Centripetal Notion: category

DVD, iPod and HD Video formats are available for free via Bit Torrent at the film’s website. Some pretty interesting commentary on the economics of new media.

Trulia Hindsight takes property construction data and animates the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over the last couple centuries.

Boston.com estimates the total cost of the War in Iraq at around $456 billion. What could we have bought instead?

“Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.”

“Our techniques are inspired by graph layout algorithms that minimize edge crossings and distort node positions while maintaining their relative position to one another.”

I’ve seen Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, a stunning interactive display of world social and economic statistics, but I’ve never taken the time to watch his presentation at TED 2006 until today. His passion for visualizing data that thus far resides in a more nebulous region of global consciousness is inspiring.

“On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that sustains them.”

Think you have a brilliant idea about how sunlight relates to bear reproduction relates to milk prices? Me too. Put your data where your mouth is.

(video: first ~6 minutes of inaugural broadcast)

Here’s a good idea?: a mutual fund based on companies with exceptional user experience — including Apple, EA, Google, Jet Blue, Netflx, Nike, Progressive, RIM, Target and Yahoo.