9th October 2022

Love this. Video highlights ‘Questionable Laws’ around the world to support legalisation of cannabis.

Scary. Visualisation of the Impact of the Mini-Budget. Just click and scroll. And keep going until you get to the end. This is excellent visual storytelling from Led by Donkeys. (5 min play)

I’m a big fan. ‘Why public philosophy matters to Aeon and to the world’. ‘I strongly believe that the value of public philosophy is not just to reflect back to us what we already believe, but to stimulate us to think for ourselves, and to open up new ways of perceiving the world.’ Martha C Nussbaum, The University of Chicago

A list of rules for online sanity. Don’t be mean.

RIP a titan of advertising  – Dan Wieden. Nice, short piece on how he made it OK to be different, how following a process leads to bland work, and how introverts like Dan managed difficult social events.

From the always interesting Nerdwriter. Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times.

From @here_forth. Hot Words. How brands are using language

Artists Share Designs in Solidarity with Women in Iran. 

Jack Nicholson’s Wonderful Oscar Acceptance Speech. When Jack won his Oscar for Chinatown he was away filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. So, they went live by satellite where Jack received his Oscar on set with the rest of the patients. And Nurse Ratched.
(90 second watch)

Angry Cats Unite against Technology in Tom Kuntz Film for Back Market.