Via information aesthetics, The Onion reports on "a series of centric circles [that] have begun emanating from [a] glowing read dot in the big blue area over [the newscaster’s] left shoulder." One of the funniest Onion videos ever, and a thoroughly wonderful comment on symbolic representation and the spectacle of news inforgraphics. Breaking News:…
The goal of Pangea Day is to unite the world through the visual power of short films. Submit your own by 15 Feb 2008 at http://www.pangeaday.org/.
Via Mind the Planet, “Yes We Can” by Will.i.am, performed by Will.i.am and others: This past Friday I was at Writers House at Rutgers talking with Richard Miller, Paul Hammond, Darcy Gioia, Elin Diamond, Carolyn Williams, and a few others about the future of the humanities, what Richard is calling New Humanities. Part of…
If:book points to points to WikipediaVision—an application by László Kozma that maps Wikipedia updates geographically in (very close) to real time.