Travel time heatmap visualization旅行时间heatmap可视化

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 周二, 2006年11月14日

Some very interesting work happening in the UK by mysociety.org studying travel time related to mode of transport (particularly rail versus car).一些非常有趣的工作发生在英国,由mysociety.org学习旅行时间有关的运输方式(特别是铁路银两车) 。 I really hope such studies will happen in North America, I suspect it would highlight where it would be efficient to invest in rail infrastructure for commuter and cargo ...我真的很希望这些研究将发生在北美,我猜想,这将突出的地方,它会有效地投资于铁路基础设施为通勤和货运...

More music madness - Songbird, a time-lapse mashup and other music miscellany更多的音乐疯狂-鸣禽,一时间推移混合及其他音乐杂项

Saturday, October 7th, 2006 周六, 2006年10月7日

40 years of pop music summaried in 37 minutes Before I get to one of the more interesting pieces of music aware software I have seen lately, I need to credit Alex Gelfand with another interesting music nerd article in Wired: DuBois...has developed a technique he calls "time-lapse phonography." 40多年的流行音乐的总结,在37分钟之前,我得到一个比较有趣的作品的音乐知道的软件我所看到的最近,我需要的信贷徐家gelfand与另一个有趣的音乐老古板的文章在有线:杜波依斯...制定了技术,他称之为“时间推移phonography ” 。 ... DuBois devised ...杜波依斯设计...

Visualizing scale可视化规模

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 周二, 2006年8月29日

A great collection of scale visualizations.一个伟大的收集规模的视觉效果。 Worth a quick browse if you want to regain some perspective on the universe (photo from www.rense.com).值得一快速浏览如果您想要恢复一些的角度对宇宙(照片从www.rense.com ) 。 Signal Versus Noise is the blog of 37 Signals, a company which has shattered the usefulness to complexity ratio with apps I use daily such as Basecamp and ...信号噪音是博客的37个信号,该公司已打破了有用的复杂性与应用服务的比例,我用每天如basecamp和...

“Comprehension follows perception” “理解如下的看法”

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 周四, 2006年6月22日

I follow a number of interesting blogs, but few are as consistently interesting as information aesthetics. i跟进了许多有趣的博客,但很少是一贯有趣的信息美学。 They have really clued me in to the importance of presentation in making information come alive.他们真的clued我在向的重要性,介绍了在决策信息来活着。 It also emphasized the absurdity that throughout my science education, lots of emphasis was put on converting data ...它还强调了荒谬的,在整个我的科学教育,大量的重点是对数据转换...

The Wild Kingdom of “Spore”野生王国“孢子”

Monday, March 20th, 2006 周一, 2006年3月20日

Spore looks to be a truly amazing game in the works from the original creators of Simcity.孢子期待着成为一个真正了不起的游戏,在工程从原来的模拟城市的创造者。 It seems to combine elements of some other classic simulation strategy games such as Populous and Civilization, crossed with the more modern "god" games such as Impossible Creatures and Black and White.这似乎相结合的要素其他一些经典的模拟策略游戏,如人口众多,文明,越过与更现代的“神”等游戏是不可能的动物,和黑与白。 One ... 1 ...

Bobsled bobsled

Friday, March 17th, 2006 周五, 2006年3月17日

Dan Fischer of Paradrenaline fame and the legendary Step Up for the Cure event recently took a trip to Lake Placid where apparently you can spend $40 to run and ride in a bobsled.丹菲舍尔paradrenaline淡泊名利,传奇加紧为治疗活动最近采取了一趟,普莱西德湖的地方,显然你可以花40元,运行和乘坐在一个bobsled 。 He has a great story about how he actually managed to get on the course but ...他有一个伟大的故事,谈起了他是如何,其实管理,以获得对过程中,但...

Small news, very small news小新闻,非常小的新闻

Thursday, March 16th, 2006 周四, 2006年3月16日

New Scientist reports on DNA Origami: A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed "DNA origami".新科学家报告对DNA折纸:在地图上的美洲测量短短数100毫微米全国已创建出精心折叠组成部分的DNA ,采用一种新技术,操纵分子被称为“ DNA的折纸” 。 According to the map's creator, Paul Rothemund at Caltech in Pasadena, US, DNA origami ...根据该地图的创作者,保罗rothemund在加州理工学院在帕萨迪纳,美国, DNA的折纸...

MRI magic磁共振成像魔术

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 周三, 2006年3月15日

Looking inside yourself is quite surreal, and I'm not talking about introspection: I had an MRI scan due to a nagging back injury from indoor ultimate.展望内自己是相当贺岁片,和我谈的不是反思:我有一个MRI扫描,由于一恼人的背部受伤,从室内的最终。 The whole process was quite fast, about 20 minutes.整个过程是相当快,约二十分钟。 You get loaded into a very tight space so this is definitely not for the ...你装上成为一个非常紧迫的空间,所以这绝对不是为...

Killer Beans杀手豆类

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 周二, 2006年3月7日

Speaking of coffee, Fishbooks and I like to get our fresh ground espresso nearby at Cafe Union.谈到咖啡, fishbooks ,我想获得我们的新鲜地面附近的咖啡在咖啡馆联盟。 Highly recommended for their deep knowledge of all things espresso related, their friendly service, and their coffee bar.强烈建议为他们深入了解所有的东西,咖啡相关的,友好的服务,和他们的咖啡吧。 Our precious Gaggia machine was born there.我们宝贵的gaggia机是在那里出生。 And speaking of killer beans (see my last post) ...谈到杀手豆类(见我在去年的后) … …

Musical genetics and the future of “radio”音乐遗传学和未来的“广播”

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 周三, 2006年3月1日

What if the radio just knew what you wanted to listen to?如果电台只知道什么你要听? Could a radio station learn what kind of music you like?可一家电台了解什么样的音乐你喜欢吗? Would you listen to a channel that can play songs you have never heard but will probably like?你会听一个渠道,可以发挥的歌曲你从未听过,但可能会想? Well thanks to Kirsten, internet lurker extraordinaire, and by ...以及感谢基尔斯滕,上网lurker extraordinaire ,并...

Superballs rock! superballs摇滚!

Monday, February 13th, 2006 周一, 2006年2月13日

When I was a kid I played a lot with superballs.当我小时候,我打了一场很多与superballs 。 So of course I loved this commerical (for Sony Bravia whatever that is - see below).所以我当然喜欢这种商业( Sony Bravia为,无论是-见下文) 。 Invented in the 60s, they were mass produced when I was growing up in the 80s and available in all kinds of cool ...发明了在60年代,他们大规模生产时,我是成长在八十年代,并适用于所有种冷静...

Mashups: from hobby to art form to controversy mashups :从业余爱好,以艺术形式争议

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 周三, 2006年2月8日

An interesting collection of musical mashups is posted online.一个有趣的收集音乐的mashups是张贴在网上。 Mashups are an ever popular form of musical expression albeit mostly illegal as they are derivatives of copyrighted material clearly exceeding the currently accepted boundaries of "fair use". mashups是一个以往任何时候都受欢迎的形式的音乐表现,虽然大多是非法,因为他们衍生物的版权保护的材料显然超过目前公认的边界“公平使用” 。 Nonetheless these "bootlegs" have been a growing aspect of musical culture spread by ...然而,这些“ bootlegs ”已日益方面的音乐文化传播...