Jon Jolly

I love this creative act from Improv Everywhere. 207 people just freeze in the middle of Grand Central Station and everyone else is just confused!

Glubble is a great plugin for the Firefox web browser that gives totally FREE parental controls! There are essentially two criteria for using it:

you must use Firefox for web browsing
you must have children that use the internet

Aimed at primary aged children, Glubble changes the look of the browser to a simple kid-friendly interface when they [...]

There’s been a lot of activity recently in people mapping data from the Bible into visual representations.

Chris Harrison took the King James Version and produced some beautiful images based on the connections between the passages, before developing a social network representation and distribution of people and places like the image below.

The background is the entire [...]

I’ve had a lot of problems with Spam on this blog recently due to some changes with plug-ins. For some reason or other my hosting server can’t contact to Akismet so I’m trying out some other options which ultimately seem less than good! Anyone got some helpful suggestions?
What all this means for you, dear reader, [...]

I recently came across these amazing animated videos and have been stunned about both the quality and content of them.
Created by the BBC for Newsround (the kids news programme), the series of five tells the stories of real children living in poverty and difficult circumstances in the UK. Watching them brought back many memories [...]

Before Christmas I was contacted by the monthly publication Youth Work Now to write an opinion piece for the January issue of the magazine. I decided to base my article on a post I wrote back in November about findings of ADHD medication. Here is my piece that was published in the magazine today:
Drugs don’t [...]

Happy New Year!
This time last year I posted my favourite stuff of 2006, and there’s already been a whole slew of bloggers doing the same thing for 2007. So to jump on the bandwagon, here’s my top 3 of everything…
Books
Although I’ve read quite a few books this year, most of them have been around a [...]

I was reading Dave Johnson’s post about what rss feeds he subscribes to and it got me thinking it would be good to recommend a few of the blogs that I read too.
I subscribe to hundreds of different feeds from around the web ranging from youth ministry and human interest through to technology and research. [...]

You may have noticed a link appear at the top of the page to ’shop’. This because I’ve added an Amazon Associates store to this website. Basically it’s an opportunity for me to promote books, resources and materials that I’ve found helpful in my youth work. Over time, the products will grow but for now [...]

Reaching out without selling out

Although I’ve known of Pastor Mark Driscoll for some time due to his exposure in the emerging church scene, I’d never read anything of his directly until a friend gave me this to read during our recent holiday. I have to say, that although sceptical when I picked it up, I [...]