The power of a good story

My video of the day. Brilliant.

Random Croquet trivia

Croquet was once an olympic sport:

Croquet

There was only ever one croquet competition in Olympic Games history, held in 1900 in Paris. France won all events, which is not surprising as only French competitors took part. In this event, the first women to take part in the Olympic Games occurred on June 28, 1900. It was also not a success with the spectators. Only one fan watched the events – an Englishman who had travelled from Nice especially for the occasion. No wonder we have not seen this event at the Olympics again.

A shame it was taken out of the schedule. The world is also the poorer for not having these sports in the olympic games.

Teenie Blogs

I stumbled accross a brilliant article in Freitag online today which talks about teenagers being the new blogging royalty. This doesn’t surprise me at all as  more than anything teenagers have more TIME than aynone else to do things. When I was a teenager (sooo long ago ) I remember I would spend whole evenings reading or chilling or whatever. Now I have a billion other things I need to get done / want to do in the precious few hours between work and sleep. Teenagers are familiar with technology and can easily access tools to create relatively sophisticated blogs. It is also REALLY easy nowadays to insert picture, video, audio and interactive material into a space online, without having to learn complicated computer languages. Nevertheless I take my hat off to these blogs :

Style Rookie: A 13 year old fashionista. I actually love this blog at the moment. It’s really refreshing and reminds me a lot of me. I used to make loads of scrapbooks of stuff and was (and still am) an obsessive picture horder. My old room was covered in pictures I’d cut out of style magazines. Dressing up, obsessing about pretty things and taking photos were (and still are) high on my list of things I like to do, but she’s already a lot better than I ever was on the actual fashion.

Foodie at fifteen: food, food and more food

Ultra Culture, films, culture etc

Platform, young peole’s stuff (:)) , grungy, diverse and cool

Cool things in random places

My new favourite quick escapism site.

http://coolthingsinrandomplaces.com/

Cool Things in Random Places, A little refreshing randomness from around the globe.

Cool Things in Random Places is the manifestation of our human curiosity. Often we are confronted with striking situations or events which occur in the most random places. A collection of the most interesting random stories from travel destinations around the world. Inspiring new travel destinations and adventures.

Enjoy.

The longest poem in the world

People who spend too much time on Twitter, but a lovely idea.

http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/

How I want to get married

I seem to have weddings on the brain a bit at the moment. I went to my second wedding this year last Friday and today I found this. THIS I how I want to get married

Swan Upping

The world is a wierd and wonderful place. I discovered this today through my twitter feed where I am currently following the British Monarchy twitter feed.  The topic is Swan Upping, the centuries-old tradition of counting the swans in the UK  on stretches of the Thames in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. In England swans belong to the Monarch and it is illegal to kill them. I knew this, but what I didn’t know about was the tradition of swann upping.

Check this out: http://www.royal.gov.uk/RoyalEventsandCeremonies/SwanUpping/SwanUpping.aspx

It will restore your faith in the British Monarchy, if ever it was faltering.

Really steady hands

Website for word geeks

If you’re a word geek and you know it check this out: http://www.wordnik.com

Photofunia

I discovered the Photofunia website last night. It lets you put photos into random settings such as on the cover of a magazine or on billboards. Like this:

It is very cool and I can tell hours of fun will be had.