Archive for May, 2009

Sebastião Salgado – Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action [NYTimes.com]

May 31st, 2009

Photo of S. Salgado by Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times

Photo of S. Salgado by Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times

Sebastião Salgado spends weeks with remote tribes before taking a picture. He hikes 500 miles to be where he needs to be for the shot he has in his mind. All marks of a clearly dedicated and driven photographer. With this intensity and determination, when he says “I came here for special things, but my head is there, my body is there”…”I might be sleeping in a hotel room in Los Angeles, but in my mind I am always editing pictures” you can believe it.

Art – Sebastião Salgado – Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action – NYTimes.com.

User Interface Patterns

May 26th, 2009

ui-patterns.com

Since first reading the Gang-of-four’s book, I have thought patterns were a great idea. Now that I’m getting into design and data visualization more, I’m intrigued by the possibility of merging interface design with software patterns. Makes sense, don’t you think?

So, when I found UI-patterns.com, I thought “yes! here’s the merging of the two disciplines/approaches. Great. Now if I can just merge these patterns with Tufte-based principles and OVID-based development, I should be able to come up with a potent app in any environment.

Poly9 Globe: JavaScript-driven 3D globe app

May 26th, 2009

Found a JavaScript-driven Flash-based globe application for simple GIS apps, called Poly9 Globe: the lightest, most compatible 3D globe on the web. They have full API documentation, too. Pretty slick, if your requirements are simple.

MbUnit – Generative Unit Test Framework for the .NET Framework

May 26th, 2009

Found this interesting app to create unit tests called MbUnit – Generative Unit Test Framework for the .NET Framework. Need to look into it more, but it sounds like a useful tool.

Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com

May 26th, 2009

The next WWW will be linked data, rather than linked documents, according to guru Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com.

[Originally seen on ReadWriteWeb's blog post.]

My running history via slowgeek.com

May 25th, 2009

balinjdl running history (slowgeek.com)

I recently found a post on the Nike+ forums that describes how to get the running history (in detail). It also shows how to access the data via slowgeek.com, a very slick adventure indeed!

P.S. I was going to set up a running blog, but don’t know if I will now. Slowgeek.com gives me the data I was looking for, though I’m still itching to learn and use OpenFlashCharts!

PageGlimpse for website screenshots

May 24th, 2009

PageGlimpse home page

Just started using the
PageGlimpse API to show thumbnails of websites I reference, like the one above. Check out their site (http://www.pageglimpse.com/) for more details and documentation. Very very simple!

Data.gov open for business (and OECD seminar plug)

May 23rd, 2009



So, Data.gov is finally open and serving up links to data. I haven’t had a chance to dig in, yet, but since 3 of my favorite blogs (FlowingData, ProgrammableWeb, and DataVisualization) covered it, I thought I should at least mention it here.

P.S. Although not explicitly tied to data.gov, keep in mind the upcoming OECD Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge in DC July 15th and 16th. Amanda Cox from NYT is scheduled to attend. See accolades from Tufte himself. Woohoo.