Two Cool Websites

http://tools.google.com/gapminder

The high information density here just blows me away. Click the ‘Play’ button to see the data progress over the years. The radius of a circle is by default proportional to the population of the country, although you can change that indicator. You can also change the x- and y- variables. I’m very impressed.

http://memory.loc.gov - The American Memory section of the Library of Congress. You can go here - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html - for the online collection of 164,000 photographs shot by New Deal photographers during the Great Depression. This includes 1600 color photographs:

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34100/1a34135v.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a35000/1a35000/1a35022v.jpg

It’s very strange looking at color photos from that time period; something I’m not used to seeing. I enjoyed seeing pictures of my grandparents’ generation in color – very cool.