Monthly Archives: February 2010

Chilean Earthquake Tsunami Travel Time

By C.G. | Published: February 27, 2010

Speaking of cool visualizations, Zero Hedge brings us another one from the National Weather Service: the Chliean Earthquake Tsunami travel time. Very cool, indeed if we forget the horrible destruction the earthquake and potential tsunami caused. Chilean Earthquake Tsunami Travel Time Estimates | zero hedge.

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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Big Buck Bunny

By C.G. | Published: February 20, 2010

How did I not hear of this sooner? Big Buck Bunny is an open source movie! Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, BBB is an HD quality short film created entirely out of open source software. A team of animators were flown to Amsterdam in October 2007 and only seven months later, the [...]

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Street Fighter IV: iPhone Edition

By C.G. | Published: February 20, 2010

When I was a kid, I wasn’t very good at most video games. I don’t know if I never paid attention to the gameplay as much as the others or if I just wasn’t skilled enough. When I became a teenager and hung out at the local arcade place (Spaceport, I think was the name [...]

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Short Animated Film: Vegeterrible

By C.G. | Published: February 13, 2010

I love animation. Feature length or short like this one, animated movies have always captured my attention. I think its the limitless ways to visually tell a story and the ease in which emotions can be conveyed; CGI is great but hand drawn animation, IMHO, still outdoes even the best Pixar has to offer. Anyway, [...]

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