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Category: tools
The Joy of Stats
The Joy of Stats – Gapminder.org. Hans Rosling on statistics.
Jean-Luc fonts
Atelier Carvalho Bernau pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard, via a typeface. They designed JeanLuc based on Plaque Découpée Universelle, a set of stencil letters from the 1870s.
Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle is a/probably my favorite.
A great primer on digital media
It’s a technical and necessary listening for all who works with audio and video.
Xiph.Org Video Presentations: A Digital Media Primer for Geeks.
The program offers a brief history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and myriad details of low level audio and video characterization and formatting. It’s intended for budding geeks looking to get into video coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about the media they wrangle for work or play.
origami hand glider
from sciencetoymaker.org
good cnn coverage
Good information regarding recovery and road access. cnn.
nytimes map of Port-au-prince, Haiti
A great map from the nytimes. via Reynald on facebook.
imagination
I am always looking for good tools to do slideshows. Imagination so far delivers clean good quality video, I like the fact that it works of sox and ffmpeg; it outputs flv, ogv and vob.
P.S. The ogg video in this post was made with imagination. The Free Software Foundation advocates the merits of ogg and html5, which I support.