fascinating live visualisation of recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs published on blogger.com. Emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms, which then physically transform an abstract shape-shifting object.
Wordle, a site that generates "word clouds" from a given text, helps us visualize some of the most pressing issues that the presidential candidates would like to imprint upon voters' minds these days. The size of the words indicates the frequency with which they appear. But which is which? Using text from John McCain's blog, one name really pops out, and it's not his: "Obama." And using Obama's blog, it's pretty much the same. His opponent's name doesn't show up at all -- eh, why even acknowledge the guy?
Take from this what you will. In any case, both candidates would do well to watch what they say on the Interwebs: Every word counts.
(LEFT: Word cloud created from Obama's campaign blog at my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog/ | RIGHT: Word cloud created from McCain's campaign blog at www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport
This image shows half the cerebral hemisphere of a macaque monkey. The blue bundle of fibers running horizontally across the middle of the image is called the cingulum bundle, described by Wedeen as “a multilane highway” that runs from the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in planning and higher cognitive function, to the parietal cortex, which is mainly involved in synthesizing sensory information.
While this image looks quite complicated, it represents only a fraction--about 10 to 20 percent--of the wiring in that part of the brain. “The images are so informationally rich that it’s a challenging engineering problem to show them in a useful way,” says Wedeen. “We want to show a large image to give context but a small enough fraction to give detail.”
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ok, so i like the colours, type is not great.
fascinating live visualisation of recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs published on blogger.com. Emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms, which then physically transform an abstract shape-shifting object.
This image shows half the cerebral hemisphere of a macaque monkey. The blue bundle of fibers running horizontally across the middle of the image is called the cingulum bundle, described by Wedeen as “a multilane highway” that runs from the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in planning and higher cognitive function, to the parietal cortex, which is mainly involved in synthesizing sensory information.
While this image looks quite complicated, it represents only a fraction--about 10 to 20 percent--of the wiring in that part of the brain. “The images are so informationally rich that it’s a challenging engineering problem to show them in a useful way,” says Wedeen. “We want to show a large image to give context but a small enough fraction to give detail.”
more from the technology review, here.
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mine's bigger.
is THIS a tshirt design? me wants...
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