Same same, but different

How comes that certain ideas or projects stick in our head, whereas others just vanish the minute we hear about them? That certain phrases and proverbs rest with us, whereas others are being forgotten soon after we’ve heard them? This book shows how you can make your ideas better “stick” – and it does it well!

Nice examples of graphics using shadows to get a more 3D effect.

Nice little app that enables not only taking screenshots, but, which really makes it interesting, permits to draw directly on the screenshots (notes, arrows etc.), to store it for further use and, really slick, can send it over to a website, from where you can use the URL to insert it into forum threads etc.

Just ype in one of your favorite groups/singers, and then you can hear for hours music of a similar style. Here and here.

That’s somewhat a cartogram styled view of statistics. Interesting. But, as one can “distort” a map not only by exploding/imploding countries, but as well as turning the countries to rounds or squares, this is a nice and quick way to display statistical information as well relative to its size. Cool.

Wow, impressive way of displaying geographic, moving data in this BBC report.

Smart Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:

• Super Scroll makes your scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster and more comfortable. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
• Grab Scroll gives you a tool to easily move (and “throw”!) any window’s contents.