Are prosthetic limbs faux parts?

Long time readers may recall my earlier solution to my snoring problem, which was probably not the healthiest solution long term. The sinus surgery also didn’t help with that (although everything it was meant to fix, it has thus far).
Monique had seen something about a mouthguard type of thing – basically most snoring is caused [...]

Have you ever noticed how often when an old woman dies, her husband dies within a year or two?, I think it’s because their ability to organise themselves has completely wasted away after many years of their wives organising their lives for them, once she dies, they suffer extreme stress organising a funeral, then [...]

In 2004, The Caravan of Light travelled through India, Nepal and Tibet, all on camels. They went as a learning expedition, both for their own experience, but also documenting all the planning and information they’ve gathered as a teaching and learning resource, for schools and also the curious (eg, me!), and journalling their progress.
The [...]

www.useit.com is an excellent site with loads of articles about making your website’s usefulness its priority – you know when you just want to find the price of a pair of Flash Gordon underpants but you have to :

watch a Flash (haha) movie
guess which of the random scifi-looking icons is the shop
dig manually through the [...]

Via the Wittenburg Door, a longish video (sorry link is gone) from a show called Heaven & Earth, examining Prestonwood Baptist in Texas. If your church has a gym, food court, shopping centre, day care centre….where does it stop being a church with a shop in it and start being a shop with [...]

I think we need a tradition in Australia of Winter Solstice parties. It’s all very well in the old countries, where most of what we might call European Christmas tradition comes from ancient pagan traditions, dispelling the cold and darkness to welcome the lengthening of days etc etc yada yada. Things like the [...]

Here’s a neat new feature you can amuse yourself with for a few seconds. I’ve added a page that generates a cloud of the 200 most used words on Neuromesh, sized according to how common they are (biggest=most used). If you hold the mouse over a word, it’ll tell you how many times [...]

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.
This is a handy repository [...]

Have you ever noticed how many dual flush toilets are faulty? I think that’s a major cause of Australia’s water shortage – you do half flush, and a decent trickle continues forever after you walk away. So you finally come back later and hit the whole flush button and it fixes it. There [...]