Wednesday, July 29, 2009

MonaLisa in MS Paint

I’m sure many of you must have already seen these video, but this is the first time I saw it and was stunned beyond words. As if creating something so brilliant with a mouse itself is not amazing enough(though I have a feeling the artist used a tablet), the whole thing was done using Microsoft’s much maligned and abused MS Paint.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Google fusion tables: is it from Gapminder?

Quite some time back, I had come across this talk by Hans Rosling at ted.com. Ted is one site, which I frequently visit to listen to great speakers, tech leaders and futuristic ideas. Hans is a Swedish professor, who built a tool to present data in a visual format using multiple dimensions rather than the usual 2 dimensional graphs.