Christine Burgmer | Blog

The Oatmeal shows us the 9 types of crappy handshakes.

California Distance Learning Project has some lovely stories about housing for you to read or to listen to.

I bet you don’t know the twenty things worth knowing about beer!  Let’s see what The Oatmeal has to tell us.

Well, I know that we say that “laughter is the best medicine” and a “day without laughter is a day wasted”, but I didn’t realise that there were laughter clubs springing up all over the place.

The BBC NEWS reported on a course on relaxation through the use of laughter in London and here the famous John Cleese goes to Mombai to visit a laughter club.  You’ll hear the therapists advice in the video: “Fake it, fake it, until you make it”.  So now we know!

According to www.telegraph.co.uk, some of the weirdest days out in Britain include:

The Oxford Bus Museum

Newgrange in Ireland

Teapot Island in Kent

The International Climbing Arena in Edinburgh

The Jorvik Viking Centre in York

This might not be everybody’s type of music, but I love it.  Use the Blues Maker and make your own piece of music.

The Oatmeal gives you some great help on how to use a semicolon.