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Chocolate and Vodka :: Questionable Content: “Best online comic I’ve seen in ages and ages. I suggest you start with the first one, and work your way through, rofling and loling as you go. Then, when you get to the latest one, you can suffer like the rest of us, waiting for the next.”

It really is good – joins my favourites (Megatokyo, Sinfest, Diesel Sweeties, and being a bit of a geek, Dilbert) – thanks, Suw! Shame about the lack of RSS feed, though, that makes it difficult to keep up with.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | BBC braced for Springer criticism: “The organisation Christian Voice will hold a prayer vigil outside BBC Television Centre from 2030 GMT, prior to the show’s broadcast on BBC Two.”

Oh, come on. I’m sure David Soul’s performance isn’t going to be *that* bad!

Tobby and PachiPlatform game from Toshiba – play online. The first link seems to be for playing. The second is probably instructions, but if you can read this, there’s a good chance you won’t be able to read the instructions. Mouse left and right to move the platforms, click and pull the circle in the middle to launch the doggy. Try to avoid the spikes, and don’t drop your puppy.

If he can rescue Pachi, it looks like there’s some puppy lovin’ coming up.

Screen Cleaner

Screen dirty? Needs cleaning? New easy method. Flash. Squeaks a little.

The Museum of Food Anomalies: “Yes, Eric, your onion ring does look like the QuickTime 3 logo! You think this could be a new wave of corporate product placement?”

Mutant M&Ms, and strange grapes.

It’s been covered on all the mobile sites already, so if you use ActiveSync, you probably already know that Microsoft released version 3.8 (from 3.7.1) yesterday. Not much to add, except that I’ve not heard any reports of problems so far. I’ve installed it on two machines, and I can’t tell the difference so far.

Boing Boing: 120-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo: "Some people in Kenya rescued a dehydrated baby hippo that had been separated from its herd. The released it into an enclosure in a sanctuary, and it ran over to a giant tortoise, and is now ‘inseparable’ say officials."

Rufford Craft Centre is located within Rufford Country Park, in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. They offer art and craft courses to people of all ages, and coming up on their what’s on list include workshops on folded books, chinese brush painting and willow hurdles.

Living Out Loud by Keri Smith

Things for Grown Ups to Make and Do

Lying somewhere between the colourful soppy cuddliness of Sark and the slap-in-the-face reality check of Hugh McLeod is this book, more "Things to make and do" than "Things to think and feel."

This bright, spiral bound book contains suggestions for practical creative exercises. Some of the exercises are of the Sark variety – making a wish jar, shrines for treasured objects, the ‘Living Out Loud’ board game, but the advice within the text is good, sound stuff.

The author offers advice on how to organise your creative space, how to recapture the element of play ("I’d like my crayons back now, please.") and how to go about getting started on taking the risks and attempting making a living as an artist.

It’s a lovely, tactile little book with lots of fold out sections, stickers and bits to cut out. If this fails to encourage some creative play, nothing will. Who says this sort of thing has to end with the Richard Scarry books?

Links

• Living Out Loud on Amazon UK
Keri Smith’s Blog

we make money not art: The memo paper pad with the canned plant: “a memo paper pad that comes with a small plant hidden in a tin. Each time you take a paper out of the pad, it reminds you to water the plant.”