Tweets- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
- halavais: I'm quoted in a story in CT Post on PleaseRobMe: http://is.gd/9TIlL . Poor Finn is only 215, not 250. Now I'm going to the park :).
- halavais: Watching the livestream from TEDxNYED: http://www.livestream.com/tedxnyed
- halavais: "That's a low price to sell your soul," (on the LA Times selling out its front page for advertising). http://is.gd/9Nr1f
Monthly Archives: December 2006
InfoVis Porn
I love this music video. I only wish real life information visualization was this fun. I wonder if there were toolsets they used to produce this, or if it was all original animation…
Visualizing Legal Argument
This looks like a fun conference: Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings. For reasons that shouldn’t be all that hard to figure out, over the last couple of years I have been increasingly interested in the way lawyers assemble and understand information. Especially with complex litigation, the amount of information [...]
Comments return
Thanks for all of your comments on… my comments. I got about a dozen comments and they were all great. I implemented the following:
1. Create content that sucks. That way, you aren’t a good target. (I thought I was already doing that, but will redouble my efforts.)
2. Block a set of IPs recommended by Dreamhost. [...]
Cerebral enema
Checking out movies for tomorrow, and run across Fandango’s description of The Tiger and the Snow, the Benigni film that has been getting lukewarm (at best) reviews. What’s it about, I wondered. Aparently, the lead’s girlfriend is suffering from a terminal cerebral enema. There could be worse ailments, I suppose.
Live Giant Squid
Looks like a Japanese team has filmed a live, tiny (24 foot) giant squid on the surface near Ogasawara. Well, live until they caught it, that is. So, they’re on the side of the boat saying how pretty it is–why not cut it free. I guess I know why not, because we don’t usually find [...]
Festive Yule!
I have never liked the phrase “Happy Holidays.” It just sounds so insipidly commercial. This year I caved (damn Wal-Mart!) and put Merry Christmas on our cards, but that doesn’t really hit it right either. I actually like holidays. Sure Christmas isn’t quite as fun as Halloween, but what if I want to enjoy the [...]
Omnibus Film Review: latter part of 06