Posts tagged ‘Interesting2008’
Interesting things from Interesting2008
- World of Warcraft is roughly the same size as the Death Star
- There are 28 billion UK coins in circulation, worth £3 ½ billion
- Boring audiobooks don’t help you get to sleep. They have to be a bit thrilling – although its OK if the writing is terrible
- ‘dongle’ and ‘waggle’ are funny words
- Rhopography is the study of the overlooked and everyday
- Hiraeth is a Welsh word that sort of means the sense of knowing you’re always in a place
and
- horses are scared of rustling crisp packets because an unevolved part of their brain tells them that the rustling sounds like a lion about to attack them
Speaking at Interesting has to rank in my Top Ten Scariest Moments, but I’m really glad I did it.
My pics from Interesting are here and the Interesting2008 flickr pool is here
We’re going to Lon-don, to Interesting2008
So I’m off to London for Interesting 2008 tomorrow, held again at the lovely Conway Hall. If you’re going too, please come over and say Hello.
I’m really looking forward to it – last year’s Interesting was brilliant and yes, very very Interesting too. I’m also slightly nervous as I’m taking one of the mini speaker slots to talk abut why horses are scared of crisp packets.
To give you a little preview, I popped the general gist of my talk into the lovely wordle and it came up with this:
Lions, Tigers and Bears
So I’ll be doing a (very short) speech at Interesting 2008 called ‘Lions, Tigers and Bears – why horses are scared of crisp packets’.
I will be trying very hard not to have any Crisp Packet Monster related falling off incidents before then which might prevent my attendance…
