5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

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    • 5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Hans Roslings' amazing data view of health across the globe and through time are made even more awesome through holographic visualizations http://bit.ly/g7STIi

    2. Ooooh 128 vintage calculators http://bit.ly/g7STIi

    3. Some lost scenes from the original Star Wars http://bit.ly/eEow69

    4. Great immense paper sculpture you can barely see http://bit.ly/fikEC5

    5. Bond cars through the years http://bit.ly/ggqOjG

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget) Season 2 Episode 5

    1. I am Sparticus. I am McLovin'. I am John McLean. I am Morpheus. 250 Movie introductions. Simple. Awesome. http://bit.ly/c4wWar

    2. A photographer/grandson decided to cheer up his sad 91-year-old grandmother this way http://bit.ly/9ICTFH

    3. Although Florence Nightingale is most known for her compassion, her longest lasting contribution was her innovation in the realm of data visualization: the pie chart (she needed to convince her unswayable military commanders of the REAL cause of death for a majority of the casualties of the Crimean War) http://bbc.in/fNtXY5

    4. I think I want a Play Button (wearable mp3 player) http://bit.ly/bFnUIo

    5. The cognitive cost of becoming an expert http://bit.ly/g3jbL2

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. The latest round of leaked government communications on Wikileaks leads to a new set of charts, maps and graphs http://bit.ly/hFTvI3

    2. A collection of unique gaming dice http://bit.ly/f3UPHs

    3. Canon has a prototype 4k camera that gives the RED camera a run http://bit.ly/eaFQVK

    4. A letter from Hemingway about Ezra Pound "He is obviously crazy. I think you might prove he was crazy as far back as the latter Cantos. " http://bit.ly/fIMTOG

    5. An interactive 360-degree video you can film and then control while watching http://bit.ly/gPQZpK

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Ceramic speakers, circuit board stylings and 1 millimeter thick http://bit.ly/e9tE41

    2. If you have recently pulled up alongside someone at a stoplight who is getting down completely to some music you can't hear, it is probably Girl Talk's new album. And here is a way to experience it sample-by-sample http://bit.ly/hbhM2F

    3. Although Florence Nightingale is most known for her compassion, her longest lasting contribution was her innovation in the realm of data visualization: the pie chart (she needed to convince her unswayable military commanders of the REAL cause of death for a majority of the casualties of the Crimean War)  http://bbc.in/fNtXY5

    4. Because I have recently watched Toy Stories 1 through 3 many many many times, I find this off-color depiction of Woody in his downtime to be particular funny http://bit.ly/icqbq6

    5. A massive and amazing kinetic sculpture involving lots and lots of matchbox cars http://bit.ly/fKIKbB

     

    If you are near Sarasota, join us today (Saturday, November 27) at 4 p.m. (-ish) at O'learys as we are filming episode 5. Come out and say hi. We would love to see you.

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Every once in a while I come across some surreal photography that sticks with me a bit. Here's some http://bit.ly/hPVd4t

    2. Darth Vader! Yeah, that's the way to sell a smartphone http://bit.ly/gP4aMo

    3. An interesting thought experiment: if the map were rearranged so that people from the most populous country were moved to the largest geographically, etc. http://bit.ly/e0I1E4

    4. Aviary has been providing powerful free online photo editing tools for years, but now they've released a non-Flash version that works on your iPad (and laptop users who prefer the much more battery-protective HTML5) http://bit.ly/dEfMAU

    5. A dissertation from a PhD student from the University of Twente (in the Netherlands) on "Internet Skills" http://bit.ly/eThPmo

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  More animated GIF awesomeness, this time with a Bill Murray flavor http://bit.ly/gxeyBn

    2. The Magazine Designer's Guide to magazines is all the snark you might expect http://bit.ly/ermvFx

    3. The cognitive cost of becoming an expert http://bit.ly/g3jbL2

    4. These collections of so very WRONG vintage ads, sickening to our modern eye, do in fact make me feel a little smug. We've come a long way, baby! (damn it! did i just quote a sexist cigarette ad?) http://bit.ly/ewBklJ

    5. On the other hand, the imagination and talent that created Metropolis in 1927, humbles me and our modern reliance on FX http://bit.ly/fgA7E2

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget) Weekly Episode 4 - Season 2

     

    1. A brilliant little idea and the best use of animated gifs EVER http://bit.ly/bLvhH7


    2. A NYU professor of photography is going to embed a camera in the back of his head for a year, and program it to take pictures once a minute. A project he calls Third Eyehttp://on.wsj.com/bqfF9I

    3. I didn't know you could do those things on a bike. Any one know what this kinda biking is called? Something other than awesome?http://bit.ly/9HjrAx

