Interesting Links for 21-09-2014

• From bauxite and corn starch to cans in the fridge - how Coca Cola is made
  (tags: cocacola metal manufacturing drink )
• Patrick Stewart Recites a Poem In His Native Huddersfield (Yorkshire) Dialect
  (tags: PatrickStewart video accents UK )
• A fantastic piece on the death of design in magazine covers and movie posters
  (tags: design art movies magazines )
• We now know the physical/chemical process by which stress makes people less sociable or able to think clearly.
  (tags: stress social thinking psychology )
• The real benefit of Agile (It's cheaper to do badly than waterfall)
  (tags: agile development software )
• Since Thursday 4000 people have joined the SNP and 2000 have joined the Greens
  (tags: Scotland politics )

What did the Scottish Independence vote really look like?

My friend marr0g pulled together the figures from the vote to see how differently most areas actually voted (answer: mostly, not very):

and then to show how that looks when areas are sized by population:

and then, in order to keep people who find it hard to tell shades of purple apart happy, redid them both with 50/50 as white:

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I've pulled the images together into a gallery here on imgur if you'd like to see the full-size images. Or you could just follow her on Twitter.

The Rite of Spring is hypnotising

I've got this running in a window while I read other things, and every so often I look over and go "ooooh" at it. Gets across the complexity of the music fantastically well.

"Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (complete), animated graphical score" (Watch on YouTube)

via firecat/firecat

Circle of Abstract Ritual - Stop-motion meets timelapse. Gorgeously.

I can't remember who I found this through, but it kept me completely entranced for twelve minutes.