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siarosh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:49:28 +0000

Small things making a huge difference

siarosh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:13:02 +0000

I would love to have been in that brainstorming meeting when whoever it was came up with the idea. Very clever; very out of the box.

It’s good to laugh at childish things once in a while

siarosh — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:52:35 +0000

Usability, inclusivity, industrial design, aging population…

siarosh — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:20:49 +0000

A wonderful example of a simple solution to an age old problem.

You just have to laugh and laugh

siarosh — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:15:35 +0000

Boob squeeze

siarosh — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:04:42 +0000

How did this get past the photo editor?

A new take on ethnographic research

siarosh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:17:59 +0000

I love this. Quite inspirational.

Even teachers need to occasionally have a collective giggle

siarosh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:20:11 +0000

Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners.

I promise you I knew this all along (AP)

siarosh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:44:37 +0000

Never mind that TV show that asks if you’re smarter than a fifth-grader. Is your memory better than a young chimp’s? Maybe not. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

The outrageously politically incorrect adverts from the time equality forgot

siarosh — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:23:03 +0000

A real eye opener for those of you under 30 years old. See more examples from a new book: You Mean A Woman Can Open It?: The Woman’s Place In The Classic Age Of Advertising