www.grokker.com is a search engine that displays the results of your information requests in a very interesting way…

In his excellent blog Semiologic, Denis de Bernard’s recent posting claims that Grokking ‘..is times more powerful that anything Google’s pathetically outperformed search engine will let you do. It deserves the blogosphere’s full attention.’

I agree … Grokking may not be perfect but it’s a step in the right (and for me inevitable) direction, away from linear search results toward a more visually compelling and intuituve data representation.

The Election is over.

When I looked at the new UK political map at the BBC, I couldn’t help noticing something…

Is it just me, or is there a Dragon in Wales - bowing its head and unfurling its wings? Take another look… Read more…

Something I’ve just been trying out…

Here is a Category Map of this website. It uses the WordPress Category Map Plugin. Read more…

(Click photo to enlarge)

Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
News Source: Semiologic.

This is a photo from the Hubble Telescope’s recent 15th Anniversary Series.

From Hubble’s description of the photo :

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust.

Beautiful.