This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Short story by Robin Sloan (Al Gore’s doppelgänger, dontchaknow) about “recession, attraction, and data visualization”.
Nice streamy visualisations showing movie box office sales over time.
Whizzy Java applet which creates a pretty map of a web page’s structure.
Some beautiful visualizations generated from FAA data of all flights over the USA one day in March.
This is rather fun — It maps out your friends-of-friends-of-friends network from LiveJournal. It takes a long time to run, but the output is nifty.
Nicely done map of the British motorway system in the style of the London Underground map. Not particularly *useful*, but man, is it pretty.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.