She’s not easy to define. I can say she’s born in 1972 and is a photogenic non-Barbie doll, but this is not enough. This is Blythe, (Gina Garan, Chronicle Books, 2002) is the book that made her famous and, later, a cult icon. See: This is Blythe blythe is go! Blythe the doll

“…Unlike Barbie, Blythe does not have a boyfriend. She also does not advertise her professional life.”.
Above: eleven entry from Show Us Your Customized Girl contest, at thisisblythe.com.

Qurple, a true story about a boy. From Flip Flop Flyin’, by Craig Robinson.

“A young american has come to visit me. He is a writer, or a lawyer, or some other profession requiring great wisdom. There is something naive and reckless about him. He’s like Charles, in a way. He seems very interested in me, he asks me a lot of questions about Wonderland and the looking glass.”.

The tangle box, by Ken Wong.

Alice in Wonderland, made dark.

Above: plate 13, detail.

“Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations.”.

A book written by James Surowiecki.

“I think the most important lesson is not to rely on the wisdom of one or two experts or leaders when making difficult decisions. That doesn’t mean that expertise is irrelevant, or that we don’t need smart people. It just means that together all of us know more than any one of us does.”.

Art. Lebedev Studio “was founded in 1995. At present, it is the largest design company in Russia.”.

“We do industrial design, graphic design, web design and interface engineering.”.

In Mandership, Artemy Lebedev writes about graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization.

From Coding. Part two :

“One of the most successful implementations of audio coding can be heard in the Moscow metro.
A male voice announces stations when the train is headed towards downtown, a female voice when it moves from the center to city outskirts (sort of a mnemonic rule: the boss calling you to work, the wife calling you home).”.

From the top: Optimus mini, world’s first keyboard with color screen; Gond, by Alexander Zhitomirsky.

Humanmetrics provides a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality classification test.

I did it.

Well, I am supposed to be an ISTP (Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving ) as described from Heiss and Butt in Typelogic .

I don’t know if I must be happy or not…

“Some stories are about how you react to a problem or conflict. Often, those are the most interesting.”.

How to write a short story, and much more, from eHow : “clear instructions on How To Do (just about) everything”. For example…

How to say no to colleagues
How to remember names
How to forgive
How to be happy

Word Spy, or “The Word Lover’s Guide to Modern Culture” by Paul McFedries, defines itself as a “site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.”.
In fact, this research reveals an unexpectedly sophisticated point of view over reality.

Look, for example, expressions as :
type-in traffic, or acoustic snooping, or ICE-number.

Or, last but not least, retrosexual:
“A man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.”.

“Mobiles are a traditional craft in Denmark, but the modern mobile was created in 1954 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe.Christian Flensted became known as the Uromager, a name impossible to translate into English, which means a maker of things mischievous and always on the move.”.Flensted mobiles.

Right: Mr. Bowlerman.

“Looking for the meaning or origin of a phrase, saying or idiom?”
Here it is: the phrase finder. For everything there is a season.