Friday, 20 September 2013

20th September

Jon Snow from Channel Four News Sings Parklife
VIDEO
This is definitely my most favourite thing of the week

Persil Fail
SHORT ARTICLE
Ah the awkward moment your complaint about your key competitor's advert doesn't go as planned

UK Higher Education Map
MAP
A fasincating map that looks shows you the likelyhood you'll go to university based on where you are born. Great use of data, plus if you lived in a red spot and went to Uni, you can officially claim you escpaed the ghetto.

Tyrion Lannister on Sesame Street
VIDEO
Peter Dinklage is a legend.

Pleygo
CASE OF THE WANTS
It's Netflix for Lego. Genius. US only, but hopefully it'll arrive in the UK soon, because my inner child needs appeasing.

Scott Boswell and the Yips
LONG ARTICLE
As a proud, but also not very good cricketer, I loved this article in the Guardian about a serious case of the 'yips' (that's when all of a sudden you can't bowl for shit)

Using The Wilson Score Interval to Find the Nicest Food at Waitrose
LONG ARTICLE
Yeah, I was confused too, but look, maths can be fun and useful!

How to Install a Soda Fountain at Home
SHORT ARTICLE
Spoiler: It's really really really hard.

How Long is a Piece of String
DOCUMENTARY
This is a great documentary with Alan Davies that looks to answer the question 'how long is a piece of string?'. It gets very complicated (and interesting) very quickly...

And Finally
IMAGE
Dog Found

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