10 non-work-related items that I found fun or interesting

Souptoys Toybox
How-To Geek tells us about a set of toys and playsets for your desktop that come wrapped up in a nice easy-to-install package.
When you start the program up you will be presented with an initial window full of toys. You can choose to play with these toys or move on to the playsets that come with SoupToys Toybox.
Go back to your childhood and play with the toys.
Download Souptoys Toybox
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Both novelists and philosophers ask big questions and try to impose order on the muddle of the world. But can a novelist write philosophically?...more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
God is not a feminist. You think otherwise? Eve is a disobedient, dangerous temptress. And the women of the New Testament, well, they're either prostitutes or virgins. Take your pick, ladies...more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Gandhi’s commitment to nonviolence was admirable but impractical. As a response to fascism, it was disastrous... more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Forget Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Much of America’s female power elite was groomed at a small, austere, obscure Catholic college... more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Velázquez’s Las Meninas is shown in a Prado gallery that often teems with people. This great work of art was painted, however, for an audience of one... more

At the point of originally reading this article (some considerable time ago) it was my favourite painting. As I checked the link to include it in this post, and re-read the article, Las Meninas is, once again, my favourite painting. There have been lots in between including several in the Prado which I visited as part of my 60th birthday present.

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The gadgets that enrich and overwhelm you originate in MIT’s Media Lab, where the most important discipline is no discipline at all... more

via Marcus Zillman’s blog
FunGames24 is a comprehensive site of online games with specific sections on action, adventure, board games, casino, customize, dress-up, driving, education, fighting, other, puzzles, rhythm and shooting.
I wouldn’t know about the comprehensiveness of this resource. In my days writing abstracts for learning opportunity databases “comprehensive” was a word I was taught to avoid at all costs – unless I was absolutely sure that it was true! But I have to say that there’s enough choice here to keep addicts busy for days!

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Philosophy is not an attempt to secure new knowledge about the mind or beauty or right conduct, says Peter Hacker. It is not even a cognitive discipline... more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Thelonius Monk's audiences heard music that was, to their worldly sensibility, better than a miracle: not just astonishing, it was believable too... more

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