Amazing mashup of Google Maps and Census 2000 data.
Google Maps the census: “
This Google Maps mashup from AnalyGIS and SRC adds census information from the 2000 census to the Google Maps interface we already know and love.
Just put in your address and you can quickly see the population, income, and housing statistics for your area [...]
Entries from March 2006
March 31, 2006
Google Maps mashed up with Census 2000 Data
March 30, 2006
Animated Flash map of Iraq war casualties
Animated Flash map of Iraq war casualties:
“Xeni Jardin:
This animated map of coalition military fatalities during the Iraq war unfolds at ten frames per second. Each frame represents one day of the war. One dot marks each casualty site.’A death begins as a white flash, then grows to a larger red dot, which turns black [...]
March 30, 2006
The Complete Western Canon
A link to a full listing of the Complete Western Canon. Books galore. Get reading!
Broken down by:
A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE
B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832
C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900
D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century
Taken from Harold Bloom's Book: The Western Canon. More lists of Great Books. All [...]
March 30, 2006
Yupster, Yindie, Grup? Middle-aged quest for cool
Interesting, albeit long, read.
This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old. It’s not about a fad but about a phenomenon that looks to be permanent. It’s about the hedge-fund guy in Park Slope [...]
March 28, 2006
University Channel – Access to a World of Ideas
Adding to the information overload: University Channel
The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions.
Though I've seen Stanford and Harvard offering podcasts, lectures, etc… online, [...]
March 27, 2006
Youtube music video roundup
Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola – Mediterranean Sunset
Wes Montgomery – Impressions (1965)
March 27, 2006
Amen Break – One of the world’s most sampled drum loops
An audio installation (with video): http://nkhstudio.com/pages/popup_amen.html
Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a
critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the
history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track
Amen Brother by 60's soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from [...]
March 27, 2006
Gilles Tréhin, a savant and his imaginary city
Gilles Tréhin, a savant and his imaginary city: "David Pescovitz:
Gilles Tréhin, an autistic gentleman who lives in Cagnes sure Mer, France, has designed an incredibly detailed city that exists only inside his head. He first conceived of the city, called Urville, in 1984, and began to construct a scale model out of LEGOs. In 1986, [...]
March 27, 2006
15 Best Skylines in the World
Top Skylines: “Diserio’s Top 15 Skylines in the World v3.0. Via The Presurfer.”
(Via Coudal Partners Blended Feed.)
March 27, 2006
newsmap – google news visualization
newsmap – An oldie but a goodie.
An application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.
