Jonnie Hallman has created a site that is interesting on a number of levels. First, I love the domain name and the reveling in “seize the day”. Second, his lab is full of beautiful work. Third, he’s build a great Adobe AIR app called DestroyFlickr that really makes Flickr sing. Take a look.

Wordle.net looks like a place to go for some fine word cloud action.

How about drawing in clean on dirt?

Over the past couple weeks I’ve given a brief presentation about the MDL a couple times. I’m tired of slides and wanted to try something new. Inspired by a presentation I saw that used Vuvox Collage, I created a very wide Pages document and converted it to PDF.

Meanwhile, I was invited to the Collage beta. While I’ve not done anything interesting with it yet, Nathaniel has put together a version of our experience going to the Obama rally last week.

I kind of like these long thin scrolls. I had a few complaints, though, about these as a way to convey professional presentations. A bit dizzying, I believe, maybe a bit unsettling without the bounds of traditional slides. I expect I’ll keep exploring this, more with Collage especially.

Amanda Cox does some great work at the NYT, and this latest visualization of how people voted during the Democratic primary is a wonderful example. It almost feels like you are watching folks rearrange chairs in a room.

How about the world for a canvas and a GPS tracker for a pen? Erik Nordenankar thought up this extraordinary idea. Hard to believe? Watch the movie.

UPDATE: Yes, hard to believe. This is a hoax and the artist has admitted as much.

Nice puppeteering!

This looks like fun!

OK, this is big. I’ve mentioned Processing a few times in the past weeks. It’s pretty cool, I just wish I had a reason to use it. Well, this week it seems that John Resig has given us all a birthday present: Processing.js, a version of Processing that runs in JavaScript. This has the potential to supplant Flash, we’ll see. I certainly find Processing itself pretty compelling.

Between this, the coming CSS web fonts, and newer/faster machines, web standards are on the cusp of a significant shift.

A brief, but very nice interview with Brad Bird at Gigaom last month. Among many bits of wisdom: “there are some [things] that only need to be good enough to not break the spell.”