    4. Autocorrect awesomeness. So many of them include "stupid iphone!" http://bit.ly/crgWE5

    5. A Life on Facebook is a clever idea, similar to History as Told on Facebook http://bit.ly/aKb7TC

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  108 trash bags used to great effect http://bit.ly/cAacO1

    2. (Spike Jonze + Arcade Fire) Subtly Recognizable Dystopiaawesome = Suburbs http://bit.ly/aSGbCw

    3. Frog Design brings us a gorgeous glowing global tweet visualizer http://bit.ly/d3WYdY

    4. No news here, but wealthier people are less empathetic, generous and polite http://bit.ly/9Nb9Tw

    5. A very similar taxi ride can cost you very different amounts around the world http://bit.ly/9T50HI

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  A photographer/grandson decided to cheer up his sad 91-year-old grandmother this way http://bit.ly/9ICTFH

    2. I am Sparticus. I am McLovin'. I am John McLean. I am Morpheus. 250 Movie introductions. Simple. Awesome. http://bit.ly/c4wWar

    3. Newsweek has created an interactive infographic called the Career Tree http://bit.ly/9goLsg

    4. Bring Your Own Beamer. A room full of people, each with her own projector. Sounds like a party I think we should make happen http://bit.ly/9JN2YC

    5. I think I want a Play Button (wearable mp3 player) http://bit.ly/bFnUIo

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Photos of Dalí and his kind http://bit.ly/bHEuDH

    2. A NYU professor of photography is going to embed a camera in the back of his head for a year, and program it to take pictures once a minute. A project he calls Third Eye http://on.wsj.com/bqfF9I

    3. Popular Science has its Best of What's New out http://bit.ly/bh97Lg

    4. Read about Kalmykia, the only officially Buddhist country in Europe http://bit.ly/9laOCO

    5. Chinese doctors save a little girl's severed hand by grafting it to her leg for three months http://gizmo.do/bn8ypb

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Mapping the locations and correspondence of Enlightenment thinkers reveals a centuries old social network http://bit.ly/bpLk03

    2. Two fairly new entrants into the social shopping space are both pretty fantastic: svpply http://bit.ly/9CISPc and google's boutiques http://bit.ly/a0ggZg

    3. Edward Tufte (the master information design I am wont to quote) is auctioning off rare books of the visualization persuasion, for more than $2 million http://bit.ly/c4H8cJ

    4. Edward Gorey like illustrations on post-its http://bit.ly/cdohE3

    5. Lots of great aerial photographs of different civilizations are the world http://bit.ly/aLOuQw

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. 2010-11-17_1024I didn't know you could do those things on a bike. Any one know what this kinda biking is called? Something other than awesome? http://bit.ly/9HjrAx

    2. Vanity Fair presents a series of "My Desk" photo shoots of famously successful entertainment folks http://bit.ly/96qdp9

    3. Photos of Mecca from 1885 http://bit.ly/a50zjY

    4. I mentioned this Dutch guy who runs from his camera a couple of videos ago. Here's his blog http://bit.ly/d8Jye2

    5. If Acoustic Archaeology were offered in the course catalogue when I was at school, I definitely would have taken it http://bit.ly/a5TL7U

    5 things I learn today (and don't want to forget) - episode 3 - Season 2 Travel Edition

    1. This artist goes on a helicopter ride over a city, then lands and draws the whole thing from memory http://bit.ly/d08YFL

    2. Looking through facebook statuses and relationship statuses in aggregate gives us: key breakup times http://bit.ly/c3mTo6

    3. WTF!? A series of WTF moments http://bit.ly/ccGrjF

    4. Like the famous Mole People of the Lower Eastside in Manhattan, there are people living in the storm tunnels under Las Vegas http://bit.ly/98oZPJ

    5. There are a great many ways to make good design decisions when planning or designing a website, and most of them have to do with understanding the user. The UI Conference 15 (#UI15) and its great presenters showed that in spades http://bit.ly/dadYFk

     

    Very special thanks to Nick Bowman, Eric Birnbaum, Michael Grossman (@uxarts), Josh DiMauro (@paperbits), David Gray (@davegray), Tamara Adlin (@tamaraadlin), Leah Buley (@ugleah) and Vanessa Fox (@vanessafox ).

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Autocorrect awesomeness. So many of them include "stupid iphone!" http://bit.ly/crgWE5

    2. Political boundaries go this way and that, and back again: 10 centuries in 5 min http://bit.ly/cZz6LD

    3. Prototypes of London's new double-decker buses http://aol.it/cMkZDo

    4. Oh Jonathan Safran Foer, you are so adorably creative http://bit.ly/d0ku7W

    5. And amazing collection of photos of Edwardian sportswomen http://bit.ly/a9o8WJ

     

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