December 3, 2009 – 11:24 pm
Vancouver artist Eric Testreote:
I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.
How great is this? So disorienting. Someone please start a make-your-own-big-head (MYOBH) business. I will be your first customer.
via BERG. Yes, [...]
December 3, 2009 – 11:18 pm
I always wanted one of these. Such a cool idea, but still can’t totally get into the new form factor. Seems so 80s clock radio.
I guess the old design was maybe a bit too crazy for non-early adopters?
November 14, 2009 – 3:17 pm
We do more world-changing things [in Vancouver] than the rest of the country combined. Why here? Is it because we have mountains? The best brand-new breakthrough ideas come from people who don’t think like everyone else. They have to be weird people. What was it that got them here and how do we preserve that [...]
November 14, 2009 – 1:33 pm
I started thinking when I saw this nice 3-minute infographic-y video perspective on “the future of computing,” via my bro at Crunchgear.
Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.
Interesting content, but I especially love the production – the way the animation matches up with the story-telling, conveying all the points more clearly by visualizing the metaphors. This [...]
October 20, 2009 – 10:00 pm
The O’Reilly Radar blog speculates on what a city with open data access might look like, in a recent post cleverly entitled How Long Is Your City’s Tail?:
It has all of the familiar city-run departments providing all of the services and assistance they’ve always provided – that’s not going away. Then it also has public [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:21 am
Stewart Brand is an intellectual magpie, drawing on an incredibly wide variety of sources for his new book Whole Earth Discipline. Fans of Brand will not be surprised at much of the content, as he has written earlier on similar subjects: the scope and scale of climate change, the dynamism of megacities, the controversy and [...]
August 26, 2009 – 11:36 pm
IBM technologist Jeff Jonas thrives on big data sets and personally identifiable information (“PII”). He built his career catching Vegas casino cheats by correlating database records, and now develops “next generation identity analytics” at IBM. I don’t consider myself a privacy fanatic, but I still count a document Jonas compiled on the vast amount of [...]
The Economist, of all publications, draws attention to the need for better data around biodiversity conservation in a recent short article, “Extinct and unmourned.”
In June the Zoological Society of London launched an online version of Scott’s books ["Red Lists" of endangered species]. It unpicks the existing global lists held in Morges and examines them at [...]
Former GBN co-worker and Worldchanging buddy Jamais Cascio is in the spotlight this month with two simultaneous big media articles: a WSJ story on geoengineering and an Atlantic story on enhanced cognition.
Both have been long-time interest areas of many futurists and foresight groups, but rarely have they gotten airtime like this. Cheers to Jamais [...]
Good post from Jim Fallows on the use of visual “thinking tools” for understanding complex issues. Argument mapping, the subject of the post, is like the structured, ultralogical sibling of graphic recording — both seek to distill the work of groups into a coherent, easily understandable form. For more on the need for such thinking [...]
