Monday, March 15, 2010
Flickr Flow / Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (click through for full color wheel)
“Using an algorithm developed for the WIRED Anniversary visualization, our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel. The image below is an early sketch from the piece. Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise.”

Flickr Flow / Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (click through for full color wheel)

Using an algorithm developed for the WIRED Anniversary visualization, our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel. The image below is an early sketch from the piece. Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise.”

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
ajamison:travismaybe:


This is one very clever logo.

ajamison:travismaybe:

This is one very clever logo.

Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.

Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.

Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place. Had he lung cancer, breast cancer, or colon cancer, then the cost of the drug — $4,555 per treatment, two times a month — would be totally covered by Alberta’s version of OHIP.

But he doesn’t. And so he is not only a victim of brain cancer, he is also a victim of arbitrary discrimination.

Toronto Sun (via sds)

Hooray, let’s have Canadian healthcare in America! Oh wait…

Monday, March 8, 2010

The water utiity in Edmonton, EPCOR, published the most incredible graph of water consumption last week. By now you’ve probably heard that up to 80% of Canadians were watching last Sunday’s gold medal Olympic hockey game. So I guess it stands to reason that they’d all go pee between periods.
But still—the degree to which the water consumption matches with the key breaks in the hockey game is stunning.

The water utiity in Edmonton, EPCOR, published the most incredible graph of water consumption last week. By now you’ve probably heard that up to 80% of Canadians were watching last Sunday’s gold medal Olympic hockey game. So I guess it stands to reason that they’d all go pee between periods.

But still—the degree to which the water consumption matches with the key breaks in the hockey game is stunning.

Do You Know The Difference Between A Browser and a Search Engine?

Only 8% of the people surveyed in Times Square are able to distinguish between a browser and a search engine.

Friday, March 5, 2010

soupsoup:

Jon Stewart plays ChatRoulette

As usual, John Stewart is the man.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
unsolicitedanalysis:


rosasparks:

This is Steve Burns.
Steve, from BLUE’S CLUES!
Whut?

unsolicitedanalysis:

rosasparks:

This is Steve Burns.

Steve, from BLUE’S CLUES!

Whut?

Friday, February 19, 2010 Thursday, February 18, 2010

Time my driving is at it’s most dangerous and extreme: when Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” plays on the radio… High—way to the DANGER ZONE!