Recent photos of the former President of the Council of State of Cuba, Fidel Casto, show how the 83 year-old has somehow morphed into your Uncle Morty who spends most of his day sitting at a booth at Denny’s in his tracksuit complaining to the waitress about how salty the eggs are.
Hear those sirens the other night? Check out this new crime map of San Francisco to get comprehensive crime data visualizations of the city. Using geographical data from the OpenStreetMap project and the City of San Francisco’s newly-launched clearinghouse for city government dat, a DataSF, the map lets you browse crime by type, time and geography. Along with a 510-friendly map too, you should check out more great data visualization project from Stamen Design.
This weekend New York and New Jersey beaches should see the best surfing conditions in years. Thanks to Hurricane Bill, surfers should see 8-12ft swells. Check out some photos of the Jersey swells.
There was a cool analysis of banknote designs in The Atlantic recently with a link to design consultant Richard Smith’s Dollar ReDe$ign Project, an entire blog and contest to redesign and rebrand U.S. Money. While Smith chose Kyle R Thompson’s design as the overall winner, highlights for me were designs from Mikael Tarkela, Nicholas Friend, Michael Tyznik, Nate Castiglione. Also, don’t miss Matt Dent’s winning design for the new British Sterling coins that were released this year. They’re probably the best looking coins on the planet.
The New York Times has a nice interactive graphic that displays information from The American Time Use Survey which asks thousands of Americans to recall how they spent their time in 2008. Not surprisingly, the unemployed get an hour more of sleep each day than the employed and they spend a lot more time keeping the house tidy than people with jobs too. Read the full article.