ISTP

2006-01-14

Humanmetrics provides a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality classification test.

I did it.

Well, I am supposed to be an ISTP (Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving ) as described from Heiss and Butt in Typelogic .

I don’t know if I must be happy or not…

Categories : psychology

How to write a short story

2006-01-13

“Some stories are about how you react to a problem or conflict. Often, those are the most interesting.”.

How to write a short story, and much more, from eHow : “clear instructions on How To Do (just about) everything”. For example…

How to say no to colleagues
How to remember names
How to forgive
How to be happy

Categories : books

Word Spy

2006-01-08

Word Spy, or “The Word Lover’s Guide to Modern Culture” by Paul McFedries, defines itself as a “site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.”.
In fact, this research reveals an unexpectedly sophisticated point of view over reality.

Look, for example, expressions as :
type-in traffic, or acoustic snooping, or ICE-number.

Or, last but not least, retrosexual:
“A man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.”.

Categories : language

Mobiles

2006-01-07
Mobiles are a traditional craft in Denmark, but the modern mobile was created in 1954 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe.Christian Flensted became known as the Uromager, a name impossible to translate into English, which means a maker of things mischievous and always on the move.”.Flensted mobiles. Flensted mobiles

Right: Mr. Bowlerman.

Categories : art

For everything there is a season

2006-01-05

“Looking for the meaning or origin of a phrase, saying or idiom?”
Here it is: the phrase finder. For everything there is a season.

Categories : language

The famous bean dish

2006-01-04

A Genius, two Partners and a Dupe – Nobody is the Greatest (Damiano Damiani, 1975) is the first movie I’ve seen in my life.

So I must mention Terence Hill‘s website; there is a wide archive of photos and informations about his movies.
And, most of all, his famous recipe: the bean dish seen in the spaghetti-western They Call Me Trinity (E.B.Clucher, 1970).

Categories : movies

Micro compact home

2005-12-28
micro compact home “The micro compact home is a lightweight, modular and mobile minimal dwelling for one or two people.
Its compact dimensions of 2.6m cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances.
…The tiny cube provides a double bed on an upper level and working table and dining space for four or five people on a lower level.
The kitchen bar is accordingly arranged to serve these two levels.
The entrance lobby has triple use and functions as a bathroom and drying space for clothing.
Storage is provided off each of these four functioning spaces.”.
Categories : design

Art-e-zine

2005-12-27

Art-e-zine: patterns of paper, photos, paints, inks, stamps, altered books. Play with art. Don’t try explain.

Right: Sew Vintage Punk by Charlotte Kemsley (detail). Sew Vintage Punk
Categories : art

The Cubes

2005-12-26

The Cubes “spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.
…In this office, you’re the boss!”.

The corporate protester “should not be allowed on company property under any circumstances.”.
Don’t care, he costs only $4,95.

Categories : design

361°

2005-12-19

Poetry. An unusual, special text: 361°.
Extract: Piero Selmi, poet and my good friend.

Categories : books