- 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
Hey well done for speaking, at least you were early on in the day. Look forward to seeing some audio /video like last time. Was it as good as last year?
I really enjoyed your talk Gemma. Nice to be on early, get it over with and enjoy the rest of the day, wasn’t it?
I missed half of Roo’s talk as I was dealing with powerpoint/microphone issues, but handily, he’s uploaded it here http://rooreynolds.com/2008/06/22/lego-is-full-of-win-my-interesting-2008-talk/ and you should really have a look as its fab
Yeah well done, great talk and overall a fab day.