The Mobile Gulf Observatory (MoGO) app turns you and your iPhone into a ‘citizen scientist’ helping track the environmental impact of the BP oil spill, and enable wildlife experts to find and rescue stranded birds, sea turtles and dolphins.
Download the free app from iTunes
via WBUR
This fantastic visualization was created by our good friend, collaborator, developer and go-to guy for all things requiring large brain activity, Robby Macdonell. Check out the Ottawa Senators once-in-a-lifetime activity vs. the New York Islanders concerted blast of Stanley Cup action. Discussion on how he did it here.
I Am Not An Artist is “an animated gif paranoia about nonstop design workers” by Johnny Kelly and Matthew Cooper. We can relate.
via Svärta
Here’s a fascinating article on the U.S. Military’s obsession with powerpoint.
source (go poke it.)
This is the best kind of public art. It creates a common experience for a wide swatch of humanity … and makes them laugh. Check out other work by Chris O’Shea.
We have a huge soft spot for We Feel Fine. It has been collecting and aggregating emotions since 2005 which equals about 12 million feelings. The results are hilarious, heartrending and poignant. It’s as if a big tender net is cast into the air and we get to see what it catches. The We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion is a best of compilation by the site’s creators Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
All is right in the world again. At last there exists a Daniel Johnston themed iPhone game!
