…in an act of sheer laziness that will shape the course of human events for centuries to come, peter merholz shortens weblog to blog, in order for it to fit in the sidebar of his online diary…
the evolution of the blogger, how come so many of them have glasses i wonder…
for the tenth consecutive december in a row, the ‘new york times magazine’ …has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas… and well worth a look it is too some really nice, silly, smart and odd ideas bundled together… as americans tend to say ‘that’s neat’
…instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world…
beautiful data visualisation project from ‘paul butler’ an intern at facebook, see a hi-res version also here
about time too, mister sagmeister has finally updated his website (complete with live webcam feed as navigation) not sure i need merchandise, but it is nice to see more recent work and various other content posted…
Did your work experience at the Leo Burnett agency play a large role in your deciding that maintaining a small business was better than running an office of over 100 people?
Yes, that was the major reason: I saw at Burnett that I will not be able to actually design when my office is bigger, and I saw the advantages of a large office for the clients as tiny, while the disadvantages were huge.
learn something everyday (tip via ‘uwe’)
