At TED 2006, Hans Rosling presented some cool data visualizations created to shed light on trends in Human Development (specifically health and economic prosperity). He and his nonprofit Gapminder have done some cool things with visualization to bring out aspects of the data that get ignored, but as he notes, we haven’t got the holy [...]
Seeking new technologies to leverage a couple months ago, I had an opportunity to review microformats as a way of making content more portable on a site project. Content + microformats = crazy delicious It’s easy to find developers and markup standardistas lauding microformats as the next great thing, and as a currently-implementable stepping stone [...]
This has been sitting in the drafts folder neglected for a good 7 months, time to let it free… Though I didn’t make it a priority when it first hit, the new Battlestar Galactica series has had my attention since last spring. Being a latecomer to Firefly, and having decided to try and catch some [...]