Journalism warning...

Tom Scott has made some fantastic little warning stickers about the integrity of what we read in papers - he's sticking them to articles in papers he find left on the London Underground. We can dig that...

Domestic wildlife

UTI doesn't read The Mail in printed or digital form so it missed this from June. But here it is anyway. A new craze is sweeping China where pet dogs are dyed to look like wild animals such as tigers or pandas. How cool.

The Big Caption

I'll just let the images (and words) do the talking but do check out The Big Caption - it's awesome... as it The Boston Big Picture blog where all the images are originally from - photojournalism at it's best...

Ape flu

These are a nice fun way to fight the swine flu pandemic...



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Six Weeks

Paul McCrudden is on to a good / funny thing...

Basically, I'll just quote a bit of his website before you head on over there for a closer look:

"Using the data collection website Daytum I recorded time (in minutes) and cost (in £ GBP) of all my interactions as a consumer. This included the odd five minutes for lunch every few days at my favourite salad stall on Goodge Street, to spending 45 minutes in Preston train station waiting for a connection. Yep, that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

The data's not perfect of course (eg. it's not automated based on GPS), and I rounded up/down as appropriate so that I didn't completely lose my sanity. But it provides a fascinating insight into how I live my life as a consumer, and which brands steal my attention.

What's more, with only a limited time of existence on this planet, it shows me whether I'm spending my time and money wisely as a consumer. And having invoiced the companies that claim my attention, I'll soon find out how much they respect the time I spend with their brand".

That's a pretty cool idea and way of looking at the world.

Here is a sample letter he's sent a cafe near his office...



Here is an invoice he sent them with that letter...



And he sent one to Pret - and got the following response. Fair play to Julian Medcalfe...



Delve further here (charge him for the time you spend with him - send invoices to paul@paulmccrudden.com)

Welcome Obama

As the world waits for Obama's inauguration speech, C4 News have put together these word clouds of previous inauguration speeches. Rather interesting. Here is the outgoing George W Bush's one and let's hope it's the last we hear of him...



Check them all here

Cockberg

It was this that screwed the Titanic



Read more here