johnny cash - hurt

just a great song & video


found via justin taylor

how the internet is revolutionising education

Via: OnlineEducation.net

plot device

plot device from red giant on vimeo.

myers #briggs & prayer & church welcoming types

this significant truths blog post lists the prayer for each personality type (according to myers briggs)


this online test helps you id your personality type


and this bukisa post suggests the prayer type best suited to your personality

and this is a great post on myers briggs and church welcoming types from the beaker folk

and another on bible personalties from changing worship

and another on why the myers briggs is meaningless

mr. deity and the ghost

well it's certainly a different explanation of the trinity

found via meridith gould

mission shaped cathedrals

mission shaped cathedrals project introduction movie from episcopal village on vimeo.


found via the shinyheadedprophet blog

the swing

found via mashable

taizé - jesus christ, bread of life

found via blue eyed ennis

say something nice (c)

found via mashable

social media volume counter

found via digital fingerprint

graduation speech - conan o'brian

the serious stuff starts around 16:21  - you can find the full text here - and in summary what he is saying is:


 - there are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

 - whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come, the beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

 - whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change, and that’s okay.

found via simplicity 

every flight on earth in 72 seconds (c)

from 2008

change when public servants get paid to save the nhs money

this freakonomics article reports on some 2010 research which apparently shows a link between mortality rates and when people get paid (the 30 years worth of data used is from the usa)






one explanation offered for the link is that when we get paid we go out shopping (which increases the risk of all kinds of things like car accidents or heart attacks) 


in summary it’s not the receipt of income  - it’s the activity generated by the receipt  - that’s the killer


so here's an idea


if the government paid different groups of it's employees at different times of the month


then presumably that would smooth the accident/health effects described above


and so spread the load of such on the nhs across the month more evenly


photo by leo reynolds

social media thoughts

and all sorts of other related bits and bobs can be found at this soseriouslysocial.com site by Dr Mariann Hardey from Durham University

research - from Sept 2011 the latest extracts from hers articles, books, journal papers and other research

inspiration - a mix of creative thoughts, academic works and commercial collaborations

story - hers

knowledge - some links to free stuff

consulting - her soft sell

portfolio - mostly presentations

wisdom (a blog) - short headlines/teasers with links to more

journalism - links to some of hers



found via pmphillips

taizé - the kingdom of god

found via blue eyed ennis

have transnational corporations being acting anti-competitively as a bloc?

so how many of these corporations do you recognise?


i ask because its possible that due to their close ownership ties they have been operating as a bloc


and we wouldn't know it because till now nobody knew the extent of their cross ownership


i came across this info on g+ in a post by john baez on a paper called "the network of global control" that alexander kruel had pointed out to him. 


you can get the paper here from cornell university library.


the paper (submitted 28/7/11) is by stefania vitali, james b. glattfelder and stefano battiston and it starts to perform the task of uncovering for the 1st time the worldwide structure of corporate control of transnational corporations.

my mega summary of some of the astonishing things it appears to start to prove (previously some of us suspected but .....) follows:

1)  nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of transnational corporations in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 transnational corporations in the core; 

2) about 3/4 of the ownership of firms in the core remains in the hands of firms

of the core itself - cumulatively they hold the majority share of each other and so the core has almost full control over itself;

3) almost 3/4 of the core is made up of financial intermediaries;

4) recent works and experience show that when a financial network is very densely connected it is prone to systemic risk;

5) this connection by ownership could facilitate the formation of blocs hampering market competition;

6) at a national level even small cross-shareholding patterns can affect market competition - but at a global level this has never been documented - and antitrust institutions monitor at a national - not global level

john davies sermons

he's put them all here 


a very useful resource

tottenham riots - fires over north london

the history of the english language in 15ish minutes (g+, c)

by the open university - found via the digital nun

the story of everything

deadline post-it stop motion

found via revising reform

statistics

this you gov/sunday times survey 

(found via http://www.dyfedwynroberts.org.uk/)

was done in june 2011  with 2451 adult respondents

and found that (page 6);

12% said they belonged to a gym - and the same % said they belonged to a trade union;

10% said they belonged to the national trust;

6% of adult Britons claim to belong to a ‘church group or bible study’;

5% said they belonged to a football club;

3% said they belonged to a book club or reading group;

2% said they belonged to a golf club;

1% said they belonged to the conservative party.

o lord, hear my prayer - taizé

found via blue eyed ennis

a 2009 microsoft vision for 2019

looks like glass is the manufacturing industry to invest in ........

world map of social networks june 09 to june 11

found here via pmphillips

end of an empire?

communication

this “how to win the war in al anbar by cpt. trav” presentation 


uses stick figures and was


apparently 


used to convey information to those at the top in the us of a military that they seemed to be ignoring

you are not alone

powerful stuff - worth a watch


found via meme machine

eat, learn, move (g+)

apparently 3 blokes covered 38k miles and 11 countries over 44 days


to create these fantastic 3 videos


eat from rick mereki on vimeo.


learn from rick mereki on vimeo.


move from rick mereki on vimeo.

found via @redditfeed where the link was submitted by rebound

words newspaper headlines use

deserted, 

gloom, 

misery, 

rampage, 

chaos, 

revealed, 

plight, 

fears, 

horror, 

shock, 

exposed, 

panic, 

alert, 

crisis, 

scandal,

torment, 

sparks, 

secret, 

deepens, 

tragedy, 

stampeded, 

anarchy, 

shame, 

blitz, 

rebellion

i wonder how their use affects our world view?

that mitchell and webb look - send us your reckons

found via pm phillips

population globe (g+)

this stuff at chrome experiments is kind of cool

where the 12 apostles died

apparently


found via justin taylor 


who hat tips joe carter for it