I’ve been interested in information design for a long time, have read most of Edward Tufte’s books and recently started playing with data visualization. The idea of taking a heap of data that is otherwise meaningless in its raw form, making sense of it in some visually meaningful way, and especially making it beautiful, is really cool.
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How to make Google’s AJAX Slide Show randomize your photos
I added a handy Google Slide Show widget to my site, which pulls images from an RSS feed from my photo site. Radical like Zinka, but there was no photo randomization. With a little 1337 h4x0ring I was able to do it. You, too, can get the chicks.
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Facebook-ified!
I have an unnatural affinity for “Liking” stuff on Facebook — especially my own stuff (why? because I can).
With Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative, they’ve made it easy for me to stick Like buttons all over my personal Web site, too. When you click one, a little man will carry your display of approval through some tubes to the Facebook, whereupon a trained monkey transcriptionist will bang away at a typewriter until something makes sense, finally sneaking into my house late at night to glue your message to the inside of my monitor.
Amazing stuff. Get your Like on.