What I’ve been working on in my day jobby-job
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I wrote up the work-stuff I got done on my work-stuff blog, Joe Think.
Archive for the 'Links' category
What do Nimrod Weiselfish, Tokyo Sexwale, Miracle Wanzo, Tanqueray Beavers and Princess Nocandy have in common?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
They were each winners in this decade’s “Name of the Year” awards (Name of the Year is a group founded 25 years ago to “discover, verify, nominate, elect, and disseminate great names.”)
The 2007 winner was just crowned: Vanilla Dong. See the full list of winners at the Name of the Year blog here.
New Favorite Site: WheresGeorge.com
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
It’s silly — track the places your cash has been — but I like it. I got a one-dollar bill with www.wheresgeorge.com scribbled on it, I plugged in the serial number, and hey — that dollar bill was in South Carolina six months ago. Yes, this stuff entertains me. Yeah, I know.
Where’s George
Off to a weird start
Monday, January 1st, 2007
Update: Found a new reason for happy: I found the mp3 of the cover of Paul Simon’s Graceland by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. It’s superb, one of the best “make it your own”-type covers I know.
Being a librarian can be fun: Google’s Image Labeler
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Found this last weekend: it’s a game that matches you up with a partner and shows one image at a time. Each of you guess labels for that image, and when both of you guess the same label you move on to the next image. Each image you both guess earns you 100 points, which […]
Awesome ways to deliver information
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
I caught up on the last four months of posts from Information Aesthetics, this blog about “data visualization and visual culture.” Here are the highlights (link to the site followed by IA’s description and link to the IA blog post):
DrugQuilt: A dynamic data visualization of the brand name & generic drugs the US Food & […]
