origami crane

Stop putting off reading of CLASSIC LITERATURE: you can do it without spending any time at all by using one of these new incredible methods! Never fold a paper crane again without learning some classic poem!

Jul 27, 2020

Education, Literature

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The issue: It’s often hard to get motivated to read a famous work of literature, especially when there are so many other forms of entertainment competing for one’s attention. Proposal: Let’s create a situation so that a person can read a book as a “bonus” along with a primary activity that they were already doing. (Ideally,…
This blog got its first search engine referral, for “cutting a poster for carrying.”

Sep 29, 2015

Design

cutting a poster to fold it, origami crane

Background: When a person searches for something using an online search engine, their general expectation is to get a vaguely useful answer. However, I checked the blog stats recently, and someone apparently searched for “cutting a poster for carrying” and was directed to the “butterfly” poster design post (https://worstideas.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/poster-tips/). Fig 1: Some unfortunate person searched…