Visualizing CO2 emissions
Australian eco-awareness ad, via O’Reilly Radar
And let them see what they do
Usually we think of the consequences of our actions after we act. Or maybe it’s not even us who acts, we just give them a silent permission. And maybe the consequences are unobservable if not looked for specifically »»»
Visualizing music lyrics
They’ve gathered a big Flickr set of infographics related to music lyrics. The above is my favourite — Madonna’s “Don’t cry for me, Argentina”. Click the image to explore more than a hundred others. Via Information Aesthetics.
Hang drum
Sounds wonderful. Invented in the XXIst century. Art in its commonsense meaning is not dead yet. Wikipedia about hang drum
Really no excuses
Apple now offers 2 million more DRM-free songs at iTunes Music Store, and guess what, they now offer it in 265 Kbps, for $0.99 per song. Thank you, Amazon. See why this matters.
Betagel
Japanese guys at Geltec invented betagel. On the video, they throw an egg from the roof of a 22 meter building (that would be about 7 floors) on a 0.02-meter thick layer of betagel (that’s less than an inch — thiner than MacBooks!) (Update Feb 2008 — OK, Macbook Air wins here). As you’ve probably guessed, the egg does not break (although it is likely to have been internally damaged). Remember that famous MBA problem?
Technology is for solving problems.
Content-aware image resizing
Brady Forrest points us to a video demonstrating content-aware image resizing. Basically, it allows you to resize an image without scaling or cropping it, beautifully cutting out unimportant stuff (automatically!) without usual scaling distortions or dumb cropping. Just watch the video — 4.5 minutes and it’s stunning.
