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Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements


“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”

auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”

“The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes.”


“The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global finance.

We use up-to-date 2.0 trend analysis and data visualization technologies, neural networks, graph theory or quantitative structural linguistics in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.”
Christophe Bruno (2002 – 2008)


HistoFace is a histogram typeface designed for use in the Photoshop “Levels” window.


Murmur Study (2009) is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies





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“These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.

Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com “


Civilization knot.


“… a large-scale outdoor waterscreen/mist projection system, the mirage-like installation glowed with colours and ebullient patterns created in response to the competing and collaborative voices, music and screams of people nearby. “


Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won’t try to tell you how to write – it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

* Monitor environments, record sensors & share realtime data
* Connect together devices, homes, energy meters & the world
* Embed dynamic realtime graphs in your own website or blog
* Route Pachube feeds to other web services & APIs
* See how people use Pachube & ask questions in the forum
* Save favourites, contact other users & share statistics
* Browse by map view or list view
* Search for feeds or browse by tag
* Track environments in RSS or Atom format

“…a large scale experiment on search engine behaviour was staged with more than two billion different web pages. This experiment lasted exactly one year…”


“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.  The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text…”

A wordle of my delicious tags at jhave2

A wordle of my poem stash-blog Thoems at http://www.glia.ca/thoems/

“The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva.”

New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity.


“Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) … uses magnetic resonance signals to track the movement of water molecules in the brain: water diffuses along the length of neural wires, called axons. Scientists can use these diffusion measurements to map the wires, creating a detailed blueprint of the brain’s connectivity.”


“To accurately approach research on a project exploring the progression and cadence of American poet, E.E. Cummings’ 1944 collection, “I X I,” it became clear that one of the few seemingly appropriate ways to “analyze” a poet whose core relation is a belief in love and feeling over thought, would be to create a mode through which I could explore his poetry that would remain true to the poet’s writing.”

How old is the Internet?


I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

“On the Map” (NOTCOT)

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“This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes’ movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out.
What emerges is an intimation of something that is actually an invisible process, namely reading; what remains behind is a trace of the intake of information.”

Sole, R. V., & Cancho, R. F. I. (2001). The small world of human language. Proc. Royal Society London, 268, 2261-2265.


“…a statistically significant property has been reported about the organization of human language. In spite of the huge number of words that can be stored by a human, any word in the lexicon can be reached with fewer than three intermediate words, on average.

…the graph connecting words in language shows the same statistical features as other complex networks. The short distance between words arising from the SW[Small World] structure indicates that language evolution might have involved the selection of a particular arrangement of connections between words.

If the SW features derive from optimal navigation needs… words the main purpose of which is to speed-up navigation must exist… According to our calculations, the 10 most connected words are `and’, `the’, `of ’, `in’, `a’, `to’, `’s’, `with’, `by’ and `is’. These words are characterized by a very low or zero semantic content.”

Chris Jordan — Jet Trails, 2007

“Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.”



“…a macroscopic snapshot of the Internet for two weeks: 1-17 January 2008. ”

“in 2002.[there were]…926,201 IP addresses and 2,000,796 IP links…[In 2008] The graph reflects 4,853,991 observed IPv4 addresses and 5,682,419 IP links (immediately adjacent addresses in a traceroute-like path) of topology data gathered from 13 monitors probing 48,535,339 /24s spread across 235,286 (49.3% were reached) globally routable network prefixes”

ARPANET (the internet) December 1969



“…a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.”

Map of Science

TextArc.org :

“…a visual represention of a text [Alice in Wonderland]—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning.”