2012-02-13

andrewducker: (Default)
2012-02-13 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 13-02-2012

andrewducker: (Humanity)
2012-02-13 07:14 pm

The internet is the modern day circus

See a baby play table tennis!


Watch a dam explode before your very eyes, releasing raging torrents of water and a lot of black oozing mud!


Tremble as Abraham Lincoln fights vampires!


Hear Andy complain that he's spent the whole day alternating between hot and cold, and feeling very glad that he took the day off as he sits at the computer surrounded by an ever-growing pile of tissues!

Ok, I'll spare you the last of those, and merely tell you that I'm grateful to [livejournal.com profile] henriksdal for entertaining me with the first two.
andrewducker: (Illuminati)
2012-02-13 08:26 pm

You all have a special place in my heart - and now you can see where it is!

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] nwhyte for pointing me at Gephi, which is a very spiffy graphing tool. You can use it to make a big map of your FB friends, and how they all connect.

There's a fantastic guide to how to use it here, which I carefully followed my way through, tweaking numbers until I found something that worked well. And I ended up with this:


That's the absolutely tiny 65k version. The version where you can make out people's names is here, because it's 2.5MB and I didn't want to kill your internet by embedding something that large.

Apologies to a few of you for where you ended up - it's a semi-automated process, and while I'm sure (for instance) that [livejournal.com profile] rosamicula will be grumpy at being lumped in with the SF fans in this case I'm afraid you are you who you know :->