links for 2007-03-09

Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before

World statistics visualised as relative maps.

(tags: statistics map cartography anthropology world geography visualization chart data community)
Tennyson – Charge of the Light Brigade

Thomas Edison sent his agents round to the Poet Laureate’s home to record his voice on wax cylinders in 1890.

(tags: poetry tennyson light brigade wax cylinders edison recording 1890)
Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

The Busy Beaver function (about halfway down) is fascinating.

(tags: math numbers mathematics computation turing computable noncomputable halting)

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