Something a little bit different -  a piece of def jam poetry by Daniel Beaty which sent a shiver down my spine. It’s called Knock Knock and is incredibly powerful.

Incredible couple of graphs from a Fast Company blog entry about the statistics behind RTs. I knew that putting things out at different times of day impacted their popularity but the almost perfect wave form of the retweets against time graph is brilliant. Read the rest of the article here http://bit.ly/79JzoM for more insights about when to tweet and expect a reaction.

This was the prize on the Show-and-Stay quiz today. I have to say this is one of the best pieces of audience participation I have seen in a long time. I really think it deserves to be shared amongst music lovers and educators. Love it.

How much of the American TV you watch is real? Not a lot going on this video.

Straight from the pages of Lifehacker straight to the pages of my Tumblr, how to coil a 100ft cable into a series of loops which make it both practical and pretty to look at. I think this is getting close to the geekiest thing I’ve posted on here yet. Maybe from my previous entry about the mechanics of the folding bike you knew that I like things along these sorts of lines…

The Amazing Tom and Ed Brothers bring you the real story of the bible. As they say in their own caption on the site, if you are offended by this (and really you shouldn’t be as its SATIRE) then remember that all of the characters mentioned are fictional and meant to bear no resemblance to real people.

Not really sure why I had this song in my head the other day but I did. After a bit of googling to find where the phrase I was humming over and over came from I eventually found it on YouTube. Having found what Four Non Blondes looked like (nineties-tastic) I thought it was well worth posting up here!

Watched this video three times. The movement of the front tyre is mesmerising. I would love one of these for my commute, not sure how much practice it would take to be able to fold it down in such a smooth motion though. Very much looking to when this moves out of concept and into production. I’ll invest!

Will the web 2.0 save your career? The guys at Current cut LinkedIn down to size. An interesting follow up to their viral Twitter hit.

So Revision 3 launched a new show a few weeks ago called Film Riot. The basic premise of the show being that it will demonstrate film special effects in a senario and then break it down and show you how to do it. The actual meat and veg of what you have to do in Final Cut is sped through so it doesn’t get boring and focused more on teaching you about how film makers, particularly the low budget indie ones, think about creating effects.

They blow people’s heads off, they show you how to add muzzle flash when someone fires a gun but the thing which really sets this podcast apart is that their production values are increadibly high. The writing is genuinely funny and the senarios that they run to showcase their effects are awesome. Check out their podcast and even if you are not a film maker you will find yourself looking at your favourite films in a very different light.

The lastest episode was a mock film trailer to showcase the effects taught in the first few episodes. Mashing together just about every epic horror film trailer you have ever watched these guys take the piss wonderfully with their trailer for PMS The Horror Movie. Not only is the trailer mental they have also set up a Myspace page for it! Check out the rest of the mock universe these guys have set up at http://myspace.com/pmsthehorrormovie