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Tag Archives: Maps-and-Legends

Intel Inside: musical meanings in an ad and a jingle

Here’s an example of one of the ways that YouTube should be genuinely valuable: in decoding and deconstructing propaganda. This particular instance, a thirty second ad for the Pentium processor from 1995, examines the jingle especially closely. (via Madame Lévy)

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Cerne Abbas intervention, again. This time it’s Homer.

The small but perfectly formed controversy over Homer Simpson’s appearance in the field adjoining the Cerne Abbas giant has brought a little traffic this way already today, before I’d even got around to considering whether to run with it here. … more…

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links for 2007-01-09: visualizations, fabrications

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (tags: visualization design charts concepts map) 3D programmable woodcarving robot It’s hard to tell from the site how fine the results are with this machine — but this stuff is getting very affordable, very … more…

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links for 2006-12-18: xkcd

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe (tags: visualization IP internet map networking)

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