thinking is the enemy of creativity

08/11/2009

Autumn at Eltham Palace (via flickr)

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17/10/2009

Letters of Note is a growing collection of letters, memos and other correspondence all of which provide an insight into history. Some are funny, some are moving; but all are enlightening. Well worth checking out. Letters of Note

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02/09/2009

Zombies in Leicester Square on the final day of the Film4 Frightfest (via Flickr).

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20/07/2009

» The Onion (China's finest news source)

Editor at lunch T.Herman Zweibel has sold The Onion to Yu Wan Mei, the China based “global leader in fish technologies”. In the spirit of optimism I will welcome our new polymer injecting overlords. The Onion will be added to their substantial portfolio of products, which also includes Yum-E-Freez Eel Milk (“From nature’s breasts comes an appetizing and vigorous frozen eel-milk product.”) and pre-bagged Metal Fun.

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04/07/2009

Fenwick, Northumberland

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28/06/2009

» Ahoy there, fancy pants!

Sometime this summer Lucasarts are releasing an updated version of the classic adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island. The graphics and score have all been thoroughly modernised but amazingly they’ve kept all the original coding in the game as well, allowing you to switch from modern to classic Monkey Island at any point.

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01/06/2009

Cassetteboy vs The Bloody Apprentice - Contains some strong language and very crude jokes. Not a criticism, just a warning! For more of their work visit http://cassetteboy.wordpress.com/

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22/05/2009

Chocolate Custard Muffins (via My flickr) from a recipe by Roger Pizey - found via Dan Lepard and available here

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20/05/2009

“ You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others’ statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic. „

The Forer effect, discovered by psychologist Bertram R. Forer, illustrates the tendency of people to accept very general statements as applying specifically to them, even though they could describe a wide variety of people.

For more info see http://www.skepdic.com/forer.html

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