François’s posterous

There's more of this revealing visualisation of Britain's information economy at the following address:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations/communication.shtml

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A terrific animated short by Louis Rigaud. You want to see this.

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Already! Geez, it's only the beginning of August! Of all the cartoons in Daryl Caggle's collection, this one is the most cynical:

 http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/School2009/3.asp

See http://cagle.com/news/School2009/main.asp
and http://cagle.com/news/SchoolMoms/main.asp

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The following diagram, from Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman's very interesting article Reinventing academic publishing online, nicely illustrates the interaction between core disciplines that is one of the main tenets of connectivism.

 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2609/2248

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I'm a big fan of the eat-local movement. However, it's the sheer potency of the following video that amazes me. Beautifully done.

 Source: http://bit.ly/3pW3sI

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This short inspirational video gets the point across that young people should persevere "no matter how many times they have failed in life."
 

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Darn it! Some folks in the food industry should be brought to trial for ruining our health solely to increase sales. Why can't Canada do something to cut the salt, as have the Brits.
 
Source: Globe and Mail - http://bit.ly/xQF8n

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Despite the weakness of the storyline, this art and design senior project is worth posting, if only for the great animation. The 'making of' video illustrates the painstaking work involved.

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Interesting data, nice clear chart. Congrats to the people at New Scientist.

 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.200-unknown-internet-3-how-big-is-the-net.html

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This is a nice inspirational video, as much for the message as for the animation and the music.

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