LATE-NIGHT POOL

Saturday, May 29, 2004

15:05 Things we do (5.04)
Family tree I designed for Gladys' Clan DVD, an interactive documentary about three generations of a Caribbean family directed by Marc Schmidt.

Gladys' family tree

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Friday, May 28, 2004

14:52 Meer Mens!
Aldje and Radboud have news:

first echo image of Aldje's baby

Hurray!
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

17:10 On the other hand...
Here's a screenshot from Newsmap, a news portal I now have as the opening page of my browser (following a tip from Robbert Slotman of the Sandberg Instituut).

Newsmap is an alternative, yummy-looking interface to the googlenews aggregator, designed by Marcos Weskamp around the old issue of displaying and organizing the maximum possible amount of information in a limited amount of space. It gets better the more I use it, and I'm especially fond of the way it conveys the inevitable fate of all news, with stories loosing brightness as they get older.

From the Newsmap about page:

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

Great stuff.
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16:25 The creepy fucker
A short New York Times article called Understanding the President and His God reviews the PBS documentary The Jesus Factor (scheduled for rebroadcast on Thursday, May 20th). The film looks into Bush's spiritual conversion and its consequences for world politics and the lives of all of us.
Are we unlucky or what? Of all conversion possibilities! Why couldn't we have a world leader convert to Buddhism instead? What's wrong in wishing for that?

In all my naiveté I used to find a shame that we still had such anachronic, primitive conflicts going on as that of the Middle East - and now here we are, watching that sort of black-or-white, uncompromising, empathy-less mental model spread itself over larger and larger areas of the world.
How sad, really.
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