Building a Lego Wii

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Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram

Fascinating infographic of BBC spending. It puts the £2million spent on Clarkson and £6million spent on Ross into perspective – 50% more spent on Ross than on the Proms!

via guardian.co.uk

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How Social Engagement is Changing

Very interesting infographic on the change in social networking over the last couple of years. But I’m puzzled by the statistic under the the yearly growth circles – “80% of the social community’s engagement with content now happens somewhere other than the site on which content originated.” It appears to relate to the three following [...]

A statue in Oviedo

In Woody Allen’s film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Juan Antonia (Javier Bardem) invites Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) to accompany him to Oviedo to view a particular sculpture which he finds inspiring. Cristina jumps at the opportunity, but Vicky goes reluctantly. The statue we later see is of a crucifix, which allows Woody Allen [...]

Humility in the wrong place

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place.  Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition.  Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be.  A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth. . . .

We are on the road [...]

Doing things well

I was struck by this quote of Martin Luther King’s when I came across it years ago. I was reminded of it today via Seth Godin’s blog.

Craftsmanship

Find a calling and then deliver.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare [...]

Kitty the Mystical Cat

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Internet 2009 in numbers

Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me:

Email

90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year [...]

UK cinema admissions reach highest level for seven years | News | Screen

19 January, 2010 | By Sarah Cooper

UK cinema admissions are at their highest level since 2002, according to figures released by the UK Film Council today (January 19).

Admissions in 2009 rose to 173.5m from 164.2m for the previous year and just behind the 2002 record of 175.9m. The increase was driven by the success of [...]

If you printed Twitter – brilliant infographic

Infographic by Cartridge Save for printer cartridges

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