Vizsage

More random software ideas:

• Google search, restricted to find bug reports only. You'd crawl usenet, sourceforge/google code, debian etc. build farms, open issue trackers, mailing list archives and blogs; extract things in 'pre' tags, and look for repeated stanzas (these indicate where bug was pasted in).
• NTP server along the lines of the procrastinator's clock, that would dither the time (by extending or delaying each second) by up to a set amount fast, and never slow. You'd have to be careful with rsync, server logs, kerberos/cookie session stores/other authentication... or maybe just use it at the app level, if your clocks will use NTP themselves.

Labels: bug, clock, delay, fast, idea, late, NTP, procrastinator, report, search, software, time, tracker

Posted by flip at 1/08/2008 12:48:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

I've written an applet that lets you reimagine the geography of greater Washington, DC area with "distance" measured by subway-travel-time, measured by subway-travel-cost, or as the standard clarified subway wall map would deform it. This was in large part inspired by Oskar Karlin's beautifully rendered Isochronic Elephant-Castle map of the London Underground and the interactive tube mapplet from Tom Carden. Subway Maps of the world all on the same scale is pretty interesting, as is this directory of remixed London Underground maps. There's a few interesting images on wiki commons, like this geographical map within this gallery. Also, you can download the image files (very large, register with each other) from Wikipedia:

• Greater Washington, DC Area: Road Map
• Greater Washington, DC Area: Topological Map
• Greater Washington, DC Area: Aerial Photo

Labels: data, DC, differential, geometry, isochronic, london, map, mapping, metro, subway, time, tube, underground, visualization, vizsage, washington

Posted by flip at 8/27/2007 10:06:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post