Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Prompted by a Boing Boing post, I spent a few minutes (okay, nearly 20 minutes) reading a thread on Reddit of "culturally untranslateable phrases". My favourite so far: "Jou mammie naai vir bakstene om jou sissie se hoerhuis te bou," translated beautifully as "your mother engages in prostitution in order to raise funds for the building materials necessary to construct a brothel from which your sister will operate."

I'm sure you'll have seen this elsewhere, but Mapcrunch's webpage let's you teleport around the world. It's fascinating.

From Boing Boing a brilliant and thought-provoking video of Hans Rosling talking about world health, wealth and the power of visualising statistics.