September 30, 2008

another graph - election 2008

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , — bise, 2:50 pm

“This graph illustrates tweet volume for specific terms mentioned during the course of last week’s presidential debate.” (http://blog.twitter.com/)

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September 29, 2008

Charts

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , , — bise, 3:14 am

Found this via infosthetics.com

from the comments this one:

if you are loving charts, you should also check: http://graphjam.com/

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September 25, 2008

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , , , , , — bise, 11:00 am

A Forum that looks for illigalbillboards in New York.
“Activists estimate that half the billboards in New York City are illegal. Between fudged permits, lack of enforcement, and millions in profit, outdoor advertising has become a corporate black market that wont flinch at breaking laws to get your attention.”
http://illegalbillboards.org/
see also:
http://www.billboardliberation.com/
or:
older news (2006) about the ban of [...]

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titanic

Categorie: politics — Tags: , — bise, 1:39 am

grad auf titanic.de gesehen:

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September 24, 2008

Free Dictionary for your Mobile Phone

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , — bise, 11:24 pm

I’ve always been looking for a free dictionary which I could use on my cell phone. I must have been entering the wrong keywords in google for a long time, because there are serveral, as you could expect. So I tried two of them yet:
jlearnit
and
openmobiledictionary
I could really test the first one, because the text [...]

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Dmitri Gaskin jQuery

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — bise, 1:30 pm

Dmitri Gaskin is a programmer and core developer for drupal.
He did a presentation in april of this year about the jQuery framework. So even if you don’t know what JavaScript is and don’t care about programming at all: have a look at this video. The boy is amazing… and just 12 years old!

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September 18, 2008

Let’s loose some weight…

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , , , , — fraehnk, 9:44 am

..eerrm by weight i mean money. Here is a nice infographic from the Wallstreet Journal showing the awesomeness of lossing of 1.8 Trillion dollar.

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September 17, 2008

Transform your PC into a Mac

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , , — fraehnk, 8:09 am

This sounds to good to be true: Just plug in th EFI-X usb dongle into your motherboard and you are good to go installing Mac OS X Leopard on your PC to turn it into a Mac Pro.
Hot Link.

Bonus: The new Macbook Touch on the Oct. 14th Apple event.
Update: Here is the cheap alternative a [...]

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Robots and Doughnuts

Categorie: art — Tags: — fraehnk, 5:41 am

Enjoy some paintings of Robot Art here and here.

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Polygon playground lounge object

Categorie: art — Tags: , , , , — fraehnk, 3:24 am

The “Polygon Playground” is a large scale interactive lounge object. It offers room for up to 40 persons at a time to walk, sit and explore its multifaceted surfaces. Gradient ramps guide to the top plateau or offer space to sit and rest. The installation features a software aided 3D surface projection system to cover [...]

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