So the other weekend I cashed in all my loose change. I had three coffee containers full – which ended up working out to be a little over $300! I used a coin sorting machine that gave me an Amazon gift certificate, and that’s now led to the following: That’s 17 books so I think… Continue reading Don’t Expect To See Me Out Too Much
A Failure of Metaphor
Unless you live under a rock you’ve probably heard that Congress voted down Hank Paulson’s bailout plan and then the Dow lost 777 points. The fundamental question is: why was it voted down? There’s a lot of speculation that it’s due to the deal being unfair, it being too kind to Wall Street, etc., but… Continue reading A Failure of Metaphor
Visualizing Information
A little over a week ago I attended Edward Tufte‘s day-long course on how to visualize information. What follows is a chronological summary of what he presented; the course consists of a series of infographics along with running commentary. The first infographic was actually an animation: the Music Animation Machine‘s rendering of Chopin’s Berceuse, opus… Continue reading Visualizing Information
Cutting It Up
I love bands who dance to their own music. It’s as if they wrote their own songs as nobody else could create anything they could listen to. Over the years I’ve found that these bands tend to put on the best shows. And so it was last night at Webster Hall where Cut Copy tore… Continue reading Cutting It Up
Is That A..?
Check out what was floating in the Hudson today: