Best NYT Front Page EVER!
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 1:21 pm by Steve

IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today’s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).

A Purple America
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm by dr.hoo

purple america

Mark Newman at the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan generated this awesome collection of election maps. My favorite is above.

H/T Andrew Sullivan

UPDATE:
As Steve and Josh commented, the red/blue colors can give a biased visual perspective. Here’s the same map with the hue rotated 120 degrees.

Hue Rotated 120 Degrees

Liquid Billboard
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am by dr.hoo

Check out this cool Japanese water fountain:

Awesome and Personal InfoViz!
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm by Steve

Life Map

This came up as one of the sidebar images on the blog’s home page (it searches Flickr for photos tagged with ‘information’). He calls it a “Life Map,” and it shows his interests, academic and non-academic, apportioned through his life.

The OTHER McCain/Palin Ticket
Posted on September 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm by dr.hoo

Imagining the Tenth Dimension
Posted on August 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm by dr.hoo



Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A new way of thinking about time and space, a book by Rob Bryanton. www.tenthdimension.com

Moogalicious
Posted on August 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm by josh-wah

Way more kitschy moog LPs than you ever knew existed….

yeah, I know, this one is an ARP...

ok, I know, this one is actually an ARP…

36 15 Moog

OMG this is totally fun.
Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm by Mutt

My friend Jay Schuster just pointed me to a really fun graphical description language, which can produce beautiful images with remarkably small amounts of code.

I encourage you to check out the galleries at contextfreeart.org and try it yourself if you’re inclined.

To give you a taste of what it’s like, this snippet of code:

startshape SeedOfLife
background { b -1 }

rule SeedOfLife {
DotCircle {}
6 * {rotate 60} DotCircle { y 1 }
}

rule DotCircle {
180 * {rotate 2} CIRCLE { y 1 s 0.025 hue 120 sat 1 brightness 1}
}

… produces this image:

The Seed of Life, as rendered by Context Free Art

Abandoned NASA Trailer
Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 3:03 am by dr.hoo

“Photographer Richard Harrington stumbled upon this abandoned NASA trailer, abandoned on a dusty lot somewhere between L.A. and Las Vegas, and as you would expect, it’s a retro space-tech dream inside.” - VIA Gizmodo

Fontastic
Posted on June 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm by Mutt

The NYTonline posts a review of Font design software and websites here.  One of the most interesting is fonstruct.com, which is a combination of an online font editing system and a social networking site that lets users share fonts they’ve designed.

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