I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! Information Aesthetics is a blog by Andrew Vande Moere from the University of Sydney that highlights examples of fascinating, illuminating, experimental and just plain gorgeous data visualisations on a vast range of topics. There are maps, of course, and everything from social network visualisations and airline infographics to interactive architecture and “human visualisations” (a video of people dancing to demonstrate protein interactions). The projects range from the practical and political to pure art, but it’s always full of inspiring ideas and plenty of eye candy.

I’ve decided to ditch mephisto blog software and go back to wordpress. I want a fully functionality blog software with proper theme support, lots of plugins and WYSIWIG editor. Mephisto was light weight, but a little too immature for our tastes.

The conversion over to wordpress went OK. Only thing left is to import the comments into the system. We’re using the mandigo theme which fits in with the new ProjectX style.
FYI: If you’re looking to migrate / import into wordpress from mephisto, you’ll need to use the RSS2 importer. But first you’ll need to convert the atom feed to RSS2. (Note it can only handle about 2000 lines at a time) Warning it can only import posts. Comments you’ll have to figure out yourself !

From Scoble’s blog….

(It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to do this)

Ajaxian has just post about Spyjax a tool that can search your browser history. It works by using javascript to check if you have visited a site by analysing CSS colours!

“It only allows a site to test a predefined list of URLs to see if you have visited any of them. It’s like the card game “go fish”, you can’t see the players cards but you can ask them if they have any particular card. Most likely the way this technology would be used is to examine a list of competing URLs.”

I wonder how long spam marketers and blackhat seo’s have been using this technique???

So how to do stop it ???

Turn off javscript (This is bad no more ajax goodness) or in Firefox uncheck the “Remember visited pages” checkbox (This is also a pain as you’ll lose the autosuggestion of all your visited sites.)

Lulu just sent me a link to this great presentation on visual thinking.

Check it out!!!