Actionscript 2.0 made better
If I was starting a big Actionscript 2.0 project - I would use the CASA framework. I work with some of the people who built it - and have used aspects of it. It is really great because it helps you write code that cleans up after itself really well. There is lots of great documentation and it is open source - yay.
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Missing the point
"Connecting the dots" has become a euphemism for scapegoating Arabs and Muslims across the world for war and global insecurity. Tracking the Threat does a good job of distracting us from the real dangers that face us: nuclear war, global warming, and a war which is led by the wealthiest nation on the poor of the world in the name of 'fighting terrorism.'
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Retrievr
Description from Site: Retrievr lets you find flickr images by drawing rough sketches of them. Finding images on Flickr is mostly textual (tags, keywords) or social (contacts, friends, groups). Retrievr is, like images, visual. At the same time it's our testbed for image retrieval algorithms, so that when you add an image to a page in System One, it gets you the potentially most similar pictures back in realtime.
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Disappeared in America
From Site:
DISAPPEARED is a project by the Visible Collective that uses technology-art, sculpture-installations and lectures to humanize post 9/11 "disappeared" Muslims. The majority of migrants detained in recent security hysteria were from the invisible underclass of cities like New York. They are the recent immigrants who drive our taxis, deliver our food, clean our restaurant tables, and sell fruit, coffee, and newspapers. The only time we "see" them is when we glance at the hack license in the taxi partition, or the ID card around the neck of a vendor.
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Somewhere between a scrap of paper and a PDA
Call it a PAA - Personal Analog Assistant,pocket mod is a great flash app that makes something which is nearly useful. Go there and be inspired.
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Gapminder
"CHALLENGE: Let´s make data on world development understandable, enjoyable and free!"
Gapminder.org
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Word Count
Wordcount.
From the site: "WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is."
Also don't miss: "NEW! WordCount tracks the way we use language. QueryCount tracks the way we use WordCount."
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Iraq War Fatalities
Iraq War Fatalities is a graphic portrayal of the deaths of the invading and occupying forces in Iraq. It draws data from icasualities.org. It is nicely done, lots of additional features leap out as possibilities for extension, such as a timeline scrollbar maybe with a sparkline type barchart across the bottom.
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The Most Important Election of our Lifetime
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime ~ Spot the Difference Quiz Game! ~
It is common knowledge that this is 'the most important election ever' - but can you tell the
difference between the two main candidates?
This quiz is intended to question just how significant the difference between Bush and Kerry really is. I hope that people find it provocative as well as thoughtful. Please follow the link at the end
of the quiz for some more serious examinations of the question.
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Fowardtrack: map your online activism
From the FowardTrack website:
ForwardTrack is a new system created by Eyebeam R&D designed to promote on-line activism. The system tracks and maps the diffusion of email forwards, political calls-to-action, and online petitions. It can trace email forwards, map the impact of blogs, and facilitate web-based sign-ups and social networking. Our goal is to help people understand decentralized networks and see the power of "6 degrees of separation." ForwardTrack technology helps prove that one person can make a difference.
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Rasterbation is good for you
Make massive posters with Rasterbator. You can upload an image using this flash app, which then allows you to decide how many pices of paper you want it printed on. It turns your images into the black and white dotted images that you see in newspapers so that it scales well. You recieve the resulting image in a pdf file. Brilliant.
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Newsmap
Newsmap "is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it." Newsmap is a demonstration of the treemap technology similar to that used in
Smart Money's Market Map. It was made by Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton. All of this technology is no doubt very good for business as hivegroup are keen to show you. Thanks to newsmap for making a more critical application.
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