
I’ve put the documentary about him posted on Smashing Telly it’s a must see.
Darrin sent in this graffiti gem:
“A few years ago, in the men’s room in Fanelli’s Tavern, downtown Manhattan:”
“(in large letters) I fucked your mother!”
“(below, in a smaller hand) Go home, Dad. You’re drunk.”
The latest Wists shopping blog, Popgloss launches today.
Popgloss covers womens clothing and accessories, an eclectic mix of quirky and fun or innovative design - fashion without the attitude.
It has a similar feel to Cribcandy, lots of pictures few words, updated dozens of times a day and with the ability to save pictures and links to anything you like with one click.
My wife has put together a Wist of bathroom and makeup products, such as solid shampoo, that should be allowed in carry-on luggage, with the no liquids ban.
Rooting around a nutty Christian website, which debunks UFO chasers with stuff that makes the maddest of the tin foil hat people look positively sane:
Intelligent Life in Outer Space?
“That’s right, one of the reasons that God made the Moon, solar system and stars was to provide a way for us to distinguish the passage of time (days, months and years) and predict the coming of seasons. Without these heavenly bodies, the job of keeping time and navigation would have been far more difficult.”
So the reason for creating 99.9999999999999..99% percent of everything was so that the 0.0000000000000…001% have a wristwatch.
Thats the best argument for a blind watchmaker I’ve ever heard.
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