four cool versions of a very great song

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Eurythmics. Oh Annie.

And just so you don’t get a complete brain collapse from the French acidtrance-hardrave and Marilyn combo…

(yes I did make up the genre ‘acidtrance-hardrave’)

Insignificance

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Ain’t that the truth.

 

(photo from Colours of India on reasonpad and possibly somewhere else originally? Quote from my office desk calendar! Nice…)

really want one of these

Even though it would make me feel like I’m in some sort of Navajo desert rehab complex. But I can imagine they’d be pretty comfortable.

The above-the-water one would take some mad balancing, levitating skills to get into though…

(Original designer is Dedon. dornob for original article. Possibly Springwise for original tip-off although inbox clear-out this morning has made me scatter-minded).

love smile

‘The love smile “is about embracing and caring,” Simon-Thomas said, “which we think is really different from the coy smile, which is more about getting sexual pleasure“.’

Apparently researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have identified six different types of smiles that we humans have. I love that this is what they’re studying in Berkeley. It’s something in the air on that west coast of America isn’t it…

Click for the rest of the article via The Age

GOOD NEWS

The newspapers were all crazy-blue this morning! So I thought I’d create my own front page for you.  Here are some GREAT things that have happened in the world this morning (or very recently..)

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(apologies for all the orange, hyperlinked text. I still haven’t figured out how to change hyperlink colour in this blog template!)

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• Man cheers up 800 people a day!
• Someone found a REAL message in a bottle.
• Women are advancing further in school than at any other time in recent history and this is saving more and more children’s lives.
• Someone owns a miniature cow!
• 27 year old designer consistently saves the world in pretty cool ways.
• Lots of famous creative people gather to say Happy Birthday to a pretty powerful someone who we all wish could still be around to hear it.
• The British Museum, home to the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles (and a museum on the verge of bankruptcy when I lived in England ten years ago, after it received only 3000pounds in public donations and virtually no government funding) receives a 25 million pound donation from John Sainsbury.
• Happy looking, golden fur, two-legged dog gives hope to injured Gulf War troops!
• Library gets 35 year overdue book back. AND doesn’t fine them!
• Teenage brothers design simple, cheap, environmental and sustainable solution to world hunger.
• Corporation finally recognises that happy family = happy worker = happy profit.
• You can now buy your friends a cocktail over the net via your iPhone!
• Five Indian cousins sneakily reclaim urban land from developers bringing back flora, fauna, water and even leopards!
• Britain’s largest ever Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard (1,500 gold and silver pieces!!!) is found by amateur treasure hunter with metal detector (this is a bit late but still, it’s so cool!)
• And now that treasure is on display for YOU AND ME at the British Museum.
• An economic theory (and practice) development to REALLY get excited about.
• This is not that newsworthy, I just like it. Plus I’m going to buy it so I can do this.

(ps. all links via The Happy News and Daily Good)

(pps. I wanted you all to read something happy this morning)