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Page Revision: 2009-12-29 15:19

A cheap imitation of a blog, trying to keep track of things that I find interesting on any given day.

2009-12-29

• MandelBulb (thanks Patrick!)
  • 3D fractal rendering programs
  • zoomable rendered Mandelbulb image
• Microsoft SeaDragon smooth zoomable very-large-image viewer
• Microsoft Pivot entity collection analyser
• Tamás Nepusz's Last.fm artist similarity rendering
  • The idea of a 3D explorable version of this visualization (and others)
    

2009-12-27

• GovTrack.org, a site that tracks the law-making process for the US; what government should really be like...
• Copyright-Watch, tracking changes in that ailing law worldwide.
• EFF "Take-down Hall of Shame", highlighting some pretty amusing copyright infringement claims.
  

2009-12-27

• TrueCrypt, software-based disk encryption that can be used on several operating systems and, to a certain extent, on removable media in "portable mode" (requiring admin rights on a windows machine, limited to 2GB volumes on Windows Fat32 drives) or
• FreeOTFE, software-based disk encryption for Windows, also limited by Fat32 and admin rights but with "Explorer" program available for non-Administrator use.
• Hardware-encrypted USB drives in general
  

2009-12-18

• Tableau, a visualization-oriented BI tool attempting to combine the ease of Excel with the graphical power and interactivity of something like GapMinder.org