Pictures & Videos

Wordle – word cloud art

April 11th, 2010%

Just tried this “cloud art” using Wordle–a self-proclamied “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.”

You can pipe in your website URL, or paste in any text. Then you have a bunch of cool control over design, layout, color, and more. Here’s one of the pictures it made for SalvoLavis.com:

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Visual Aid: Synonyms, homonyms, heretonyms, and more

April 9th, 2010%

Thanks, Wikipedia! This is really useful:

It’s Not Exactly Brain Surgery…

April 7th, 2010%

Thank you, BBC Two, for this bit:

This humor is clever, but it’s not exactly… oh, nevermind.

Visualization: What Does China Censor Online?

April 5th, 2010%

Click the pic above to see the full-resolution image.

Link: What Does China Censor Online? [Information Is Beautiful]

160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

April 3rd, 2010%

Some online video fun/movie nostalgia/political propaganda — 160 of the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes, all rolled into one 10-minute video:

Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick

March 28th, 2010%

Nathan Sawaya creates some amazing sculptures entirely from Legos.

Check out his “Art of the Brick” Gallery for more cool pictures.

(Thanks to Andrew Sullivan’s blog for turning me on to this.)

Four Ways of Looking at Twitter

February 25th, 2010%

Very cool stuff — experiments in data visualization as presented in the Harvard Business Review:

Curling: An Olympic Sweep

February 22nd, 2010%

A nice explanatory graphic on curling from the LA Times (click to enlarge):

Link: Curling: An Olympic Sweep [LA Times]

The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Great Buns & Thighs

February 18th, 2010%

Oh, the surprises one finds when waiting in line at CVS:

Yeah. Get your copy here.

Facebook ads gone strange

December 26th, 2009%

Seems that a lot of the sidebar ads I’m seeing on Facebook lately are strange. See the most recent here. What’s up, Facebook?

Fishing Bloopers

December 25th, 2009%

This one from the hilarious department: bloopers from a country fishing show. No further introduction needed. Enjoy!

Live football looking like a broken video game

December 5th, 2009%

This video from the Florida v Florida State game last weekend is unbelievable. Or rather, un-understandable? Whatever, it’s funny:

Looks like a brain lapse? A seizure? Or just a lot of practice?

Read more from Yahoo! Rivals. Or a different take from Sporting News.

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