Data visualisation with perks

Loving this from Droga5, especially on a Friday. Slightly perversely hoping the DAX will go down - just for a minute or two.

Happy farmers

A few years back I spent a month camping at an organic farm in Wales. I got involved in the potato harvesting one day and getting down from the machine said to the farmer 'that was great, I'll have to tell my friends back in London.' It wasn't meant to sound as patronising as it did - I have a genuine, if naive, envy of farmers and their lifestyle, and an urge to share this envy with them. I guess the thoughts of early starts and a 365, poorly paid, lifestyle are just less salient when it's a novelty. Anyway, saw this and was pleased to see that the envy isn't wholly misplaced.

Stimulus and response

What a ridiculous example to show the difference between what the JWT advertising planner Stephen King would have called 'stimulus' and 'response'. Set to a classic...