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Night & Day: New York City Population
Submitted by Ray on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 23:54This great map shows how the population of New York City (well sort of, as it doesn't show all of NYC) changes from day to night.
hat tip Gizmodo
How Do You Map the Internet?
Submitted by Ray on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 00:55Kevin Kelly (wikipedia) was curious about how people viewed the internet and their place in it, so he started the Internet Mapping Project. On June 1, 2009 he released the initial results (which can be seen below). Several days later Mara Vanina Oses, Professor of Media at the University of Buenos Aires, posted a preliminary review (pdf) of the data.
This is a subject previously tackled at xkcd
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be sure to check out Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools.
hat tip boing boing
