Video

Super sweet, darkly humorous and incredibly clever safety advert for Melbourne Metro. Now viral and apparently the most awarded advert EVER by agency McCann Melbourne check out the full execution (no pun intended).

Ricky Gervais Tells A Story About How He Learned To Write.

Mental Floss:48 Names for Things You Didn't Know Had Names

It’s Not Porn, it's… (NSFW but NOT Porn...)

Common Physics Misconceptions

Common Physics Misconceptions

Song Writing Process

 
I am no muso... but I am interested in the 'creative' process in all it's forms. I heard a fantastic interview this week on RRR's Aural Text with Author and Professor Pat Pattison who runs various song writing workshops here in Melbourne. This guy was pretty fascinating and definitely very accomplished in his knowledge; a real inspiration even for someone not trying to write songs.

If you are a muso and your'e struggling with that whole 'verse/cord/bridge' thingo, I recommend you check out his classes.

History of Dice

The History of Dice

Measuring the Universe

From 'Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos' an exhibition currently showing at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. I think I did learn something... And a nice little infomation to boot...

Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments of Teaching

From Brain Pickings, social critic Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments of Teaching

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Kickstarter: Reading with Pictures.

As a long time fan and creator of comics, I'm pretty excited by this kickstarter project: Reading with Pictures. To quote the would be creators:

The Graphic Textbook unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a gamechanging educational tool... The goal is to create an awesomeness-filled book of the highest artistic quality and literary merit that also meets all the criteria necessary to be accepted as classroom curriculum.

Aimed at grades 3-6, The Graphic Textbook features a dozen short stories (both fiction and non-fiction) that address topics in a variety of disciplines (Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Science) drawn from the list of Common Core Standards used in classrooms countrywide...