Progressive Meandering

I came across perspectv courtesy of Josh Catone on Sitepoint. It’s a very nicely implemented term comparison interface, providing News, Blog and Google search comparisons for up to five terms. Follow this link to open the page below. Let’s take a look:

As you can see, first it shows a graphical comparison of your terms. Below you’re treated to a three live feeds, recent: tweets, blog posts and news items, featuring your search terms. I particularly like the smooth drop down update effect for these feeds, and the inclusion of a pause button:

It cleverly switches graph styles depending on the number of search terms used:

And provides a widget you can embed anywhere you choose:

All in all, a very well considered interface striking a good balance between useability and aesthetics.

I’ve just bumped into this fantastic clip by David Hubert via Abduzeedo.

David writes:

I really wanted to make a video of London while I was there earlier this year but I didn’t had any camcorder, so I took pictures instead. In fact I took more then 3000 pictures and put them all together in less then 2 minutes.

I mixed it with the track ”Harder, better, faster, stronger” from Daft Punk live record ”Alive 2007”

Pump up the volume and enjoy.

London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.

I particularly love the way David has thought “outside the box” and used his digital camera to implement a technique normally restricted to those with video cameras. Remember, the tools aren’t the limitation, what you think you can do with them is!

Bridgette Steffan of INHABITAT writes:

Outside of Rio de Janeiro, on a beautiful little beach with amazing blue water, sits a little house with a flowering roof that shades and protects like a big tropical banana leaf. Designed by Mareines + Patalano, the open air abode is meant to encourage interaction and connection between man and nature. With verandas and open spaces in between rooms and no corridors, the tropical beach house is an ideal place for social gatherings and parties. The open layout also takes advantage of trade winds that blow in from the sea, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling.

Truly stunning. My words can’t possibly do this justice! Enough said.

Mike Chino at INHABITAT writes:

Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 1,500 tons of trash each day, which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW of electricity - enough to power 50,000 homes! Cutting down on landfill waste while generating energy is a pretty win-win proposition, and the plant will also be able to melt down inorganic materials to be reused for other applications, such as in roadbed and heavy construction.

I think it’s important to remember that, while reclaiming as much energy as possible from a process is admirable, this process is NOT a green electricity source. It will always require more energy to vaporise the waste than is recovered by using the “syngas” to drive turbines.

Just found this brilliant wee clip:

KRAAK AND SMAAK squeeze me from FunkySpaceMonkey on Vimeo.

Via: Abduzeedo.