Tuesday, May 25, 2004

300 Images From 1800 Sites

An interesting design concept:
300 Images From 1800 Sites
This would be a welcome addition to a usability engineering class.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Gospel Album by the Bolthouse Twins

Here's a record that's shooting to the top of my "must have" list:
The Bolthouse Twins
"Gospel Music"
Sound SLP-134
197-
I could find a couple of links, including one that's selling the album, but that defeats the purpose doesn't it?

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming
Big Star - The India Song
Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go
Department S - Is Vic There?
The Pogues - Dark Streets of London
The New Main Street Singers - The Good Book Song
Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Oh Death
Sidney Bechet - Viper Mad
Steven Jesse Bernstein - The Sport
Nick Cave - Stranger Than Kindness
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

Monday, May 10, 2004

musicplasma : the music visual search engine

Quite an interesting way to display visual data:
musicplasma : the music visual search engine
I tried a couple of searches and though I agree that I like the connecting artists it came up with, I'm not sure this would be the case every time.
I tried searching on Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman, got a lot of obvious relevance matches like Dave Edmunds, Rockpile, etc., but I'm not sure this would be the case every time.

Social Security posts the Popular baby names for last year

The newest data from the social Security Administration:
Popular baby names
I also love the feature where you can see the 1000 most popular names for any given year.

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

The Paragons - The Tide is High
Planet of the Apes Soundtrack - The Hunt
Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island (YUCK!)
They Might Be Giants - We're the Replacements
Lennie Hibbert - Village Soul
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Make it Good to Me

Google Fight : Make a fight with Googlefight

Google Fight : Make a fight with Googlefight
I'm probably way behind the curve on this one but thought this was a great idea.