http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
neat to see E coast go to sleep & wake with red-eyes at 6 am
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
neat to see E coast go to sleep & wake with red-eyes at 6 am
Nice demographic #maps (property values, crime &c) of NHV + other cities https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ct/new-haven Related RedZone app https://appsto.re/us/fGYg7.i
Avoid navigating through dangerous areas
RedZone Map by Zone Technologies Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/fGYg7.i
But if you have to go there keep your finger on the button
SafeTrek – Hold Until Safe℠ by SafeTrek, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/4PuSQ.i
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ct/new-haven/crime/
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ny/new-york/crime
Federal R&D Budget Dashboard
https://www.AAAS.org/page/federal-rd-budget-dashboard Great #DataViz of cuts & buildups of days past. NSF+NIH is dwarfed by DOD #funding
[US] Essentials Are…More Expensive While…Toys…Cheap
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expensive-to-be-poor/361533/ … #InfoGraphic comparing prices of new cars v repairing them
College & health care up & TVs, down
Can You Tell if These…Are…Rendered?
https://www.Wired.com/2016/12/skrekkogle-still-life/ @Skrekkogle makes the real appear simulated. Implications for photo evidence
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“The Norwegian design studio Skrekkogle played this game with Still File, a series of photos that look like renderings but aren’t. Instead of manipulating pixels on a screen, studio founders Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Zamudio-Tveterås created and photographed sets that look like scenes made with 3-D rendering software. “It’s a weirdly elaborate process,” Vedeler says.
In particularly cool photo, they 3-D printed three wildly distorted teapots, gave them a flat finish, and glued them to the background before photographing them as a surrealist scene. In another, they placed a marble, a plastic cone, and a wood-lined cube atop checkered paper lacquered with acrylic. The camera’s flash reflected the checkerboard pattern onto the objects, creating a false sense of depth.”
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What Horrifies Roaches & Grows on Trees? Now on the ground – the
#osage orange! http://www.NYTimes.com/1994/11/27/nyregion/cuttings-what-horrifies-roaches-and-grows-on-trees.html More at https://www.FLICKR.com/photos/mbgmbg/tags/greenthing