(via FlowingData)

Voornamenprofielkaart van Nederland: "The researchers compiled the 177,000 different names given to the 4.2 million children born between 1983 and 2007, and were able to link these statistics to data relating to the place of birth…"

I, for one, REALLY want to know what-all is on that iPad… and wouldn't it be interesting to be able to see the history of its users' explorings of the contents?

(this one is really worth your time to read and ponder, and the comments are pretty rich too)

via LanguageLog, of course

(from the Bangkok Post)

an amazing use of the iPad and Autodesk's SketchBook Pro, really inspiring

too wonderful

via Flowing Data

If you're not already a fan, this might encourage you in that direction. Among the serendipitous gems in the accompanying text, I quote this passage:

Lovelace and Dodgson both loved Euclid (Lovelace: “It is a very pretty little Theorem, so neat and tidy: the various parts dovetail so nicely!”) and the emerging field of symbolic logic, and both stumbled through the Nameless Wood of calculus. Lovelace wrote to De Morgan “these Functional Equations are complete Will-o-the-wisps to me”, and Dodgson, after four years (!) of studying Mathematics at Oxford and despite coming at the top of his class, writes “talked over the Calculus of Variations with Price today; I see no prospect of understanding the subject at all.” You may need to recalibrate your judgements of people’s math by the way: Carroll was already lecturing in mathematics at Oxford when he described the end of Differential Calculus as “new to me” as late as the 1850s!

really worth your time: "…the rise of Oncorhynchus mykiss contains a bizarre and fascinating cache of insights into human motivations and misunderstandings… the rainbow trout is –like corn– both biological instantiation and evolving allegory for our complex relationship with nature, our misguided interventions, and their unintended consequences…"