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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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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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Cars: A hell of an accident
We’ve heard that some watch NASCAR races just for the accidents. Well here’s one to watch - Michael McDowell’s accident at the Texas Qualifying last Friday.
This is probably one of the worst NASCAR accidents we’ve seen ever, 185 - 190 miles on impact, flying through the air and then rolling across the track for a few hundred yards. The car looks like it went through the shredder and then - the guy just walks away.
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Weekend Activity: Browse the National Archives with Digital Vaults
The National Archives have put 1,200 of its 20 Billion documents online for access through an 2D search interface. Digital Vaults as the Adobe Flash interface is called allows you to explore photographs, documents and video clip plus the connections between them.
Once all interface elements are loaded, the application presents you with a series of starting point, click one and the image for the selected topic will be shown in the center of the window surrounded by related items.
Additional information is available for each of the items by clicking on them and…
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Time: The Millionaire Calculator
It’s Friday again and you have almost made it through this week. So if you’re asking yourself how much longer will I have to stay in this valley of misery - well here’s the Millionaire calculator.
It will most likely not help to cheer you up - but keep in mind, the 5 minutes you were using this little applet have just got you a bit closer to your target.
Anyway:
Best saving plan advice (”Dire Straits”)”…Get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free…”
For a better understanding of the overall concept we recommend Virus Comix’ “Circle of Life”.
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Time waster: Proximity of Needs
A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.
It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.
More information on the project page at…
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Games: Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy
If you enjoyed the Movie Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy then you will like this game. It is based on the classic text-adventure from Douglas Adams enhanced with some graphics and can be played entirely online at the BBC web site.
If you remember the old version, well this might also be a possibility to show your kids the kind of games you played when you’ve been their age.
Hint: The BBC shop still sells DVDs from their legendary series…
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