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- Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky: A Tour through the Visualization Zoo
Very nice article with some cool visualization graphs – do not miss the interactive versions of the pictures shown.
- Putting the Risk of Terrorism into Perspective
Over long time, and especially since 2001 many people are very concerned about terrorism – and much money is spent and lots of silly procedures have been invented to protect us.
This very good article puts the risk of terrorism … - Frank Schirrmacher: Payback
Zu Anfang hat mir das Buch gefallen – aber schliesslich hat mich vieles eigentlich eher ärgerlich gemacht, es ist insgesamt chaotisch, voll von pseudo-kausalen Zusammenhängen und Erklärungen, und macht damit einen unausgegorenen Eindruck, der viel mehr auf Panikmache und Polemik …
- How to change ANY user interface …
Very interesting thoughts and technology for intercepting user interaction at the pixel level, thereby allowing UI control across all applications (and OSs).
-> Prefab - Text 2.0 – utilizing eye tracking
Fascinating ideas around using eye tracking in the context of reading.
The video is very nice – it makes one think that this is ‘good for me’ although the tracking part is quite frightening wrt privacy (just thinking about ads …).
-> … - TED Talk: Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
Cool TED talk about art using technology – very nice examples of using input from interaction with people watching art!
- Brett McLauglin, David Flanagan: Java 5.0 Tiger
Nice and concise book showing the new features of Java 5 (Yes, I know, there is Java 6 now – but then I wasn’t aware yet of many of these features, and I guess, 6 doesn’t have as many so …
- V Geronimenko, Chaomei Chen (Eds): Visualizing the Semantic Web
Mixture of different articles with some background, some technological, some application articles.
Few things I found interesting to keep in mind:
Using Google to test for semantic meaning (by counting hits of statements basically)
Use of P2P technologies for storing semantic data (in … - “Open Company” – Experiment
Noteworthy experiment with an “Open Company” – the idea being that everyone should be working on what he would like to work. The Open Company is taking the idea of open source projects to the company level: anyone could …
- Andy Clark, David J Chalmers: The Extended Mind
Fascinating article about the mind and how confined/extended it might be.
Using pen and paper to perform long multiplications is the first step of externalizing cognistive processes – but we are more and more on a route to have many …
- TED-Talk: Scott McCloud: Understanding comics (2/2005)
Very nice talk – content- and presentation-wise – from Scott McCloud on TED.
Among a background of his person and work, he also lists the most fundamental points for him in getting successful work done:
Learn from Everyone
Follow No One
Watch for … - Amy Thomson: Virtual Girl
I like this book very much – I just read it again after many years. It is the story of a ‘virtual girl’ – which means a robot girl in this context. Created by a human in a world which …
- Neil F Johnson: Complexity in Human Conflict
Looking through the book ([asa mybooktitle]3540752609[/asa] by Dirk Helbing (editor)) I stumbled on this article, and it sounded interesting. Reading it, it investigates prior and new work regarding human conflicts – especially distributions of size of casualty numbers in different …
- Apache Tomcat 6 on Mac OS X
Installing Apache Tomcat 6 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard -
Very good explanation how to get Tomcat running under Mac OS X!
- Quiz: What Should You Really Fear?
Quiz: What Should You Really Fear? – Interesting Quiz revealing how much our perception of risks and events differs from reality. E.g. related to things about terrorism.
- Genes-Memes-Temes
In the beautiful collection of TED-Talks I stumbled across a recent (June 2008) talk by Susan Blackmore – known e.g. for her book [asa mybooktitle]019286212X[/asa].
She starts out by talking about evolution being a ‘must’ given variation, selection and …
- Ideas with paper
If paper is needed – here some nice ideas where/how to use it:
How to Make a Folded-Paper CD Case » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: folded, paper, cd, case -
Calendar – Strip Horizontal or Vertical for … - Bookmarks for August 6th: IBM Pensieve
These are my links for August 6th: IBM Pensieve
This seems interesting to me – use a mobile device like a phone to collect information in pictures, words and sounds, combine it with time & place information (if the devices supports). …
- What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is another buzz-word of this time, but its meaning is fuzzy (e.g. like the Web 2.0), ranging from pure virtualization to * as a service.
This article gives 20 definitions from various experts.I like this view of Michael …
- Extrapolating visual input into the future – and optical illusions
As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes …
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