Chris Hanrath

Interesting visualization from the National Geographic on the Carbon Footprint of Wine consumption in the US based on numbers from a study by “Dr. Vino“.

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Larry Page’s speech at the University of Michigan graduation ceremony addressing the class of 2009 to “be lazy and get a little crazy“. There is also a transcript available.

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Windows 7 now visualizes progress right in the system tray even when the window is minimized. I like it!

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After logging in to Netflix today, i experienced a recently added feature to improve movie recommendations. These ratings are asking users to make statements about their taste for movies based on mood characteristics such as: “romantic, goofy, sentimental, dark, controversial, steamy, mind-bending, violent…”

These taste preference can be categorized into “never, sometimes and often” and are supported by six example movies to understand what netflix considers to be classified under the mood. These can be changed later on.

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I just discovered a neat interactive beta visualization for citations in scientific publications that i found on isiknowledge.com

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I just opened a blank new Tab on my browser and Google presented me with a context sensitive page suggesting most visited pages, recent bookmarks and recently closed tabs… uhm, Thanks! …I guess…

I wonder about the missing thumbnail screenshots, why an icon of a broken camera? Did i break something, or do i have to get my digital camera out and take a picture of each screen so that Google can post it? I am also not sure what the recent bookmarks are, since i don’t bookmark pages or click on bookmarks…

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