via FlowingData: makes me a bit nostalgic for the time when I'd have leapt at this and applied it to various datasets

from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

via Make, out of säljeflöte and ney

hmmmm… Milken Institute… where have I heard THAT name?

from Howard Rheingold's Vlog: on "revolutionary changes in the way we produce video"

"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…"

from whatisthewhat, balm in troubled times

honest to GAWD I really wonder sometimes…