Wednesday April 3, 2002

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While the fish are happier in the pond I have a feeling it's a little cold for them. The waterbed heater I tossed in doesn't crank out lots of heat (it takes days to heat a cold bed, and that is indoors and covered). Yesterday Faith went to check out the fish and was stunned to find that all but two were gone. Predators? Racoons? Smudge? Nope. Waterbed. The fish have taken to hanging out inside the curled up heater. Yum, self cooking fish!



hyperbolic walrus

While reading David Weinberger's Kids version of Small Pieces Loosely Joined I got distracted by the really cool maps and visualizations over at An Atlas of Cyberspaces. The Information Space Maps section is very cool and I rather like Rebecca Xiong's work, People Garden. Their Wireless Network Maps looks familiar while the collection of Info Spaces is pretty bizarre, including PSDoom: Doom as in interface for Process Management. Yes, must kill daemon process...

Not shown here, but certainly worth a mention is the work done by Chris Stolte and Maneesh Agrawala on visualizing route maps, probably the most significant improvement to driving directions in decades. You can try them out for yourself over at mapblast.com.


Here's what Bill's morning commute looks like:
Bill's Pretty Big Commute