Brendan Mitchell blog

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • A Walk on the Wild Side

    Seth Godin posted an interesting graphic yesterday that caught my eye, a perfect example of data mining (sorry couldn’t resist that one) Original Source and Seth’s Post It’s not that surprising when you think about it, but let’s look at another example, Death Rate by Mode of Transport in the UK… (NB: Flying doesn’t appear, as…

  • 60 Things in 60 Secs

    A clever advert, it concentrates on the benefits of using the product rather than the product itself, plus it’s witty, to the point and without doubt, it will be a hit with the wives, girlfriends, or women in general! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCthp6Fr0MI] Thanks to Unionversity for posting this you should follow me on twitter here

  • How To Write A Manifesto

    Discovered on Swissmiss you should follow me on twitter here

  • 100,000,000 in… and counting

    You know me, a sucker for an infographic! So I thought I’d post this Linkedin infographic marking them hitting 100 million users (NB: Facebook will likely announced they’ve hit 1bn very soon!) you can find me on linkedin here you should follow me on twitter here

  • Radiation Dose Chart

    Just saw this infographic on the XKCD blog about radiation dosage, it’s fascinating… plus I never knew that about Banana phones, think I’ll stick with my iPhone for now! More info here at XKCD you should follow me on twitter here

  • 9 Out of 10 Cats With Opposable Thumbs Prefer Facebook!

    I caught this advert at the weekend, I thought it was wonderful… although it didn’t make me want to rush out to buy some Cravendale milk! Also worth noting is Cravendale have created an online campaign around this advert, encouraging viewers to follow them on Twitter or like their Facebook page, buts what’s telling is…

  • Run Forrest RUN!

    No matter what, you can always find something on the internet that will make you smile… although note that cameraman doesn’t run? you should follow me on twitter here

  • Joliena Jol-enX (WTF!)

    WTF is this all about… I thought Usavich was strange, but this is beyond words! Joliena Jol-enX [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaffP5deRdI] Usavich [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZDHqpROKgE] Kanaban Studios you should follow me on twitter here

  • iPad 64

    A good indicator that your advertising campaign is a success, is when parodies start appearing! (Thanks Carlo) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKaxGrS_K7k] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jMrLqdv4I] you should follow me on twitter here

  • The World’s Aging Population

    You may have worked out by now that I’m a statistics and infographics junkie… so here is a brilliantly executed  interactive infographic that highlights the predicted age by percentage of various nations… as you will see, Japan, South Korea and Italy will have a very different looking population by 2050, compared to today by Fathom…

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