Tufte Zen

Zombies March on Austin

"Mairage = 1 Zombie + 1 Zombie" "More Binifits for Zombie Vets in Our Necronomoconomy" "We're here, we're dead, get used to it!" "Zombies Was People Too." Oh, and there was a counter-demonstration of pirates. [Flickr via BB]

US Federal Budget, Visualized

An outstanding visualization of the federal budget, complete with zoomy interface. Budget Graph

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg masters

26-year-old Claudia Mitchell of Maryland has a brand new bionic arm, thanks to DARPA. [engadget]

Applied Bruce-ography

For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm. [Schneier Facts]

Network of Amazon Products

Amaznode uses the "customer who bought this also bought" data from Amazon to generate a graph of product relationships.

Bansky v Disneyland

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California. The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland's security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

[Wooster Collective]

Alert DC

Finally, a competently administered good or service provided by DC Government. The Emergency Management Agency's Alert DC will send you an email, SMS, or page with school closings, weather warnings, and other emergency-management-y events.

Get Your War On, Live!

Wolly Mammoth will be showing the Rude Mechanical's Get Your War On [flash], based on the inspired comic of the same name.

Future-Proof Warning Signs

Ten thousand years from now, the last remaining momument of the U.S. military-industrial complex could well be the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. And it will be marked by an elaborate keep-out sign. Planners building underground storage for radioactive military waste hope to develop a universal warning system that will communicate its message to future societies, regardless of language, custom or even species.

[Wired]