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My awesome list of links is now on twitter.

Joe Murphy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:55:43 +0000

I keep a collection (now more than 150 strong) of links to things I think are awesome. These links are the best of the random stuff I run across on the internet. Now you can follow my list of awesome links on twitter. If you don’t have twitter and do have a web feed reader, you’re in luck as well and can subscribe to the feed of awesome links here.

If you’re in the none-of-the-above category, you can go right to the source, where I save these so-called awesome links: http://delicious.com/joemurphy/awesome.

Here are some samples from the awesome list:

Enjoy!

What I’ve been working on in my day jobby-job

Joe Murphy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:17:40 +0000

I wrote up the work-stuff I got done on my work-stuff blog, Joe Think.

What do Nimrod Weiselfish, Tokyo Sexwale, Miracle Wanzo, Tanqueray Beavers and Princess Nocandy have in common?

Joe Murphy — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:05:54 +0000

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

Joe Murphy — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:44 +0000

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

Joe Murphy — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:30:35 +0000

This morning I could hear the cars drive by, a handful every minute. My street isn’t that busy, and the cars kept happening. The car-parade went into the afternoon — turns out Speer, the big street a block from my place, was closed to northbound traffic. Closed for a crime scene — Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot to death riding in a stretch H2 Hummer early this morning.

So, hey, happy new year.

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

Joe Murphy — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:36:35 +0000

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 aren’t anything except 100 points. Yah. It’s still fun, at least, for me. Check it out at http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/, and think of how this could be used in a local news situation…

Awesome ways to deliver information

Joe Murphy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:18:54 +0000

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 & Drugs Administration has approved (read Information Aesthetics’ post about Drug Quilt).
BBC’s most popular stories: Interactive data visualizations that are based on the real-time usage of the BBC news website (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
Flickr User Model:A sophisticated infographic illustrating the current user model of flickr, visually connecting the concepts of groups, feeds, blogs, contacts & so on (read Information Aesthetics’ post about ).
State of the Union visualization: A visualization of all all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006, showing how specific words gain & lose prominence over time, & linking information on the historical context for their use (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
Trends Timeline: A comprehensive visual map that merges various timelines of musical, technological, economical & political trends (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
Knight Rider dashboard: Several graphic design studies that focus on the information dashboard of the coolest car of the 80′s, & its talking voice: KITT (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
Email thread visualization:: It combines the chronology of messages with the branching tree structure of a conversational thread.

I also found two new blogs: Junk Charts is about visual data gone wrong, and many of its samples are from newspapers. Also, Presentation Zen discusses professional presentation design.