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 work into building a Lego-legged chair. The designing duo—–who create products together under the name […]
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, layout, color, and more. Here’s one of the pictures it made for SalvoLavis.com:
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Thanks, Wikipedia! This is really useful:
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Link: What Does China Censor Online? [Information Is Beautiful]
Visualization: What Does China Censor Online? Read More
Some online video fun/movie nostalgia/political propaganda — 160 of the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes, all rolled into one 10-minute video:
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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.)
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Very cool stuff — experiments in data visualization as presented in the Harvard Business Review:
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A nice explanatory graphic on curling from the LA Times (click to enlarge): Link: Curling: An Olympic Sweep [LA Times]
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Oh, the surprises one finds when waiting in line at CVS: Yeah. Get your copy here.
The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Great Buns & Thighs Read More
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 Nation, deals with the effects technology has on development and education. It then touches on
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