Last time I got hooked on Monitter was during the Mumbai attacks last November when my need for real time information got so intense that it became difficult to deattach my eyes from the computer screen. This time it’s the Iran elections (#iranelections) that have really got me. Sat here feeling so overwhelmed and helpless [...]

Here are a couple of really interesting videos by Erin, a stroke victim at 29 in recovery. In the first video you hear her explaining her ‘Alien Hand Syndrome’ and watch as she tries to control her left hand’s activity with her right. Two years later she is still partially sighted and struggling to gain [...]

The LA Times has an interesting piece up about Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch to the last Chinese emperor.
Sun Yaoting was 8 when his father castrated him with a single swoop of a razor. The year was 1911, and China was in turmoil. Just a few months later rebels deposed the emperor, overturned centuries of [...]

Unfortunately Craft magazine have printed their last magazine! Volume 10 of Craft is to be the last printed edition and the future of Craft remains in the hands of the online community. I think this is rubbish!
As much as I enjoy the blog I look forward to the print edition hitting the door mat and [...]

The United States of America’s 44th President.