How evil is Google?
I like this as much for its prettiness as its informational content. There’s no news in it, but it is the stuff of legitimate concern, and worth a look.
Information about Information
Been a bit busy, apologies for my tardiness. This enervated me back towards action…
via IiB
2010 arrives and brings with it the video jukebox…
Really pleased to see YouTube leveraging its huge data stores for a change, rather than just vomiting mindless idiocy all over the world with guiltless aplomb.
Beatles Infographic Bonanza
Michael Deal has been doing some amazing work cataloguing and displaying all the data miscellanea surrounding The Beatles back catalogue. Click the image above to take a closer look.
via IiB
The verdict returns on 2009
Pretty great and comprehensive guide to what geeky bloggers think happened in music last year… The pictures are oddly pleasing.
Rejuvenation Researcher
I always think that its a special kind of lovely thing, when someone you know or care about, produces something brilliant. Not brilliant because you know them, or brilliant because they tried really hard, but just brilliant. I find myself constantly surprised at how often this happens to me now, probably a function of gently aging, and the people I surround myself with getting the hang of things. In any case, i digress. Please glance above at the fine sculptural/spatially discomfiting/ingenious exegesis of my good friend Jonty Hurwitz.
Old French Guys Were Good At Graphs
I came across this while reading my new favourite book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte. His description of it I think miraculously manages not to be overstatement; “It may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn”.
Meet your Nerd Boyfriend
This is just awesome. Can’t say much more about it. Thanks to the Condron for highlighting…. Check out Nerdboyfriend here
Apparently Europe is disappearing…
Sometimes I enjoy stumbling across something truly evil on the internet, something with enough jingoism to shake me from my liberal slumber. Witness the charming Charles Murray, giving us a quick demographic study of Paris:
“I can’t vouch for the representativeness of the sample, but at about eight o’clock last night in the St. Denis area of Paris, it worked out to about 50-50, with the non-native French half consisting, in order of proportion, of African blacks, Middle-Eastern types, and East Asians. And on December 22, I don’t think a lot of them were tourists.”
See the whole sorry mess here.
Photo by Desmond Kavanagh
Things that make other things, and so on….
The more I dwell on this, the more potent it seems. My friend Daniel at Elegant Embellishments, explained this concept to me over a Dunkel Bier in Berlin last year, and I’m not sure that i fully grasped it then. But as I watched the presentation above, his words seemed oddly prescient. This may be the preserve of CAD wizards for the time being, but give the wide scale adoption of the precursors to this technologies, it seems less a function of if, and more of when.
Via Faris