——-Top Five———
1. Low temperature superconductors, for fun (or trainset toy of the future, as long as kids don’t mind losing a few fingers occasionally). Other slightly safer fun with magnets.
2. A glorious exploration of books.
3. Why the Daily Show wins Emmys… (or “was that racist enough?”)
4. Amazing performance pay experiment.
5. Crowd-narrated events (I’d rather Jon Stewart’s show just have a sidebar video feed that illuminates doubletalk in real time but I guess we’ll have to wait for that one…)…
Voting visualizations over the past 160 odd years
———-The Rest————
Dissecting Esquire
Movie Clothes coming soon to an overloaded supersaturated always on attention deficit economy near you.
Maybe after you see someone wearing one of those you can use one of these
Watch this whole thing, fun with youtube…
And a less than successful attempt to turn youtube into a gaming platform…
17 years, 2 photos a day, now animate it
Infoporn of the week…
a new movie is coming out about the national debt, called IOUSA. By the guy who did wordplay… it looks like it’ll be chock full of animated infographics (which should be possible to do in comotion soon, no?)… (click on the picture to the right to watch a collage from the movie)
This year’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners are up!
Why some people are given genius grants, wonderful exploration of materials.
Synecdoche, NY by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine, Being John Malkovich)… is coming soon.
Mechanical geek alert…The Corpus Clock
cat 5 compliant wedding rings…
Last year’s retreat book’s author has a new feature on his site called storymaps. oh, and a new book on the way for the holidays…
Xbox rips off the Wii’s Miis…
Some really nice one sentence stories
Not robotic Walking desks
This can’t be good.
Reversible destiny is the idea that you should live in a house that makes you work a bit for things…
Cute as a button.
Playful
(ok I hit “translate” on this one, not bad on the fly translation by the googlebot)
The future will be melted
Obey (or Shepherd Fairey has a posse)