Phasor Burn

Looks like Delusional Calgaria (read my previous post on this for background) got bit by the political correctness goon squad in the form of two mental health groups in Nova Scotia. Oy. A bit missing the point, weren’t they?

The domain delusionalcalgaria.com now redirects to a shorter and less fun name, calgaria.com, and the site has also had the word ‘delusional’ excised from whence it used to be.

I’m more than a bit tired of political correctness. I would have thought that it was winding down, not as commonly overdone these days . . . I guess not. What’s wrong with calling someone mentally retarded if they are indeed, mentally retarded? Or a cripple if they are missing the full use of a limb, etc. Call it like it is, move on, nothing to see here. Stop making such a big ruckus over nothing.

P.S. It seems there are some letters to the editor of a Nova Scota paper that are refuting the Delusional Calgaria’s site claim that one can make a decent living in N.S. Apparently they say the pay is lower, taxes higher, gas taxes higher, etc out their way than it is in Calgary. Not surprised, thought that 15% HST (or whatever it is these days) was borderline insane myself.

You may remember the Internet Mapping Project

That was all fun and neat and oh wow back in 1998. The project continues to this day but the maps have so much information on them now that they look not unlike a big sponge-blob-thing.

Today I stumbled upon a recent article about Infosthetics, where graphical representation of data is purpose-built to match the type of data involved.

Scientific Papers and their interrelated citations of each other :

Words in a collection of poems and their relations based on letter-to-number frequency values and order of sequence in each poem. :

Check out the article for more examples and an interview with the author of the Infosthetics Blog for more info on this nifty subject.

Stumbled across this today :

I’m a customer of Amazon.com — at Zooomr we use their S3 and EC2 service. […] Lots of start ups use the S3 and EC2 service […]

So, is this why Zooomr’s so slow? Either a direct processor/bandwidth constraint from inside the EC2/S3 stuff or perhaps because there is additional latency due to making an additional round trip across the internet on their back end before serving up the photos you wanted.

Hoping they can make some speed increases after Mark III comes out. That’s about the only thing holding me back from moving to Zooomr from Flickr these days.

Oldies but goodies . . .

iTunes Links : Connections, The Day the Universe Changed

Old-Skool Links : Connections, The Day the Universe Changed

Ok, I’m done with the Lene Alexandra hypnotic boob videos now. I’ll try and cut back on all the other videos too and produce some bile/spew instead for a while Like old days.