Steven Frank, offers suggestions for future versions of trees in his thorough review of these carbon based thingamajigs:

If I could make one suggestion for future versions, it would probably be for trees to become “untethered”. That is, preserve the top portion without the intervening trunk. I have on a couple of occasions been walking down the street and gotten a branch in the face. This is a painful and, let’s be honest, humiliating situation.

Link: Trees Reviewed →

Based on Gapminder, of Hans Rosling fame, Google just announced their new Visualisation API one year after acquiring Gapminder. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this.

Via: Information Aesthetics. Link: Introducing the Google Visualization API →

Repeating the results from the World Color Study, Dolores Labs asked people to name random colors:

We showed thousands of random colors like this to people on Mechanical Turk and asked what they would call them. Here’s what they said:

Link: Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin? →

I guess I was wrong by an order of magnitude. Having wikileaks completely online again did not take three or twelve months. This took three weeks:

He acknowledged in open court that his order had led to questions about “a possible violation of the First Amendment.” As a teenager might put it, “well, duh.”

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The judge also saw that his injunction, even if had stood, was essentially useless. Other Web sites – some based outside this country – quickly picked up Wikileaks’ materials and reposted them, making the order moot almost as quickly as it came down.

Link: Thomas Elias: First Amendment to the rescue →