Instead of helping users close their eyes and ears, Twitter needs to help users kick people out of their cocktail parties.

To stay under a 2 degree celsius global warming increase, we can pour about 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies are already planning on releasing 2795 gigatons from their proven reserves. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

Hopefully the new models are not just continuing a 20-year trend of underestimating the impacts of global warming. Like melting arctic ice.

...is where I go to get the latest space news. Just kidding. I go to the Bad Astronomer, who posted a color 360 panorama two days ago: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/09/first-color-360-degree-panorama-from-curiosity/ C'mon Slashot, you can do better than this.

Here's the event link to Fraser's hangout: http://goo.gl/a5t4O

In other news, Hansen's 30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on

Article types
Data & View Specification: Visualize data by choosing visual encodings. Filter out data to focus on relevant Items. Sort Items to expose patterns. Derive values or models from source data.
View Manipulation: Select items to highlight, filter, or manipulate them. Navigate to examine high-level patterns and low-level detail. Coordinate views for linked, multi-dimensional exploration. Organize multiple windows and workspaces.
Process & Provenance: Record analysis histories for revisitation,, review and sharing. Annotate patterns to document findings. Share views and annotations to enable collaboration. Guide users through analysis tasks or stories.


Many Eyes types
See relationships among data points: Scatterplot. Matrix Chart. Network Diagram.
Compare a set of values: Bar Chart. Block Histogram. Bubble Chart. Track rises and falls over time: Line Graph. Stack Graph. Stack Graph for Categories.
See the parts of a whole: Pie Chart. Treemap. Treemap for Comparisons.
Analyze a text: Word Tree. Tag Cloud. Phrase Net. Word Cloud Generator.
See the world: Ottawa Neighbourhood Map. US County Map. World Map. Massachusetts Map. New Jersey Map.

Article types: Many Eyes types: See relationships among data points Scatterplot Matrix Chart Network Diagram Compare a set of values Bar Chart Block Histogram Bubble Chart Track rises and falls over time Line Graph Stack Graph Stack Graph for Categories See the parts of a whole Pie Chart Treemap Treemap for Comparisons Analyze a text Word Tree Tag Cloud Phrase Net Word Cloud Generator See the world Ottawa Neighbourhood Map US County Map World Map Massachusetts Map New Jersey Map

The logical pattern is easier to see in this search table. The most frequent English letters are higher in the table.

Try http://www.livestream.com/occupywallstnyc

The summary links to a reply of a critique of a 2009 paper. The original paper (with brain imaging goodness) can be found here.

Pittsburgh is one of the few American cities to be spelled with an h at the end of a burg suffix. While briefly named "Pittsburg" from 1890 to 1911 following a declaration by the United States Board on Geographic Names, the "Pittsburgh" spelling was officially restored after a public campaign by the citizens of the city.

It is being done.
180: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_Dome_.2F_OMNIMAX
motion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_D-BOX_motion-enhanced_cinemas
180, motion, scent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin'_Over_California

How many active space exploration missions are there? One or two? Over a dozen. Studying Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Vesta, and on the way to Pluto.
Here's a map of them all.

It also o takes an extra click to switch accounts now.