Lego Island
Saw this very cool kitchen island made of Legos in Dwell Magazine: According to the magazine: The idea for Simon Pillard and Philippe Rossetti’s Lego kitchen sprouted five years ago, when Pillard put 500 blocks and a day’s worth of…
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Wordle – word cloud art
Just tried this “cloud art” using Wordle–a self-proclamied “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” You can pipe in your website URL, or paste in any text. Then you have a bunch of cool control over design,…
Visual Aid: Synonyms, homonyms, heretonyms, and more
Thanks, Wikipedia! This is really useful:
Visualization: What Does China Censor Online?
Link: What Does China Censor Online? [Information Is Beautiful]
160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes
Some online video fun/movie nostalgia/political propaganda — 160 of the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes, all rolled into one 10-minute video:
Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick
Nathan Sawaya creates some amazing sculptures entirely from Legos. Check out his “Art of the Brick” Gallery for more cool pictures. (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan’s blog for turning me on to this.)
Four Ways of Looking at Twitter
Very cool stuff — experiments in data visualization as presented in the Harvard Business Review:
Curling: An Olympic Sweep
A nice explanatory graphic on curling from the LA Times (click to enlarge): Link: Curling: An Olympic Sweep [LA Times]
The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Great Buns & Thighs
Oh, the surprises one finds when waiting in line at CVS: Yeah. Get your copy here.
Frontline: digital_nation
Douglas Rushkoff is back with another Frontline. A man who’s made a name for himself as a “ponderer” of all things mass media, Rushkoff’s work is usually intriguing (Merchants of Cool), if not pedantic (Growing Up Online). The latest, Digital…