CNN Hits The Wall for the Election - washingtonpost.com.
CNN has a big touch screen that they use to explain election stuff. It seems to be quite a rich app that allows the news peeps to project all sorts of “what-ifs” and automatically calculate the numbers on the fly. It’s nice to see a mainstream media outlet embracing the power of info-viz. It has garnered sufficient attention that SNL recently made fun of it.
Add comment October 28th, 2008
Callie Shell - Obama I found these shots of Obama to be a great insight into the Democratic candidate.
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Awesome compositing in this funny dance dance battle video.
Add comment October 23rd, 2008
The World’s First Wave Farm Goes Live in Portugal. Inhabitat has a post about the wave farm that uses the undulating motion of waves to shove hydraulic rams and generate power. It all seems very “We are now in the future” . (But maybe it’s just the fact they numbered the wave energy converters with big yellow numbers in a retro sci-fi chunky typeface.) Still, pretty awesome.
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Sticky tape generates X-rays from Nature. The act of peeling tape off the roll in a vacuum has been shows to emit xrays. Sufficient to take an xray of a researcher’s finger. Pretty bizarre phenomenon for a mundane item.
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The video for Animals, by Minilogue is really cute and playful, but at the same time somewhat eerie and odd.
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The Things He Carried by Jeffrey Goldberg describes just how flawed the TSA system is.
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I heart sketch is a really interesting environment for rapid sketching of 3d forms, using solely gestures both for drawing and for switching between modes. The video starts a bit wordy, but the modeling of a plane at the end is totally rad. This lowers the content to UI ratio to 100/0 and seems to work great for a specialized tool such as this.
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Add comment October 12th, 2008
If you’re a fan of William Gibson, and want to be as awesomely rad as Cayce Pollard, you can buy a special edition Buzz Rickson William Gibson bag.
Head Porter x Buzz Rickson x William Gibson Bags
Add comment October 10th, 2008
An interesting peel into the world of McCain supporters and they way they think. The most amazing quote is from the 2nd video is a young child saying “You need gloves to touch him” about Obama. Via Blogger Interrupted
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Time Warp is a new show on the Discovery Channel that I’m excited to check out. It’s a simple premise - lots of slow motion footage, presumably backed by scientific nerdiness. Go slo-mo!
Add comment October 9th, 2008
jason hackenwerth creates cool organic creature things from balloons.
jason hackenwerth’s balloon art.
Add comment October 7th, 2008
lol - I thought of doing a Palin vs Miss Carolina mashup - but found someone beat me too it. So good.
Add comment October 2nd, 2008
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