Cool Look at Flight Patterns

I had a little trouble embedding this right so that you could see the controls, so just refresh the whole page if you want to see it over. Anyway, this is a full day of what American airspace looks like with flights starting up and winding down.

Pretty neato stuff.


>> Change as of Tuesday morning. The embedded Quicktime movie I had here last night made the page so heavy and I was having trouble scrolling smoothly. Please just follow the link above and check it out on the main site.

Sunday Funnies

I came across this this morning and it made me chuckle.

clipped from askpang.typepad.com ...the world's greatest pie chart. [via Daniel Pink] design, visualization

Can You Describe the Ruckus, Sir?

This is a nice little graphic containing the results of the poll that's become the talk of the heads this weekend.

If nothing else, I was kind of interested in how they chose to present these numbers. They were able to cram a lot into this, but I might have put the adjectives on left and right side, alternating by whether the word was positive or negative.

I think that would have made it easier to scan up and down for within-group trends.

Oh well...

Postage Rates Going Up Again

I was kind of annoyed to find that postage rates are going up again, and I would think that they could find a better way to do this. But I did a quick search and Wikipedia had a nice chart of how stamp prices have gotten into whack with inflation rates over time.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

This is Really Effin' Cool

I came across something yesterday that was really nifty.

While I have to figure out a little bit about their methodology in placing people on the political spectrum, it's nonetheless a nice application.

PresidentialWatch08 charts out the political blogosphere both in terms of political leanings and as a social web map, so you can see who links to who.

This is very cool stuff, indeed!