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Country folk

May 18, 2012

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Thirty adults.  Fifteen kids.  Three rustic dwellings.  One pizza oven and a dog. The pizza oven was an unexpected addition (as was Dan Dan the dog) to what was a fantastic couple of days up at a small village near Simatai last weekend.  Naturally, the pizza oven, not being indigenous to these parts*, was knocked […]

Cascading simple information

February 18, 2011

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A nice illustration of how even the simplest of information can be distorted beyond recognition if it passes through enough people. If your message is complicated to start with, don’t expect word of mouth to produce a more faithful rendition. <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/18998570″>A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/clementvalla”>clement valla</a> on […]

Reading the 5,000

July 26, 2010

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So it turns out that a train journey back from Leeds is longer than the battery life of an iPhone.  Nevermind, in the time I did have to surf the complimentary East Coast wi-fi, I thought I’d take the opportunity to read through a number of blogs about how to increase your followers on Twitter. […]

One Red Paperclip: Or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Simple Office Supply

October 30, 2009

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A book that gallops from start to finish.  I defy you to put it down, or to take more than a day to read it!  It’s one of those annoyingly simple ideas that you wish you’d thought of, straight out of the Dave Gorman mold.  But reading Kyle’s story, it becomes apparent that few people […]

Experiencing culture shock when moving abroad

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