Guerrilla Tree Sculptor Takes Over Yorkshire Town
The mystery artist responsible for these intricate tree carvings is local artist Tommy Graggs. Luckily for him, the locals rather liked the work and are hoping for more! Currently three sculptures have been completed--a dragon, a kingfisher and a ghostly figure--standing between 10 and 20 feet high.
via Guerrilla Tree Sculptor Takes Over UK Town : TreeHugger.
Placement Service a Boon for People with Aspergers
Many people with Aspergers syndrome have difficulties in the job market and workplace, but they also have special abilities that many employers crave. A Danish company has found a way to bring the two together and is exporting its successful job-placement concept to other countries.
MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US | UK news | guardian.co.uk
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad."
The videogame book Martin Amis doesn’t want to talk about
“Anything a writer disowns is of interest,” wrote Leith, “particularly if it’s a frivolous thing and particularly if, like Amis, you take seriousness seriously.” He’s got a point; any book so callously orphaned by its own creator has to be worth looking into. This is especially true if the book in question happens to be a guide to early 1980s arcade games.
via The Millions : The Arcades Project: Martin Amis’ Guide to Classic Video Games.
The Japanese do Valentine’s Day differently
Valentine's Day is celebrated in an interesting manner on two different dates in the country of Japan. On February 14, female present gifts to their boyfriends or any man close to them. The favor is returned to ladies on the White Day celebrated on March 14 when men pamper women who gave them gifts a month before on Valentines Day.
The final words of James Clark
Uh, I don't know, Um, I don't know what to say. I don't know. (pauses) I didn't know anybody was there. Howdy.
