Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Scientific visualization (wikipedia)
visualcomplexity – A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
information aesthetics – data visualization & visual design
PingMag – Infosthetics: the beauty of data visualization
Science Magazine – 2007 Visualization Challenge Winner
The Ars Technica review of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard is probably not the best out there but I still like it (despite the annoying, unnecessary and presumptuous history lessons) – feel free to leave a link to your favorite review in the comments and I’ll link to it in this post.
Despite that it does contain a very good tip:
If you want the alternate look when the Dock is on the bottom too, type the following commands at a Terminal prompt:
% defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES% killall Dock
The alternate dock look is awesome! Absolutely love it.
And yeah last thing you need is to read another “me-too-upgraded-post” but just in case you need to know: everything went ok. letterbox is currently not working but it will be fixed soon according to the author. Apart from that everything seems ok. There are some compatibility lists out there that _might_ be outdated.
There is no easy way to create application shortcuts (a shortcut to an application that may or may not have arguments). It’s extremely easy to do in Windows and Ubuntu (<your-favorite-nix/linux-distro>) but not in OSX.
I’m sure that as usual, some idiot apple zealot (sorry for the pleonasm) is going to try (yeah try, comments moderated but they still try) to post a comment saying how that’s a good (great) thing, Steve Jobs is a genius and I’m dumb for not knowing that it’s such a good thing or even knowing what a shortcut is (like when I posted about the iPhone lacking a SDK and guess what? It will get one – in your face zealot 
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For those of us who use multiple profiles in firefox, there’s a small surprise in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon – firefox is no longer compiled with -NO-REMOTE as default. What that means is that now you have to pass the -NO-REMOTE option to firefox if you want to use multiple profiles simultaneously. Example:
firefox -NO-REMOTE -P work
Basically, just add -NO-REMOTE to all your firefox shortcuts (I have one shortcut for each profile).
KHinsider is a website I just found for downloading (standard http) game and anime soundtracks as either normal mp3s or as ringtones (haven’t tried to download any ringtone though).
Unfortunately, in order to use the mass download feature you have to either post in the forums or refer the site to other people. So even if you’re not interested in using the site, please click on the link so I can download entire albums without hassle. Thanks 
Top 10 Reasons Websites Get Hacked (2007) by OWASP via Zone-H/Full Disclosure.
I found Netbvibes UWA yesterday via Lifehacker.
UWA is the new Netvibes API. Through it, your Netvibes widgets will be available on every widget platforms or blog systems: Netvibes of course, but also Google IG, Apple Dashboard and many more…
I haven’t looked at it in detail but this sounds really cool.
I’m giving twitter another try. Aside from the social aspect, it could be interesting as a way for me to keep track of what I do, and when.
My twitter feed gets displayed in the sidebar on my webpage too.
I’m using twitterrific to both follow twitters and post to twitter.
Let’s skip the part about the why – that’s for another post, maybe. I want to create an application that has browser windows inside it. I’m hardly the only person to want to do this but there seem to be surprisingly few ways to do this if you consider cross-platform support a must.
Java can’t do it. In fact after searching I was only able to find 2 options:
Option a) wxMozilla – I already knew this one but considering the last version of it (0.5.4) came out in 2005 and there are at least few posts/emails around the web seem to indicate some problems – though I haven’t investigated this thoroughly.
The big plus of wxmozilla is that I believe this is what was used to develop gush and what I want to do (want != will) is very similar to gush in terms of GUI.
Option b) GtkEmbedMoz/Gecko# – this is the solution that I’m leaning towards.
Does anyone out there know any other options? Preferably something usable with either Java or Python (I really don’t feel like coding in C++) and Linux/Mac/Win support would be nice though only Linux/Mac support is strictly required.
UPDATE: having looked at things in more detail I don’t think GtkEmbedMoz/Gecko# is a good solution for me based on the OSX support and the fact that I’d rather use python for this. That leaves me with wxMozilla as the only option for now (and I’m not sure that it will work).
UPDATE2: while what is (was?) the main page for wxMozilla doesn’t show it, there is an April 2006 version of wxMozilla on the sourceforge page.
Based on my experience with Halo 1 and Halo 2, I think the escapist’s review of Halo 3 is probably the most accurate one out there plus it’s probably the funniest.
