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Newsletter 62 : 20 december 2011

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Greetings
Welcome to our Christmas newsletter. You’ve received it because either you requested it (extra thanks!) or Kay or Jeremy have met you on our travels.

We offer a change from other newsletters which do demand an awful lot of reading, and hope you will find it diverting.

We aim to publish every two weeks, but sometimes the flesh is weak even as the spirit is willing.

Quotation of the week

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, scientist and mathematician, born Christmas Day 1642

Opinion piece of the week

Someone recently asked on LinkedIn, “Do people buy what you do or why you do it?” Jeremy doesn’t think they buy either.

Christmas cracker jokes of the week

What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? Claustrophobia!

What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck? A Christmas quacker!

What is the best Christmas present in the world? A broken drum, you just can’t beat it!

Twelve myths of Christmas

Prepare to have your illusions shattered by this Daily Telegraph article.

Video of the week

In this brilliantly clear talk Dan Gilbert talk about choice, the value we place on things and our expectations. How do others value what we offer? (dur 23:50, plus Q&A session c9:00)

(Incidentally, if you have difficulty watching videos at work, let us have your personal email address and we’ll send the newsletter there. Absolute confidentiality assured. We don’t pass email addresses to anyone.)

More Christmas cracker jokes of the week

New government regulations say that Santa’s helpers must wear a seatbelt when they’re on the sleigh. It’s elfin safety gone mad.

What should you take if you have swine flu? Oinkment.

What about bird flu? Then you need tweetment.

What’s green and slippery? Green slippers.

Music video of the week

For, unto us a child is born from Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Having sung it myself, I can attest to it being rather harder than it sounds!—JRM