November 2009

“What Would Bubble Up, And What Would Stay In The Background”

November 18, 2009

Guernica, the “magazine of art and politics” has lately featured, in a surprisingly synergistic manner,  many topics I muse about and folks I “know” from Sepia Mutiny and other diasporic blogs. In I Don’t Want To Fight, V.V. Ganeshananthan (aka Vasugi, Sepia Mutiny contributor extraordinaire) and Amitava Kumar discuss what makes a South Asian book [...]

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Making US Unemployment Maps

November 17, 2009

If you don’t know already from some of my VizWorld posts, I’m a Flowing Data fangirl. Nathan Yau is the younger, hipper, nerdier Edward Tufte, and one who likes to share his sources and techniques. Understandably, Tufte has his trade secrets, but it was like pulling teeth to get him to share what tools and [...]

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What’s Behind The New Site & Blog Banners?

November 12, 2009

[Warning: This post has a creative writing assignment at the end.] me: Check it – http://vatul.net/ Turkeys. Aliens. Turkey aliens. I call it Space Turkey. ['Cause I speak of the Pompatus of Pumpkin Pie] D: ummmm yeaaaahhh reminds me of pigs in space me: PIGS IN SPACE D: I used to have that poster me [...]

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“An Optimal Return On Our Investment In Science”

November 11, 2009

In other words, get our little and big kids learning.  What are we waiting for?  An economic depression in which the most creative thing we can come up with is spending money on bread and circuses, casinos and throwback jerseys?  Wait. TechDailyDose | Top Scientists Urge Access To Research A group of Nobel Prize-winning scientists [...]

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Mes De Los Muertos

November 10, 2009

This is D and me at a Halloween 2009 party. We’d done up our faces to look like Day Of The Dead calacas. With the UV light from the stage hitting our faces and that light enhanced in Photochop, I sat back and noticed that I look like death.  No, not Stage-6 H1N1 but the [...]

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This Is A Test

November 6, 2009

Looks like yesterday’s post titled links for 2009-11-05 posted and reposted itself a dozen times overnight, eventually turning into links for 2009-11-06. I use the Blog Autoposting Tool (Beta) on del.icio.us which “creates a daily post of your latest bookmarks to your blog.” I wonder whether it went nuts or my WordPress install is on [...]

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links for 2009-11-04

November 4, 2009

GISUser.com | Maponics ZIP Code Boundaries Captures Record Number of U.S. Postal Service Branch Closings (tags: maps mapping GIS geography) Maponics Zip Code Boundaries Enter your zip code to see what geographic area it covers. (tags: maps mapping GIS geography) Tweet

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It Can Be Done

November 4, 2009

General Robert Van Antwerp, chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, recently stated that “New Orleans can no longer be protected from hurricane storm surges” and that “half of Louisiana will be under water by 2100.” Back off, man. I’m a scientist. The latest research indicates that sea level will rise at most 1 [...]

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Send Extra Halloween Candy To The Troops

November 3, 2009

From Kiss My Gumbo: If you have leftover Halloween candy, how about sending it to the troops? Not only will deployed heroes enjoy the treats, but often they pass them out to local children to improve relations. Kids and parents can send extra Halloween candy to Soldiers’ Angels, who will make sure it brightens the [...]

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“Everywhere You Go, Take The Weather With You”

November 2, 2009

Randall at VizWorld noticed that Weather Underground has a new 3D weather radar feature.  “They overlay the existing 2D terrain & radar map with a 3d isosurface extracted from the data.”  It requires a quick install of the Unity Web Player.  (By the way, the Unity game/environment development tool is now available for FREE. Go [...]

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