During the course of the US Presidential Elections, the New York Times had a beautiful visual depiction of who had the best chances of being elected – titled 512 paths to the White House. This is a “how did we do it” story – How the NYT created its “512 Paths to the White House” data tool
Author: neil
Does Sugar Kill? [Article]
Om Malik shares, weekly, a list of 7 articles to read. This link exposes Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies – does sugar kill?. Call it serendipitous, but another blog post by Mr.MoneyMoustache (MMM) used an infographic created using scissors, paper, glue & advertising junkmail to rant about the extent of our consumerist lifestyle.
Prisoner of the Blackberry [Article]
Robert Kaplan tries to persuade us to switch off – In the Information Age, with constant connection to home and work, we’ve diluted what it means to experience someplace new.
Smart-phone use [How to]
That Google Nexus S smartphone I got is great, but the data plan to use it is quite expensive. This article on How To Drop Your Data Plan And Keep Using Your Smartphone helped to keep it manageable. I was lucky enough to take it to the next level – I got my employer to pay for it! 🙂
Pooch Index [Article]
Dog ownership, like cocaine use, can be seen as an economic indicator, says the The Pooch Index. (India ranks in the bottom 5, but I’m guessing if they did a survey of stray dogs, that position would reverse pretty quickly!)
Brain Surgery [Video]
No, but it’s close. How do you cut a bagel (or a donut) into two intertwining, interlocked bagel parts, unbroken, one twisting through the other (also known as a Mobius bagel)?. Here’s the computerised version, but watch this kid doing it in 15 minutes in class! (he’s going to be a brain surgeon, surely!)
Why Education? [Video]
He’s probably one of the most important contemporary philosophers. Noam Chomsky spells out the purpose of education in this video
Credit Card with personality?
As if plastic money isn’t addictive enough for a whole generation who’ve never seen cash, MasterCard issues a new credit card with its own LCD Screen.
Sacrilege! [News]
Just saying, now that the Pope has decided to join Twitter.
Citizenship Beyond the Election
Thoughts from the CTO of the US govt… http://codeforamerica.org/2012/11/07/citizenship-beyond-the-election/