clock … watching time, the only true currency

I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely.
What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with dated [...]

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Since I’m disappointed with our Sony digital camera, I pay attention to roundups like this one: “Looking beyond megapixels” But I get annoyed when the links leading to the NYTimes branded version of CNET don’t lead straight to the right camera, though. The Fujifilm FinePix f50fd looks like a possibility. (I wasn’t impressed that the [...]

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I pre-ordered Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence from Amazon. After reading two of his earlier books (I own Visual Display), I was looking forward to his first in years. Bottom line… the book is beautifully made, and two chapters shine, but this tome feels more like a collection of uneven essays than the tour-de-force of his [...]

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Yesterday’s sneak peek at Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, included Time Machine. This archive/journaling/backup application has a nifty UI, at least in demo mode. We’ll have to wait to see if it’s actually useful or not, but it sells well.
But what I was struck by was that Time Machine appears to be [...]

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Tim Bray resurrects a presentation he gave in May, 1996 entitled “Measuring the Web.”
A worthy part of history, and now it will be preserved in various caches for… well, a long time. Some of the sites named are long gone, and no longer well known. Infoseek, for example, where I interviewed in December, 1996, when [...]

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Good for the BBC: BBC News live stats
At CNET News.com, What’s Hot is updated with data hourly, and when new stories are published. Some of the Most Popular data is updated in near-real-time, though most is daily.
For so-close-to-real-time it becomes useless (but still interesting), try Digg Spy.
Showing usage back to the users… that’s fun stuff. [...]

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One of my worst purchases ever? The Ambient Executive Dashboard. This device, with its three faceplates, and swinging indicators, promised to open up analog, real-world display of information which is normally constrained (not locked) in digital arenas.
The problems?
First, the device’s wireless coverage was miserable, in an office building in the heart of San Francisco’s business [...]

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(Click the thumbnail for full-size.) I don’t know what this picture says about my blog’s structure, but I’m interested in different visualization efforts all the same. Here, clock’s HTML source as a graph, courtesy of Sala. No last name given, but let’s assume the aharef in the domain is a last name until we [...]

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