Monthly Archives: August 2008

Jason Tozer’s Photography for CR

By admin | Published: August 24, 2008

Amazing and beautiful, these images by Jason Tozer are other-worldly (and made with common bubble-soap).

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Go Play With Wordle

By admin | Published: August 24, 2008

This is a word-cloud of my blog as of the time of this writing. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The [...]

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Generative Book Covers

By admin | Published: August 24, 2008

PostSpectacular is a small London based design studio and consultancy actively exploring the growing possibilities at the intersection of various design disciplines and software development, often within a wider branding context. They have designed and developed a generative software solution to dynamically generate cover art for Faber & Faber’s book series, Faber Finds. Faber Finds [...]

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The Exurbs: Houses, Cornfields – And Empty Lots

By admin | Published: August 23, 2008

Read This Another Bush legacy – the exurbs. Between suburbs and cornfields, these are housing developments where you drive your Ford Expedition 5 miles for milk, 15 miles to the big- box store (like Sam’s Club) and another 7 to the Megachurch in your county. Everyone is uniformly white and right-leaning, Fox news does well [...]

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Reactive Logo Experiments

By admin | Published: August 20, 2008

So I’ve been experimenting with the idea of an interactive or reactive logo lately. I’ve been trying to ind the sweet spot between my interests in generative art and data visualization. Roundarch had an intranet years ago called Keystone, which evidently, was very slow, unappreciated and under-utilized. I of course didn’t experience any of this [...]

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A List of RIAs for My Cloud Computing Talk

By admin | Published: August 19, 2008

Please add to this list if you think of anything I’m missing. I’m looking for Web OSs and applications that supplant traditional offline apps… Aurora Acrobat Aviary Buzzword EyeOS Google Docs Px Picnik Splash Up Sumo Paint You OS (closed for business) Xcerion

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Phelps’ Photo Phinish

By admin | Published: August 19, 2008

Losing It’s Over

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Signal Patterns

By admin | Published: August 18, 2008

(vis signalpaterns.com) People signal their preferences to each other in many ways – through shared taste in music, common hobbies or professional interests, even through similar personality attributes. Signal Patterns recognizes and interprets the patterns in those signals, giving people new ways to connect with their friends and to the world around them. We enable [...]

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Political Data Visualization

By admin | Published: August 15, 2008
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Moving Into the Cloud

By admin | Published: August 15, 2008

So I’m reading this morning how Dell is following ASUS’ lead in embedding instant-on operating systems into their notebook products. The reasoning given is that [paraphrasing] ‘sometimes you want blackberry-like, zippy, instant access to the tasks you repeatedly perform 95% of the time but you want that access on your laptop’. The thinking is that [...]

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