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Happy Halloween! Some links Halloween Burn's poetry Witches Hat Maze How to make an animated witches hat Halloween Food Gross Food! Scottish Halloween Spooky story Can we imagine a world without TV? Today in 1925, John Logie Baird, from his attic workshop in London, produced the first moving image on his television screen. The model was a 15-year-old office boy, William Taynton, who had to be bribed with half-a-crown to sit for the experiment because he was frightened of the bright lights. ....... a few interesting links.... Jeff Buckly's Songs to No-one 1991-92 is out now. Review is here Turner Prize .......and for anyone else who had to suffer studying Mr and Mrs Andrews for weeks on end "We all know sex sells but haven’t we got past ‘boys with toys’?" asks, Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt in her attack of the recent, advertisement of the motor show show. It's an interesting debate. Do pictures of scantily clad females really encourage us to buy cars? Tell me what you think. Due to some strange problem with the system the posting below is not editable so I'm afraid the ugly bits will have to stay until I can get it sorted out. The correct ending to the post was meant to read......These and other art story updates from Art Review Sex in the City? Not according to Joel Stein in Time.com Perhaps they should take note from the Brazillian dance company who want to let the music speak with the Sex in the City? Not according to Stein in Time.com Perhaps they should take note from the Brazillian dance company who want to let the music speak with the "rhythm that is underneath the rhythm." These and other art story updates from
Malcolm Forbes was a media tycoon who did everything to the max. Now a "landmark auction" is about to take place selling his collection of Victorian Art. "He took to riding a Harley Davidson in his 40s, which led rapidly to a collection of 70 motorbikes." I think I would have liked to have met him. A bit closer to home the Stirling McRoberts Art Centre has reopened. This time with the emphasis on art for children. I love this idea - nurture them when they are young and they will have a love for life. I'm all for boasting about relations and name dropping when appropriate!! "Today in 1860, the first professional golf tournament - and the first Open - was held at Prestwick. It was won by Willie Park Snr of Musselburgh, who beat the favourite, Old Tom Morris, with a score of 174." Research into family history reveals some interesting stuff about this. However, although the golfing genes seem to have bypassed me and any talk of it sends me into a deep coma, I still have some very competent relations. Well done to all of them - you know who you are. I will get to that driving range one day. "In a nutshell, redheads are likely to experience more pain from a given stimulus and therefore require more anaesthesia to alleviate that pain," . Mmmm, 2 children, no anaesthesia.................. Not convinced about the accuracy of this one, perhaps they haven't quite got to, the root, of the investigation! What happens to a site when it's author dies? James-Harvey-Stout wrote many books poems, songs and general words of wisdom and niceness. He died before February 2000 - the date his host site contract was due to expire. But thanks to Internet Cemetry his and many other sites are still available to browse online or download. Words from beyond. It is a humbling find. Today is National Poetry Day. I was going to post links to the scottish poetry library and other useful events but every one I have looked at so far this morning is unavailable. But I want to see some nice poems today from everyone. I always knew it really but now it is official. I am a liberal airhead. Which is much better than being a raging facist and it only took 30 questions and a few split second decisions to find out. The F Test was designed fifty years ago, when the Authoritarian Personality studies attempted to "construct an instrument that would yield an estimate of fascist receptivity at the personality level." As it says at the bottom of the quiz "It should be noted here that that the authors concluded that it had "still to be demonstrated" if the F-scale actually did, in fact, measure fascist receptivity at a personality level. They were sure it measured something --- but not exactly sure what." This is Scottish mental health awareness week and yet despite the campaign, there is still a stigma in this country about mental health. I found very few useful links on the web but there are some interesting facts if you look at the Scottish Executive web site. Some of the facts are interesting. The chances are, you will know someone who has, at some point in their lives been affected by mental health problems. One in four Scots have. It is a scary statistic but awareness of this sensitive issue is still harbouring somewhere in the dark ages. The campaign is aimed at making people realise it is ok to ask for help. For this and more health issues check the healthy pages For those of you who have a love of maps, I have been reminded about the National Library of Scotland's digital library Map section. This is a really great resource. It's a pity they don't have arial photography - but I know a man who does :-)
There is a certain amount of irony in a world where we can celebrate the anniversary of the Soviet Union putting the first spacecraft, Sputnik I, into orbit around Earth in 1957 and yet we cannot manage to feed the world's population. Madaloo James is just one little girl who will die of the famine which has already started to spread across Malawi and Southern Africa. Her two-year-old sister, Chikondi died of starvation in March. It is at times like this that we can feel incredible inadequate and guilty for every morcel of food we see wasted in this country. The next time you go out for a meal, tuck into your Big Mac or scrape the left-overs which you were too full to eat, into the bin, spare a thought for Madaloo and her parents. I don't usually advocate sending donations to anywhere -it is not the purpose of this blog - however, if you do wish to help, just a little bit, Donations to World Vision, which works with the affected communities in Malawi and other southern African countries, can be made by calling 0800 50 10 10. This is something we can all take a little responsibility for. So the dirt throwing has started between Edwina and John, well to be more precise between Edwina and....... well just Edwina really. I've heard so many terrible puns over the last few days about revenge and cold and curry and ............well it's all pretty boring stuff and as most reporters have stated, fairly stomach churning. What does she think she is gaining from it all? Perhaps she should have done the jealousy test before embarking on the affair............go on try it, if you are brave enough. "Married women with children and a job had the fewest mental health problems of the female sample, suggesting that kids are not as stress-inducing as some parents like to claim." ..........who are they trying to kid!!!!! According to a report in the New Scientist psychologist David de Vaus argues that sociologist Jessie Bernard's 1972 research - which basically concluded that women were less happy if married, than men - is no longer true and that perhaps women have become much happier over the last 30 years. Psychologists and Sociologists disagreeing..........now there's a novel concept. Today in 1568, the Bannatyne MS, the most extensive collection of early Scottish poetry extant, was made by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant, while staying at Newtyle in Angus to escape the plague. |
