resistance to persistence

A cool visualization of this year’s web trends leaders. View it large – really large on flickr.

found via swiss-miss

The person in charge of street name assignments in this neighborhood obviously is a fan of some agile programming languages.

i’m normally not such a big microsoft fan, but this inspiration video has some amazing “out of the box” technical ideas and designs that i’d love to see come to life. 10 years is too soon, but it’s definitely inspiring if some of these ideas and interactions have even the possibility of happening. take a watch and see how exciting the future could be.

found via accordion guy

Make your images into polaroids

Poladroid makes your images look like desaturated polaroids. If you’ve got some fond memories of the now defunct polaroid cameras, download poladroid for your mac and turn digital pics into something that feels old and familiar.

monday night i attended toronto democamp 12. i was at democamp 2, a year ago but couldn’t never make the others since they were on tuesday and i had conflicts with other activities. this one was on a monday so i made sure to make it. even through a snowstorm, the turnout was huge and packed No Regrets restaurant in King West, the tech hub of Toronto. thankfully, we arrived early, got a great table in the center and settled back for an evening of tech demos. i won’t give the rundown on each presentation, but i snapped a few photos, so they should count as 13,000 words of explanation for the night.

in general, good presentations, i’d like to see a few more demos, but the updates from past presenters showed how successful some have been ($3M acquistion for bubbleshare!) and how much press and recognition people are getting thanks to democamp. i’ll definitely try to be a regular at more of these events.

View the larger photos at flickr.com by clicking on the thumbnails below.

Photos from Toronto Democamp 12

Today I came across an amazing site for visualization of complex systems. Graphic design along with visualization has always amazed me and this site provides so many examples. It’s a definite spot to spend lots of time browsing.

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.

buy a shirt – $18

with all the dangerous stories [video] of people trying to buy playstation 3 machines, be sure to show your friends you were brave enough to line up and face the crowds. buy a shirt to brag to your friends.

the results are in for the 2006 canadian blog awards and i’m very pleased to say that i’m currently in first place for “best photo/art blog”. i’m even in 2nd place for “best personal blog”. there’s some very good competitors and i’m honoured to be competing with them.

so what’s next?

round 2 of voting starts on saturday and runs for a week. only the top 5 continue. please give me a hand and cast a vote for me DAILY. it’s a close competition so every vote counts. go vote

Best Photo/Art Blog – Photo-Persistence
Best Personal Blog – Resistance to Persistence