Visually unimpared

On the never ending quest to find new ways of expressing myself visually I stumbled upon Visual-Literacy.org that has (amoungst othert things) a very nice mock up of a billion and one different ways of representing information, processes, …. Well okay not a billion and one but ALOT. They describe it as a ‘Periodic Table [...]

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Global Conscious

I heard a snippet of this on CBC radio and found it intriging. My plan (in my youth – way back when plans all seemed so black and white) was to be “a scientist”. The plan was to get a Bachelor of Science in Canada and then travel to Cornell to study under Carl Sagan. [...]

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UI’s that rok.

So I stumbled upon this video on youtube pertaining to Digg activity shortly after the iphone announcement at Macworld. Basically they graphically represent the frequency with which topics are being ‘dugg’. You can see this particular technology in live action at diggs lab site
A very interesting approach to graphically presenting this sort of information. [...]

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My new lust.

I’ll be brief here but there is a new object of my desires on the way and I’m sure that I’m not unique in this:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/

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Gay Sheep Rights ?!

Okay, now that’s GOTTA get your attention
According to this story from The Register scientists have had a degree of success with ‘curing’ male homosexual sheep.
They’ve got trouble brewing because they’ve raised the ire of former Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova !
I mean really – who would fund this kind of research in the first [...]

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Santa done brought us an XBox

So inspite of my anti MS stance these last 20 years or so, Santa was kind enough to bring the family a pretty white XBOX for christmas. I guess he’s trying to enlighten me or something …
Anyways – it’s very nice and shiny and has a very very slick interface. I hooked it up to [...]

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