A list of classics to refresh one’s memory. I loved hearing Offenbach’s “Barbacolle” I saw the whole of “La Vita E Bella” - Roberto Benigni 
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List by: http://www.youtube.com/user/keonepax.
Excellent Risk Management/Quantitative Finance concept videos in youtube.com
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At last! I opened the ISIS puzzle! I was surprised by how it happened too, which made it even more fun.
The clues you are meant to decipher are solved within 30 minutes and are of help to understand what is going on inside the puzzle. This is the real challenge and the device uniqueness compared to most which “bare it all” and pose less of an imaginative challenge. I really enjoyed not being able to see the mechanism inside and having to work out how the thing actually worked with useful _or not so useful_ sounds, magnets, orientations, pressing-and-turning the “ISIS” cartouche, counting the rings “steps” and looking at symbol positions, looking at Egyptian symbol meanings or pronunciations… the lot.
The rings do serve a purpose. Same with the box inscriptions, but what really helped me was to draw what I understood was happening inside.
I bought my ISIS mid December 2008 and therefore, there’s no metallic key inside. I am still wondering if I want to go on with the coin find or get a Ramisis and try for the Platinum Pyramid…
Some extra notes:
The puzzle is sequential and I can see how some alterations to a given sequence can still open the puzzle. That is, the puzzle doesn’t open until you have worked out how it must be working inside and follow which steps you think will make the mechanism “give up”… or “give down” as it were. By the time you open it you get an idea of exactly how it works and curse the day someone thought of adding those rings and symbols. They can be of use but throw you off track for a while.
Also one of the clues in the US had a wording that is different from that of the clues published in the UK which should have stayed the same in my opinion as it gave the puzzle an interesting new dimension.
I’ll keep this site updated with how the adventure goes on.
Boing Boing article on how some Livejournal bloggers came up with some rather original Spaguetti-Sausage serving suggestions. Insert the dried spaguetti into the sausages and boil 
. It’s genious really, one of those things that make you wonder why you hadn’t thought of it before…
This is such a cool application! First one I did on my site:
and second one with more colours:
and one on my twin site Alexciation.com:
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course lie all the verities,
all the realities of existence;
the bliss of growth,
the glory of action,
the splendour of beauty.
For yesterday is always a dream
and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today - well lived
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a dream of hope.
Look well, therefore, tot his day!
Given the gloominess of the recession, as Waterstone’s more or less puts it: “Staying in with a book or DVD is the new IN thing 
!”. Below are some comedy DVDs I bought and liked:
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