http://www.wowblog.co.uk The only regularly updated collection of news and views on the Internet. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So far, all we've got are a few scenes. Contributions welcomed. 1. A street corner in Baltimore. Young men of various ages run to and fro, taking money from and drugs to buyers who drive up in big SUVs. As they work they sing: [Chorus] Pandemic! It's the stuff that makes your juices ... http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=711 Stefan Wehrmeyer's lovely map of nightbus journey times in London. This has gone extremely viral already but anyway, nuclear explosions 1945-1998. Hard to believe there's any Arizona desert left. Stephen Walter's amazingly detailed London Island. Using flickr tags to derive subjective neighbourhood boundaries. Lovely map of London bike hire availability. http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=710 Blaise Aguera y Arcas showing the latest developments at Microsoft around mapping: Bing Mapping Must say that with Microsoft buying up Seadragon, they're taking a lead in GIS. This all stems from their buyout of Seadragon. Mr. Aguera y Arcas showed this off a couple of years ago: Photosynth Microsoft are calling one of the ... http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=709 Wait a minute, Dettol No Touch Handwash. You're telling me the very thing I currently use to clean my hands of germs may be exposing me to even more germs *gasp* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgpdI_2cko But wait a minute, just last year weren't you selling... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vijCM5_SA&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ceCSb39NA&feature=related (Funny, I can't seem to find an English version of ... http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=708 Yes, it's a zoomable 26 gigapixel photo of Paris, the biggest image ever stitched apparently. It looks brilliant, and there's loads of info about how they did it here. You can see right into people's windows! Unfortunately nobody seems to be doing anything interesting. http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=706 Found this presentation from a recent GIS conference analysing data from the DublinBikes stations. Probably nothing that surprising in the results, but I like the way they got the data by scraping it off the DB website. 7A_2_Preliminary results of a spatial analysis of dublin citys bike rental schemeView more presentations ... http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=705 They've just released Tableau Public: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/download http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=704 I like the last paragraph of this To steal from their biggest fan, whom I know personally, "But they're both so talented, it's so hard to decide" http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=703 This via the Guardian Carfull now! http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=702 Moonwalk One, the poetic, beautiful, fascinating film about the first moon landing was broadcast last night on one of the Discovery channels. Lost for 35 years and rediscovered about a year ago, it's a mix of documentary and a sort of film-poem, both touching and informative. Discovery decided to show the ... http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=701