• Code For Walmart Growth Visualization Now Available
  via FlowingData: makes me a bit nostalgic for the time when I'd have leapt at this and applied it to various datasets
  (tags: geospatial visualization chronology)

• Essence of the "Rescue" Plan In Comic Form
  from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
  (tags: economics argybargy)

• Handlebars as wind instrument
  via Make, out of säljeflöte and ney
  (tags: musics)
• Making Sense of the Mortgage Meltdown
  hmmmm… Milken Institute… where have I heard THAT name?
  (tags: economics visualization)

• Vernacular video
  from Howard Rheingold's Vlog: on "revolutionary changes in the way we produce video"
  (tags: video vernacular)

• Knowledge Cartography
  "This website aims to present the results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations.
  The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography…"
  (tags: visualization mapping geospatial)

• banksta
  from whatisthewhat, balm in troubled times
  (tags: argybargy ecosystemic)
• MAKE: Blog: Artist has hard time getting back in to US for drawing of a crocheted SUV
  honest to GAWD I really wonder sometimes…
  (tags: argybargy)

• NPR: Meet The Bailout Boss
  with eyes like that, who needs superhuman powers?
  (tags: ecosystemic argybargy)

John Battelle points to his retroGoogle ego-search in the Google of 2001, so I tried it myself: January 2001 found me in the thick of things, most of them long forgotten. Lots to think about in the intervening 7+ years too…

• Map of the Market
  pretty nice presentation
  (tags: visualization economics data)

• Crime and Punishment – a set on Flickr
  (tags: photography vernacular)
• Flickr: juffrouwjo’s Photostream
  remarkable collection
  (tags: photography vernacular)
• The Whole Earth Effect from Plenty Magazine
  yeah, pretty essential for me for about 40 years…
  (tags: metastuff whole-earth)