Interactive Visualisation
I love this a lot. It’s basically an interactive way of showing how CEO’s salaries have risen in relation to the average worker. Of course a graph or table could have done the job adequately. It just really brought the data to life for me…
Shift Happens – Watch This Video
The second thought provoking animation of the week… Watch it. It’s good. Makes me realise that understanding and appreciating bits and bytes is really important. And maybe one day I’ll be able to apply it to something that makes a…
Aaaah Shoreditch
Faris and Me on TV
Well not really TV, but it is sort of like TV on the Internet… This time I’ve actually managed to watch myself, so I’m making progress. I didn’t like it, but I did manage to stomach it. It’s from the Ideas Forum thing that Faris and I…
Amazing Polish Movie Posters
I love so many of these Polish Film Posters. I just like the way they’ve focussed on totally different things from the Hollywood versions. And the best thing is most of them are for sale, and they ship most places. Woo Hoo! Raiders of the…
Awesome Mechanics
If your favourite game as a kid was Mouse Trap, and you enjoyed the Honda Cog advert be prepared to waste 9.10 of your life smiling through this compilation of idents for Japanese TV show Pythagoraswitch. via: BoingBoing
Firefox eBay Edition
This could have been around for ages, but I just saw a banner for it today for the first time… It’s basically a version of Firefox for people who do a lot of eBaying – it’s basically just a load of extensions for Firefox that have been…
The Mullet Strategy
Business up front. Party out the back. MySpace, Youtube, Wikipedia they’re all employing ‘The Mullet Strategy’. Genius, read a bit more at: http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/The_Mullet_Strategy
Great Climate Change Video
Forget about An Inconvenient Truth, it’s all long and boring and stuff. Watch this instead… To my mind this deserves to have a lot more views than it’s had – so I’m going to make it my mission to get more people to see it. Please blog it…
Prison Dancing
The clip of prisoners doing the Thriller dance has been featured all over the place, in case you missed it, here it is: But I looked about and found these two which are less impressive from a choreography point of view. But somehow I found…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital
There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process. Things that a lot of us have done, and hopefully learned…
I think I will…
I saw this on a poster on the way to work. It set me up for the day. I thought: ‘yes, I’m going to use better skills to overcome challenges’. So far it’s working…