Cool Infographics posted a link recently to a neat infographic entitled “Population of the Dead”
What I find most interesting is that in the history of the world, it seems (as far as the creators have estimated) that only 106 billion people have ever lived.
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Population of the Dead Infographic
January 17th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: infographics · link · visualisation
Deforestation
January 12th, 2010 1 Comment
I watched Maya Lin’s “Unchopping a Tree” today and it is incredible to think about an issue like deforestation this way.
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Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What [...]
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Urban Environments as Living Organisms
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
I grew up in a small town and have always thought of buildings and construction as mankind making purposeful changes to their structures, be they houses, barns, irrigation systems or roads. The concept of change in this manner, as I took it, was very methedological and systematic: controlled and orchestrated by man.
Now, as a young [...]
Trying out Google Wave Embedding
October 15th, 2009 No Comments
I finally got an invite to Google Wave. Sorry, I don’t have any others at the moment. I’m interested not only in Wave as a standalone product, but in its eventual integration into all manner of web technologies. In that vein, I’m trying out embedding a wave using Wavr. Here goes:
Tags: Google Wave · plugins · wordpress
Anxiety Ho!
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
I’ve been feeling exceedingly anxious lately and haven’t been posting much. I haven’t been doing much of anything lately, but I seem to have crested the wave and am now heading towards something a little more stable. In the meantime, check out some awesome things I’ve been reading about:
The Fruit is a Lie (via kottke.org) [...]
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Pixel
August 11th, 2009 No Comments
I don’t play very many games. Especially games that require me to be dextrous, smart, or handsome. Unfortunately, this means I don’t play a good many games. I do like the look and sound of them, and can judge them (as I am a judgey kind of person)
Enter Pixel, a brilliantly designed game wherein you [...]
Ottawa Transit Rider Reform
July 20th, 2009 No Comments
For the past several years, Ottawans have been subjected to endless news articles, reports, assessments and other miscellany about the upcoming transit reform. We’ve seen councillors battle out whether or not we should invest in light rail, and more recently about where the light rail should run, and finally about whether it should be underground [...]
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