Archive for March, 2006

Quite possibly.

Sure, it’s over-application of web technology circa 1999, and it’s design only a mother could love (the same mother that sends out the family newsletter with at least one typeface for every family member and pet — including each of Uncle Milton’s ant farm ants). But the Bureau of Land Mangement Paria Canyon [...]


Overviews:
Excellent first hand overview, Valerie & Dennis Clark
Photos of Paria Canyon and and Coyote Buttes
Buckskin Gulch overview, with photos and trip report
Paria River and slot canyons overview, with links to photos
Official:
The awesome BLM website for the Paria area
Bureau of Land Management permits for Paria Canyon and Coyote Buttes
More Photos:
South West Trip - Hiking Buckskin Gulch [...]


NASA World Wind is a virtual globe program, akin to Google Earth. But it has different aims, it uses different image and data sets, it’s open source, and it’s paid for purely by American tax dollars. Really, it means that remarkable imagery and data that countless millions (billions?) of tax dollars have paid for [...]


While this diagram mapping American federal discretionary spending is flawed*, it demonstrates how information visualization can be quite useful. It communicates complex ideas simply.
It might be hard to grasp what our great leaders are doing with hundreds of billions of dollars in discretionary spending, but with it glance, it’s easy to see that, gosh, the [...]


Flight

20Mar06

The Economist this week provides insightful analysis on the already legendary Gillette Fusion razor. But yet again, the respected publication is out done by The Onion, in its report on the 5-bladed razor over two years ago. In the “severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance,” which publication would [...]