Dedicated artist Paul Lung spends up to 60 hours sketching these photorealistic pencil drawings. A graphic artist from Hong Kong, Paul uses a 0.5mm technical pencil to draw everything from his family and friends to cats and wild animals. His highly d…Read more at www.mymodernmet.com

Solar Transit

Click on through for a couple more images, including a cropped image of the spacecraft and a few other images of the shuttle nearing the Hubble telescope in solar transit.

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Sex explained graphically by pens

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Theory in Colour: Quick Reference Sheet for Designers

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comScore: In 2009 Facebook Doubled In Size

Posted by Bilal Hameed on January 22nd, 2010 12:50 PM Share3 No Comments

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, presented the Zuckerberg Law at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2008. Looking in retrospect, Facebook’s growth has traced the trajectory of his prediction. If the law is to hold in 2010 as well, we would very well see Facebook blast past 220 million user mark by the end of this year. I wont be amused to see this happen, however the one thing that Facebook dearly needs to figure out is a revenue model. Read more at www.allfacebook.com

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The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks (see the maps). It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel.

Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10 per cent of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city. What’s more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city – around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province.Read more at www.neatorama.com

Kim Asendorf from Kaubonschen.com has notified me about the release of the SPAM VISUALIZATION website. It’s a collection of various visualization methods to display the Spam Catalog database.

The application let the user examine multiple attributes of the spam database with different views like: wordScore, quantityGrid or timeTable:

See more at www.datavisualization.ch