Entries for November 2008
I have talked about sparklines before and this seems to be a very well done implementation of them in Flex. Putting this out there for me as much as anyone else. See also: Flex Spinner.
Pretty convincing arguments for an old sea making soil fertile for cotton production which made it more likely to have higher populations of slaves which translates into higher population of blacks today in these areas surrounded by higher population of whites. Worth a read.
For those of us who suffer withdrawals when our hands leave the keyboard.
The description says it all: "A quail inside a cornish game hen inside a duck inside a chicken inside a turkey inside a goose. With bacon between layers." Click through for the picture.
David Dunlap is taking modern photographs of old photos and providing you a great way to see the present and past together and compare. I would love to do this with some old pictures of Memphis.
You have seen Minority Report, now see the real tech that it inspired. Slashdot has a discussion about it too, although in typical fashion the majority of that crowd seems unimpressed. I say this is some pretty cool tech with a lot of possibilities for large data set visualization. Bottom line, I want to play with it.
I would like to start out by saying I am not making this up. If you check the wikipedia history you can see that I have not edited this article. I also submit the following Google Trends page as further evidence, along with my original source at buzzfeed.
That being said, this is fairly genius, although disgusting. And according to the wikipedia article, it seems to have a very high success rate.
Some awesome images in here, but its really surprising the wide variety of images that they have. For instance: They have images of Paducah, KY. I particularly like this aerial shot that is marked as April 1952.
Alec Sloth asks a bunch of other photographers two questions. When did you first get excited about photography? And what advice would you give young photographers?
I am going to start a "ProTip" series on the blog to just share some tips and tricks I have learned along the way that might make your life easier. They will probably be few and far between but hopefully they will help when they come along.
So for my first ProTip, with gmail, you can add a + sign and then something else to the end of your username and it will still be sent to your address. For example, if your email address is johndoe@gmail.com, emails sent to johndoe+foo@gmail.com will still get delivered to your inbox. Why this is cool is because in gmail you can set your filters up based on the email address that the email was sent to. So you can filter on everything that gets delivered to johndoe+foo@gmail.com to be automatically flagged with the tag "foo" and marked as read for instance. You can make up whatever you want after the plus sign, as long as its not another plus sign, space or @ sign.
Now the bad news is a lot of sites don't follow the specs and don't like to accept a plus sign in an email address. But for those that do, it can be a great way to filter your email address and make sure that your email address isn't being handed off to the wrong people.
Google thinks it can tell us about flu outbreaks across the US quicker than the CDC. They have the data that shows they should be able to do just that. This could change a lot of things. I can imagine many other things being able to benefit from this. More discussion at slashdot
via kottke, a graphical representation by county of how the US voted. If the election was won by landmass only it would have been a much different outcome. It really helps you visualize too the vast difference of population density of the rural areas compared with the larger cities.
Sorry for the lack of updates still but I still haven't gotten my groove back since the wedding. But we have finally started uploading some of the wedding photos. So far we have just done the after wedding photos but we will have the rest up soon hopefully.
Posting has been light around here lately because on October 25th I was married to the love of my life and I had the privilege of taking her to Jamaica for our honeymoon. We stayed at the Sandal's Dunn's River Resort. It was a great time, beautiful weather and a trip we will never forget. I'm sure I will have more about the trip and Jamaica in general later on, but for now enjoy the pictures we took.