Patchwork nation

I am really impressed on how this site conveys a ton on information visually.

Also seems like a fairly nonpartisan analysis of voting blocks... our patchwork nation. A tad more nuanced than the standard red state / blue states thing.

Tracking delegates

Plenty of nifty delegate counters/trackers out there. There is USA Today's circle dominated version, the NY Times table approach, or CNN's slider-o-rama.

Mildly disturbing that each one has different current counts - one would have thought we would have nailed this voting thing down by now. Well, except in Florida, not sure they will ever get it figured out.

Social media in politics

The web 2.o angle on Hillary vs. Barack

Social media in corporations

This was handy. The Social Media Workshop has just a ton of presentations offering different insights into business use of.. you guessed it... social media :)

Some pretty good stuff here.

Hubris

Old hubris, but hubris none the less....

Progressive

Google Sky

Probably my least favorite Google offering to date - Google Sky. I like how they cleverly carried forward some of the Google Maps navigation concepts to very different content, but slower and clunkier than what we usually get from this crew.

Better web development

It is worth at least skimming this article summarizing 10 handy sites to improve your web development.

I have always been an Alertbox fan. Now, a consistent follower of all the guidance they provide... not so much.

Graphic movies

I try to post examples I come across where graphics are used creatively to convey concepts (like the baseball map).

While Minard's work remains the king of the hill for me, this movie one is pretty cool.

No Street View for you!

Fort Sam Houston was available on the street view of Google Maps. The Pentagon complained. Google removed. Not sure I completely understand why a 100% publicly available line of sight had to be expunged - particularly since you can get this off the Fort's website - but no one asked :)

Sports conference meltdowns

Playoffs?? Practice?? Bobby Knight. Nice recap of some of past high energy moments in sports press conferences.

Gary Gygax 1938-2008

Thanks to this man I stayed up WAY to late with several like minded friends during high school summer vacations. Thanks Gary.

Top ten websites you never heard of....

... actually, I expect you have heard of a couple of these, but still a nice list from Fast Company.

Websites in 1996... oh my

Take a look back at what the state of the art was for websites in 1996. Does not seem all that long ago... until you view a few of these beauties.

Nanotechnology

Pretty cool video on some of the potential of nanotechnology

A history of evil

Not sure exactly why Elvis is part of the chain of evil shown here (now, Yanni, that WOULD speak to me), but a clever little animation....

Web / Desktop blurrage

Google Gears, Prism, Silverlight, and now AIR from Adobe. The blurring of the web verses the desktop continues. Widgets, gadgets, portlets, applettes... kinda boggles my mind.

I am hopeful the most approachable solution (e.g. the one that lets the broadest audience use and understand) wins the day, but no clue where that will emerge from.

The market at work though. A good thing.

Mashing up Facebook and MySpace

Have not used it much, but came across Sociagami - a tool to blend your Facebook and MySpace profiles. Seems to be at least moderately useful.

And Pat, your were right, my enthusiasm has already ebbed for marumushi.com's newsmap

Career changing cartoons

Apparently, some management does not hold Dilbert in high regard and will even fire the poor soul who posts the wrong one on a bulletin board.

In order to support the free market, I feel it is important to note the while Dilbert is a very reliable source of career-ending material, other options exist. Came across this fine site with a the ever popular "Crap boss" category.

Enjoy - but don't blame me.

Vista and XP

Good read on the whole why people hate Vista and want to keep XP

I lack the passion of many on this topic, but it is interesting to listen to those who do have strong feelings. There is probably some Democratic primary parallel here ("Vista can only win caucus states - it is sooooooo unfair" or something like that) , but I can't seem to frame up a good one.

Keeping up on the news

I keep trying to find the easiest way to complete a quick scan of news articles. iGoogle, Feedburner, Digg, and Google News Alerts all have their positives... but I am laaaaaaaazy and I want it reeeeeeeeeal easy.

Since I am easy distracted by shiny objects and favor graphical solutions to complex problems, I think I might have found a keeper... marumushi.com's newsmap.

Thanks to Cheryl for sharing.