How to nap

The Boston Globe has published a very useful guide to napping. Read it here

Lisa Kereszi shoots Governer's Island

Cool Hunting shot photographer Lisa Kereszi at Governer's Island, New York.

Slow Road

Sarah from The Daily English Show puts a song by Steven Dunston to footage of the Road To Hokkaido

Social Media in Plain English

Common Craft do it again!

The Power of the Imaginative Mind

Ken Robinson speaks at the Apple Education Leadership Summit

Minneapolis Architecture

Cool Hunting report on the Minneapolis architecture scene

Helvetica - the documentary

A film about a typeface? Watch Neville Brody & Rick Poyner talk about Helvetica

I Will Derive

Think maths is boring? Check out this video by MindofMatthew which I found on Jenny Luca's blog Lucacept.   Read the lyrics here (click on "more info").

Welcome to the world of chemistry

Open Yale Courses

Yale University is putting entire courses online which can be studied for free. Check out this great initiative here.

London Secrets

Hitchcock Leytonstone London Underground Mosaics - The Skin Game, originally uploaded by Annie Mole.

If you're going to London soon check out this Guardian guide by top London bloggers and discover some "secret" places in the city.

How to REALLY learn English

Knightwise is a Belgian geek and media producer. He also speaks great English. In a video conversation on seesmic I asked if he could share English learning experiences. This video is his reply. Take note because Knightwise explains his secrets and serves as an ispiration to language learners everywhere.

Video conversations

Banannieannnie asks "What is the future of video conversation?"

testing Britannica

Podcasting in Plain English - subtitled version

Here is the English subtitled version of the excellent Podcasting in Plain English from Common Craft

Click here for a transcription

Podcasting in Plain English

Another excellent video from Common Craft

Camembert Wars!

The Guardian reports on the Camembert War taking place in France here

Leek fritters from Good Food

Evan Kleinman from KCRW's Good Food programme shows us how to make leek fritters.

Pink Politics

The Guardian reports on "The Pink Cabinet" here

The Great Village #1: About Ground Zero

The Great Village #1: About Ground Zero from Seesmic

Design and the Elastic Mind

Cool Hunting go behind the scenes at the MoMA exhibition

Farmers Market with White On Rice Couple

Join Todd and Diane from White On Rice Couple on a visit to a California Farmers Market.

Seesmic for English learners

Dave Shannon helps Ruby with her English at Seesmic

Nouns, verbs, pronouns, tenses, prepositions etc

Sarah from the Daily English Show deconstructs a simple sentence.

Typography explained

Typographics - another great video from Vancouver Film Shcool

The future of work

Read it here

Tales From the Big Trip - Fish Wharf, Washington D.C

Tales from the Big Trip | The Fish Wharf | Washington D.C. from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.

Tsunami Video

Tsunami Infographic from Shal on Vimeo.

What is Twitter?

Another fine video from commoncraft which explains all about the "micro-blogging" platform Twitter

Spanish election debate?

The Guardian reports on the TV debate here