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Author Archives: Thomas Guy
Limited Parking
I just came across a story in the Guardian with some great photos illustrating an interesting problem caused by the economic slowdown. It seems that the arrival of the slowdown was so abrupt that auto manufacturers didn’t really have time to adequately ramp down production. Now, I know what my ever-so-intelligent readership is thinking: “Duh,Continue reading “Limited Parking”
Beautiful Fractal Newsmap
This is nothing new, but for those who have never seen it the visual newsmap is really quite something. From the site description: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.Continue reading “Beautiful Fractal Newsmap”
Obey Valentine’s Day
Obey Giant Japanese Fabric Pattern Set (Red) Shep Fairy is releasing a new fabric pattern set he’s putting up for sale tomorrow. We think it looks like it might make a fancy Valentine’s Day gift. The set of four prints is limited to an edition of 100 and will be selling for $120 each.
RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II
This is a continuation of a post from 2009-02-10. While the post-IPO price of Google shares was still inflating the company engaged in a dot com buying spree perhaps only previously rivaled by giants like Yahoo! and IAC. They shopped for small groups serving this niche and consolidating Google’s control in this proto-industry before anyContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II”
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