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From the amazing site “Information Is Beautiful” comes this visualisation of how billions of dollars are spent around the world, in relative terms.
You can instantly see, for example, that at first glance the cost of the Iraq War seems to dwarf all others, until you look further down and see the “worst case” total cost [...]

Xenocide is the fourth novel in the Ender series, and the penultimate of the series overall – even though it is succeeded by the “Shadow” series. I know this review is going to be messy. It’s hard to summarise the ideas and thoughts in this series here, but I’ll try.
If you’ve read Speaker For The [...]

Here’s a new “Literal Video” from Dustfilms.com. If you haven’t seen the others, they’re at this post.
This time it’s the Red Hot Chilli Peppers with Under The Bridge – as it should be

Do you, like most, hold a stereotypical view of America? Do you think Texas is full of “rednecks”, the cuisine is mainly McDonalds, that “trailer parks” are full of the down-and-out?
Jon Kelly – a BBC reporter taking a special election bus across America – has been stopping in some unusual places to show the real [...]

A lot of web-savvy people will have already seen this, but if not watch this youtube clip below, and follow what the presenter says. It’s not too long and let’s just say it was very interesting!

Seriously… they will!
Lot’s of fun – so don’t be alarmed when your browser window goes haywire. Just close it to get back to normal Nothing bad will happen, honest.
http://users.telenet.be/kixx/
This is a unique flash movie, experiment, almost an internet magic trick. I laughed, anyway.
P.S. Doesn’t work in Chrome. Google won’t let browser-hacks like this [...]

This site has a list of youtube videos of classic celebrity-endorsed computer ads.
Recommended:
The Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant Microsoft UK Training Videos
Jennifer Aniston / Matthew Perry Windows 95 Training Video
John Cleese in a range of 80’s Compaq Ads
and many more, including William Shatner promoting the Vic 20, some incredibly cheesy Intellivison ads, and even Tom [...]