Apropos of Nothing

I thought this was gorgeous. Life looks so tidy when we’re speeded up.

Small Life in Cologne from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.

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Hype Cycle

You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was pub­lished just a week ago.

It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t

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Who Needs Advertising?

When you have this sort of team on your side.

Only about 20 months late on this.

(And yes – I wish I could shut off that frickin’ tweeting from the Cooking Mama post below. I’ll replace the widget with a link v.soon.

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Off Topic

But sorry it was too good, and at the very least, you must watch to from (thanks, Steve) 3:00’ish.

 

Via Jemima Kiss

Take the Test

I was totally taken by surprise by this one.

(A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some con­tro­versy over the ori­gin­ality of the idea. What a shame.)

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Corporal Punishment

I love the film Kes (1969). It was still modern when I went to sec­ondary school, nearly ten years later  — some local author­ities were still trying to get it banned when I was teaching in the 90s, and it’s still modern now. This scene, where the poor mes­senger boy from the second form gets beaten

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