Category Archives: Communication

Encouraging literacy in memory of Douglas Adams

Posted on May 17, 2022 by peNdantry

Towel Day is just over a week away! Gery Deer, Towel Day Ambassador for 2022, has launched a literacy initiative to raise funds to help improve reading skills. Literacy is the silver bullet to poverty, ignorance, and socioeconomic issues. Gery … Continue reading →

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Happy 🌎 Earth 🌍 Month 🌏

Posted on April 12, 2022 by peNdantry

Spring has sprungThe grass is rizI wonder where dem boidies is?Some say da boid is on da wingBut dat’s absoid –I always thought da wing was on da boid… My Dad (1927–2012) 10 ways you can shape a brighter future … Continue reading →

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The greatest weapon in the green warrior’s arsenal

Posted on April 5, 2022 by peNdantry

tl;dr: Just Say No. From birth to puberty, a hamster doubles its weight each week. If it didn’t stop when mature, as animals do, and continued to double on its first birthday, we would be staring at a nine billion … Continue reading →

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An apology (and probably too much information)

Posted on March 29, 2022 by peNdantry

I’m really sorry if this is TMI… My nonagenarian Mum passed away last month. She did so on my birthday, guaranteeing that I’ll never, ever be able to forget her (not that I ever could, nor want to, anyway). I … Continue reading →

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Using leaf appropriation to tackle the climate crisis

Posted on March 22, 2022 by peNdantry

Readers of my wibblettes over the years may have got the impression that I’m not exactly a fan of advertising (and that would be right). Even when such ‘communications’ give an honest portrayal of the product or service on offer, … Continue reading →

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A magical interlude: the mystery calculator

Posted on February 22, 2022 by peNdantry

In 1957, Leon Festinger wrote a book about cognitive dissonance, in which he suggested that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency, and that when presented with conflicting information, the struggle to reconcile the differences causes mental stress. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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On expiry of a custom domain name

Posted on February 15, 2022 by peNdantry

My post last week, ‘How to ensure that your blog lives forever, revisited‘, needs a follow-up, as an unanticipated situation arose. (I would probably have spotted it myself in time, but then again, perhaps not, and I am indebted to Goldie … Continue reading →

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How to ensure that your blog lives forever, revisited

Posted on February 8, 2022 by peNdantry

The World Wide Web has a serious design flaw, one that ensures that link rot is endemic. The domain name system (DNS) requires that domains be regularly maintained; a fee must be paid to keep the name in operation. In effect, it ignores the inevitability of death. Continue reading →

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Are We All Gullible?

Posted on January 30, 2022 by peNdantry

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
While conspiracy theories have always been around, they have seemingly run rampant of late, the one with the most adherents being the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” from the former guy.  And…

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Climate change: it wasn’t me, it was the other fellah

Posted on January 18, 2022 by peNdantry

This news is half a year old. I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen nothing about it at all on mainstream media. (Could that possibly have anything to do with that being controlled by the same greedy lying folk … Continue reading →

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