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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
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Point a camera at the sky, create a time lapse video of the clouds. Do the same thing every day of the year. Play back all the videos simultaneously in a grid. Voilà: a kind of phase-diagram visualisation, with seconds representing minutes and space representing seasons. Brilliant.
More detail here. Via Data Pointed.
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This is apparently pretty [...]
Things 66: ChatRoulette piano, Tube Door Challenge, Free Will
(Originally sent March 2010, maybe)
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ChatRoulette is a fascinating site whose mission is simply to connect you to a random person to video chat with. This is just as good and bad an idea as it sounds. I don’t recommend visiting (particularly if you have a webcam active as it will attempt to throw you into [...]
Things 49: Galaxy Rising, Tube Time Visualisation, Back Flip Variation
(Originally sent May 2009)
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Time lapse of the stars at night – be sure to watch to the end to see the Milky Way rising:
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
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A simplistic but interesting data visualisation showing travel times from and to different parts of the tube network [...]
Things 18: Layton Squares, Lesson Learned, IWIWAL
(Originally sent June 2008)
This week’s films — one line reviews
The Happening was a huge disappointment, anticlimactic in every way.
(My review: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mpa9ViwoMg)
The Incredible Hulk was impressive yet strangely forgettable.
(My review: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWgo9TXvKk)
Next Week’s film
Wanted. It looks like the standard Hero’s journey (ordinary guy discovers he is in fact the son of the world’s best assassin and must take up his [...]