The World

July 17, 2006 2:21 AM

The World: processed, metered, distorted, littered with icons, or just floating there in front of you. [java, flash, all that jazz]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken (16 comments total)

Hey, that was neat!
posted by qwip at 3:27 AM on July 17, 2006

it'd be neat to have 3d glasses for the last one :P or a holotank!
posted by kliuless at 3:29 AM on July 17, 2006

Great post, particularly the world processed.
posted by johnny novak at 3:39 AM on July 17, 2006

The Wolrdmapper site is great. There is something comical about maps with obese China and the US. It's funny how how Australia is pretty tiny on all the maps, excluding many of the exports.
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 3:42 AM on July 17, 2006

The infoview app gives me faith that at least SOMEBODY is putting java to good use. I'm addicted to infoporn... anybody else got any favorite equally wow-worthy infographics to share?
posted by phylum sinter at 4:00 AM on July 17, 2006

Wow...that infoview app rocks.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:40 AM on July 17, 2006

Cool post. Thanks, stav.
posted by sveskemus at 5:02 AM on July 17, 2006

saw this on rw yday; not infographics per se, but a glimpse of how and what we might be interfacing with in the future...
posted by kliuless at 5:05 AM on July 17, 2006 [2 favorites]

Like this post, but less good.
posted by runkelfinker at 6:10 AM on July 17, 2006

Wow! look at that population growth. Maybe we should pay people to quit having sex. I'm already doing my part and I could use a few bucks.....
posted by haikuku at 6:23 AM on July 17, 2006

This is good. I actually had a chance to see the "World Processor" exhibit at the P3, a funky museum in Tokyo, many years ago. Nice to see it still making the rounds.
posted by adamrice at 7:12 AM on July 17, 2006

Infomagnet: Try Arms Export Destinations for 2002 from the United States.
posted by odinsdream at 7:27 AM on July 17, 2006

phylum sinter writes "anybody else got any favorite equally wow-worthy infographics to share?"

Try the information aesthetics weblog. Lots of juicy infovis on a daily basis.
posted by youarenothere at 7:55 AM on July 17, 2006 [1 favorite]

That's some fine Infovis, youarenothere... I could go through this stuff for days. Often wonder why there aren't collections of the more static versions of this stuff being archived by newspapers and the like. Information Aesthetics gets my bookmark of the week.

Also: I guess it is largely a double post, runkelfinker... but it's worth a second look [maybe?]
posted by phylum sinter at 11:12 AM on July 17, 2006

Like this post, but less good.

Whoops. That'd be right. Serves me right for posting lazily before bed.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:06 PM on July 17, 2006

Neat!
posted by jason's_planet at 9:29 AM on July 18, 2006