Bouncy Ride
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Visualize the most viewed wikipedia articles, or compare the views of different articles. Here's more information about the launch from Jeff Veen: Announcing Wikirank.
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"I've always thought their status updates design was brilliant. Not because it was usable or attractive, I've always thought it was terrible. But because their design didn’t make promises they couldn’t keep." Painful and true advice: make sure you can deliver what you promise through design. [via rc3]
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"The pupil measurements showed that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it."
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"As a survivor of the postage-stamp era, college was my big chance to doff the roles in my family and community that I had outgrown, to reinvent myself, to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity. Can you really do that with your 450 closest friends watching, all tweeting to affirm ad nauseam your present self?" [via davenetics]
Music Share: Bebo Valdés
I'm enjoying just about everything from Bebo Valdés right now. He was a pianist, arranger, and band leader in pre-revolution Cuba. He arranged high energy big band songs like this, Bilongo sung by Rolando Laserie:
Valdés left Cuba for Europe and continues to record today. I especially enjoy his solo piano work where you hear echoes of his time at the Tropicana like Cuba Linda from his 2006 album Bebo:
See also on YouTube: Americana from his Blanco y Negro concert. You can find more of his early big band songs on Guapachá con Bebo Valdés y sus Amigos.
Valdés left Cuba for Europe and continues to record today. I especially enjoy his solo piano work where you hear echoes of his time at the Tropicana like Cuba Linda from his 2006 album Bebo:
See also on YouTube: Americana from his Blanco y Negro concert. You can find more of his early big band songs on Guapachá con Bebo Valdés y sus Amigos.
Sun for the Dog
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this app "...makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day." This looks great, but I'd like the app to remind me not to do any photo color-adjustments at night if I open Photoshop.
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"Joe Raiola, Senior Editor of MAD Magazine will present his one man show, The Joy of Censorship." Sounds fun. At the Corvallis library April 4th, 7pm.
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A recording of The Decemberists in Austin. [via protherj]
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This little plug computer that runs Linux looks like it'd be fun to play with.
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The new iPhone OS will have an interface for physical peripherals. "A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for personal and urban informatics that's going mainstream?" I missed this new feature in all the cut+paste celebration.
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One computer scans incoming calls for the Caller ID number and then broadcasts the number over the network to various devices. Looks like something fun to hack around with.
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That's not Chernobyl, it's Detroit. [via kottke]
First Flowers
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Funny image demonstrating the difference in Google's suggested queries for various phrases. "how 2..." yields different suggestions from "how might one...".
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This reminds me of a great line by Borges where he said monkeys could talk if they wanted to, but if they did humans would put them to work.
Music Share: On Green Dolphin Street
On Green Dolphin Street is my favorite jazz standard. I just never get tired of the melody. Here's the 1958 Miles Davis Sextet version featuring Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley:
And for contrast here's the same song recorded by Chet Baker a year earlier with a complete lack of urgency, West Coast style:
See Also on YouTube: Sonny Rollins 1968 where the structure of the song is hanging on by a thread.
(You can get both tracks on Amazon for 99 cents.)
And for contrast here's the same song recorded by Chet Baker a year earlier with a complete lack of urgency, West Coast style:
See Also on YouTube: Sonny Rollins 1968 where the structure of the song is hanging on by a thread.
(You can get both tracks on Amazon for 99 cents.)
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"This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need." [via migurski]
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People share and vote for their favorite command-line snippets at this site, and these are the most popular. Didn't know about "sudo !!"—that's worth the price of admission right there.