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astarrymist Happy birthday. I'm embarrassed that it took LiveJournal's persistent urgings to get me back to reading your honest and grateful self-revelations, but I'm glad to be able to cath up. Thanks so much for remaining my friend.!
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World Health Care Spending - Weave Visualization
In his July 3 program, Bill Moyers used a Guardian Data Blog visualization of World Health Care Spending by Country to explain some comparative facts about the way the US finances health care compared to the way other countries do it. I thought I'd put the Guardian data into Weave to see how quickly the rprocess would go, and it went quite fast. ( Read more... ) -
"All my Relations" vs. "Our Father"
My Friend Lizzie Cornish recently posted the Lakota prayer "Mitakuye Oyasin" ("All My Relations") on her Facebook page, with the comment that it beats the hell out of the Lord's Prayer. I have to confess that the Native American prayer is more universal in its message than the one Jesus is said to have recommended to his followers I think they ( Read more... ) -
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In the good old days, years came in strudy Scottish families
The McMilvies and their strudy cousins the McSilvies.
MCMLVIII
MCMXLVIII
Back then we never thought we'd get to the hummable year "MM"
Still less the egotistical years "MMi! MMii! MMiii!"
Now we're in the nostalgic Tom Mix years
Longing for the strong silent figure whose vacant equestrian statue
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Eggs from the 1919 Book of Knowledge
I was looking through my Dad's 1919 copy of the Book of Knowledge for public domain pictures and ran into this remarkable color illustration:
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Four Trillion Dollars Worth of War?
The negotiations on raising the US debt ceiling are reputedly settling on the prospect of cutting four trillion dollars from the US economy, and the one thing both sides agree on is that "entitlements" must bear the brunt of that cutting. Four trillion dollars is an inconceivable amount of money, and intuitively we understand that taking so much ( Read more... ) -
Weave Visualization Software Released
The visualization platform Weave Version 1.0 Beta was released this month by the Open Indicators Consortium and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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