My little slice of the world
Following a Moon Shadow
Image courtesy PHL/UPR AreciboSeen from one of Japan’s MTSAT meteorological satellites, the shadow of the moon darkens part of the North Pacific during the annular solar eclipse last Sunday and Monday. Despite the diminutive shadow shown, the moon is actually a little bigger than a quarter the size of Earth.
An annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun, and when the dark moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.
A Finely Curated List of Data Tools
A fantastic resource for getting started in — and advancing — your work with data from some of the best in the business.
Via Datavisualization.ch:
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools is a collection of tools that we, the people behind Datavisualization.ch, work with on a daily basis and recommend warmly. This is not a list of everything out there, but instead a thoughtfully curated selection of our favourite tools that will make your life easier creating meaningful and beautiful data visualizations.
As Benjamin Wiederkehr writes on their blog, “It includes libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graphs and diagrams and tools to simplify the handling of data. Even if you’re not into programming, you’ll find applications that can be used without writing one single line of code.”
FJP Pro Tip: Jump in and start playing. If you’re just getting started, check out our short videos with Bitly data chief Hilary Mason for her advice on working with data.
(via lifeandcode)
The Peabody Stack Room of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland. The George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, dates from the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857. It contains more than 300,000 titles—most of which date from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Renowned for its striking architectural interior, the Peabody Stack Room contains five tiers of ornamental cast-iron balconies, which rise dramatically to the skylight 61 feet above the floor.
In addition to its traditional use as a research library, it is available as an event space. The library accommodates wedding ceremonies, wedding receptions, private dinners, holiday parties and lectures. (via Lisa Pisa)
Pierre Hardy Fall ‘12
Totally psyched dive bar girl is totally psyched.
New meme?
I honestly was wondering which half of the original photo, Obama or “psyched dive bar girl,’ would get the meme treatment.
President Obama at The Sink in Boulder!
Saw these both within minutes of each other on Tumblr:
“Nontechnical Founders Will Always Make Subpar Products that Fail Slowly”
and…
which states “Aaron Schaap recently wrote a great post on why you, as a non-technical entrepreneur, don’t need a programmer. What you really need is a technical co-founder.”
Contrails criss cross the sky. (Taken with instagram)
In Sunday’s New York Times
Awesome.
T plucks the best shoes right off the runway. Today’s shoe: a slingback with a giant round jewel on the toe.
