From Information Aesthetics: Visual Budget is a cutting-edge data-visualization web site. It explains all the complicated ins and outs of the US Federal Budget using interactive charts and motion graphics. It is a tool that lets citizens like you and me understand this important issue, armed with the latest most comprehensive facts and figures. It […]
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Super cool technology that lets you know what you’re looking at from 30,000 feet: The idea is that, if you’re online and in the air (and the Mondo Window guys have been blowing my mind with the technical, infrastructural and business models that allow this to happen), you can access the various APIs that track
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This is brilliant art–visually arresting while intellectually stimulating. Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos into one. After conducting an online keyword search and sifting
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This video is brilliant. Its video and audio reinforce each other, its content engages, and it makes you smile. Plus it’s genius marketing for a book. By the time it’s over, I want to go out and buy “Where Good Ideas Come From.”
Where do good ideas come from? Read More
This is pretty genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4
Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever Read More
I just learned that Google is hosting a world-wide science fair this year. Thought about entering, but you have to be under 18 to submit. Looks cool though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7oJfK4E7RY And makes me wonder…how many things can Google do?! >> Link: Google Global Science Fair 2011
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Truth is stranger than fiction, and this is proof: a Meg Whitman staffer retweeted an endorsement link. Only Twitter’s 140 character limit cut off the last character of the URL, leading readers not to a message from a sheriff–but to a Japanese man in pink tutu and lingerie playing the bass. “Huh?” you ask. Me
Cross-Dressing Japanese YouTube Music: Only in a California Governor’s Race Read More
It’s always fun when I spot a “SALVO” in the news! This one from the home page of ESPN:
SALVO spotting: The ESPN Homepage Read More
For all the traffic disruptions that President Obama’s visit to LA caused about two weeks ago, one of the cooler redeeming mementos of his visit I’ve come across is this shot of Air Force One landing at LAX (click on the picture for a huge high-resolution photograph): How cool would it have been to be
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Since my previous post on the history of Los Angeles rail, I’ve become even more fascinated with the history of the city. A bit of digging around online led me to this installation of James A. Fitzpatrick’s Traveltalks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHq5t7kH0Y I must admit, I was unfamiliar with the Traveltalks series but have become intrigued. What was
“Wonder City of the West” Read More