*aptronym (n): A name that inadvertently describes its bearer’s occupation.
I think my personal favourites from this list have to be Dr. Kevin Blinder the Opthamologist, Les Plack the dentist, and Dr. Bonnie Beaver, the gynaecologist.
Author: Dan
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The Devil is in the detail
I spotted a couple of links to this earlier in the week but only just got round to checking it out – Swede Tomas Nilsson has reimagined Little Red Riding Hood for a school project and the result is great:
Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
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The Personal Fudge Factor
Another talk from TED – this one’s making sense of our morals, specifically cheating and stealing and the factors affect how likely we are to cheat (the fudge factor of the title).
The conclusion about intuition and the difficulty in believing that your own intuition might be wrong is something that definitely rings true for me (as I’m sure Gadsby will attest!)
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I was with you up until the 7up
Slight worryingly this is apparently what my Granda has for breakfast – I definitely remember the mound of various cereals and fruits but the 7up’s a new one on me.
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Bourne again?
I think I need this book.
Neil’s new book, Emergency, teaches you how to become Jason Bourne.
Multiple passports, moving assets, lock-picking, escape and evasion, foraging, even how to cross borders without detection.
Tim Ferriss has excerpts from the book, and reading through I think in all honesty I lack:
- The money
- The balls
To actually move all my assets into limited liability companies, become a citizen of a tax haven and launder money, but the Urban Escape and Evasion course sounds pretty cool:
In the last forty-eight hours, I’d learned to hotwire a car, pick locks, conceal my identity, and escape from handcuffs, flexi-cuffs, ducttape, rope, and nearly every other type of restraint.
Though I doubt I’ll ever require any of these skills outside of a stag do.
(via kottke)
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