links for 2007-07-09

• Social Flowers – Send Flowers Through Social Networks
  the sender chooses a recipient from his friends list, then chooses the flowers and pays. There’s no need to know your receipient’s address: social flowers will send them an email requesting it, and the flowers get sent out by local florists
  (tags: socialsoftware flowers facebook)
• Gapminder – About
  Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development.
  (tags: analysis google reference research software statistics tech tools)
• Disney mars colonization movie – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
  an early, infographical-like, episode of Disneyland which aired on December 4, 1957. it discusses the possibility of life on other planets, especially on Mars.
  (tags: animation cartoon design disney documentary futurism visualization history)
• YouTube – How Your Video Game System Can Help Cure Cancer
  Now you can help fight cancer simply by playing video games from the comfort of your own home.
  (tags: cancer stamford sony playstation)
• The Serif – Your daily dose of design inspiration – The Serif
  Tube ticket redesign
  (tags: blog gallery inspiration print tube typography london design)
• IBM’s Data-Visualization Champion
  The upside for businesses? Companies can efficiently tap the much-touted “wisdom of crowds”, both from within and outside of a corporation, if those crowds have the tools to create their own thoughtful data visualizations.
  (tags: aesthetics article businessweek data graphics ibm information visualization wattenberg design)
• Anamorphosis: Google Art
  Is it always going to be about scale?
  (tags: art scale google)
• Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game
  Java app that shows the next move in chess.
  (tags: chess visualization java fun ai algorithm animation artificial)