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Archive for the 'Time' Category
Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress
You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know – there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
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Music: Imagine
It’s weekend and after all the bad news that people in many countries might soon starve to death due to food shortages and all the other disasters we hear about every day, we thought why not take a timeout for a few minutes and listen again to one of the most beautiful songs.
The three minutes watching the video and listening to John Lennon’s all-time-classic Imagine will definitely get you into a more positive mood.
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Books: A vintage Police “public relations” book
David from Davidthedesigner has provided us with a great find – a vintage Police “public relations book.
It did also make us smile…
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Learning: Computer Science unplugged
From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test – teaching people computer science without computers.
That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…
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Quote of the day: Blowing out torches
Blowing out torches is not an Olympic discipline yet – it does nevertheless require members of Olympic teams to participate
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Animation: Paranoland
Paranoland is the story about a fictitious country where people don’t trust each other and always expect the worst, until it happens. Maybe it’s not that fictitious anymore…
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