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American-centric warfare history told through food

Administrator — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:09:56 +0000

An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Found at information aesthetics.

Christmas Gift Idea: The Darfur Wall

JB — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:47:23 +0000

Wouldn’t $30 be better spent at The Darfur Wall than on some material gift?

Click a square above to approach the wall and witness its 400,000 numbers, one for each person killed in the Darfur genocide. Donate one dollar or more to turn a number from dark gray to brilliant white and honor one lost life. 100% of the proceeds go to four Darfur relief organizations.

The 4 organizations are Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, Save Darfur, Sudan Aid Fund / Eric Reeves. More information at the “about” page.

Found, sadly, only over at information aesthetics and not CNN or similar.

Amaznode Amazon product similarity visualization

JB — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:49:21 +0000

Amaznode is a visualization of products similar to your search query. I’ve found it much more useful than Amazon’s offerings for exploring products or topics similar to the one I am interested in. Give it a minute to populate itself once you enter a search term. I tried “forced induction” this morning and found a lot of interesting books among ones I already own (books I was completely unaware of). Found at information aesthetics.

Gorgeous old map

JB — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:04:23 +0000

Today, an old gorgeous map. Harold Fisk, 1944. Map of ancient courses of the Mississippi River.

Mapping the Iraqi Election

JB — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:17:13 +0000

Have I mentioned before that I love visualization? I’m pretty sure I have. Jonathan Corum has taken a stab at displaying the provisional Iraqi election results from February. Found mentioned in another article at Information Aesthetics.

GPS Diary

JB — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:58:33 +0000

What happens when you track your movement with a GPS device for a year? Have a look.

Found at information aesthetics.

Gallery of Computation

JB — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jared Tarbell uses various graphics-specific programming languages to generate beautiful renderings.

I write computer programs to create graphic images. With an algorithmic goal in mind, I manipulate the work by finely crafting the semantics of each program. Specific results are pursued, although occasionally surprising discoveries are made.

Spend some time at the Gallery of Computation

radicalcartography

JB — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

radicalcartography has some really cool maps to check out (found via Future Feeder).

Suicide rates for men and women across the US (map)
Mass Transit Systems in the US (PDF file)
US Territories and Military Installations (map)

And plenty more via the cumbersome menu at the top of the page. Dig around though, it’s worth it. Boston area residents will not want to miss the Boston maps.

Visualization: Time-lapse couriers in the UK

JB — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Future Feeder points to OpenStreetmap where a 3 day time-lapse video of courier data in London is available. I really like this sort of thing.

Visualization: Flight Density

JB — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It could just be me, but I think this image of flight density during one week between international airports is fantastic.