Gordon Ramsay’s best scrambled egg recipe

I know what I’m cooking this Saturday morning:

Jupiter slipping behind the sun

There’s a reason you should never look at the sun – that’s because NASA does it for you and when they do they see cool stuff like Jupiter and its moons travelling behind the sun – if you were to do it you’d see your retinas fried:

That mild green glow on the left side of the sun is billions of tons of plasma blasting off the surface into outerspace.

How to open a champagne bottle with a sword

The sort of thing they should teach at waiter school:

Everything is amazing, yet no-one is happy

Forgive me – a few emails have trickled through from people asking when we’re going to add some more fun stuff to our fun stuff page. I’ve been in Thailand for the past few weeks leading our tag-along tours so I haven’t really had time to put anything up here … except for this cool video. Comedian Louis CK was on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and points out just how amazing everything is and yet we’re still not happy. The video is funny and some of the language is NSFW. And to those who wanted more content on this blog, think about this – two days ago I was in another country, how amazing is that!

Play hit songs with just 4 chords

So what exactly does it take to write a hit song? Just 4 chords. So parents, save money on music lessons for your kids, just have them learn the four chords in this video and your kids could become your new retirement fund – best investment you’ll ever make:

The guy in the video is Benny Davis and he’s Australian – he and his two friends created a band/comedy act called Axis of Awesome and now tour the world.

BTW, the chords are I V VImin IV – so that could translate as D, A, Bm, G if you’re playing in the key of D – OR – E, B, C#m, A if you’re in the key of E.

World War Animation Video

World War – 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2008 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.

It seems like short films were becoming a dying art – but thanks to the interweb you can see some truly world-class films that otherwise would never reach your local theatre. Vincent Chai made this awesome animated video for his final project at the University Of Hertfordshire – amazing graphics, cute story and an ending that takes you by surprise.

man stacks bricks on his head

This guy should enter ‘India’s got talent’ – I’m sure he’s going to get more money on that show compared to what he gets doing the following day in day out:

The world is amazing

I don’t know why, I just love this video – makes you realise the world is amazing:

Spirit House ‘Business Sense’

From the Business Sense program on Channel 9 on Sunday mornings is this segment interviewing Helen Brierty – owner with her husband, Peter, of the Spirit House. Here’s a great insight into the beginnings and business lessons behind the Spirit House

A whole new way of seeing the world

Guaranteed: You’ve never seen data presented like this. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling’s hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.

Rosling developed breakthrough software which animates trends in incredible ways showing you that most of the third world is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did. This has UNBELIEVABLE impacts on the world as you and I might know it.