{"id":84,"date":"2006-05-23T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/05\/23\/great-stuff\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:13","slug":"great-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/05\/23\/great-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-images\/inline\/goliath.gif\" class=\"inline_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally write posts that are just links to other stuff&#8211;but there two are so damned great I just have to.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a UN sponsored interactive info-graphic called <em>Human Development Trends 2005<\/em>.  It is a stunning piece of work from both a economic and information design perspective.  It is one of the few examples of interactive information I&#8217;ve experienced that truly maximizes the value of showing information over time.  When I first found this I must have spent nearly 2 hours just exploring the charts. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second has nothing to do with design, business, innovation, or economics.  But it might just be the most amazing adventure story ever&#8211;and its all happening right now.  8 years ago a guy decided that he was going to literally walk around the world.  Today he&#8217;s nearly half way there, having started in the Falklands, and traced a path of unbroken steps all the way up South American, across Central America, through the US and Canada, and has recently just crossed the Bering Straight.  All this and a tragic love story to boot.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goliath.mail2web.com\/\">http:\/\/goliath.mail2web.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following him since 2002.  Back in 2003 I was only a couple hundred miles away from him, and I could kick myself for not taking a couple hours to drive up to meet this absolutely amazing individual.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally write posts that are just links to other stuff&#8211;but there two are so damned great I just have to. The first is a UN sponsored interactive info-graphic called Human Development Trends 2005. It is a stunning piece of work from both a economic and information design perspective. It is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-1m","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}