Things that have come rushing from my pen as if it were a firehose, and as if the words were water
Maps
Open data and open-source tools combine to make a detailed model of Iceland’s newest land
Data
Looking at the seven-day rolling rate of new cases per 100,000 population in Iceland and the United Kingdom
Maps
In a talk I gave to LÍSA, the Icelandic association for geographic information, I argue that we need to think about maps as software now
Blog
How do traditional paper maps compare to today’s digital maps?
Blog
The wholesale price of a .org domain could have risen 10% a year since 2003, increasing from $6 then to over $27 now. But in reality the price has risen by an average of only 3% annually. Now price caps have been lifted, what will happen next?
Maps
What impact would the Fat Man atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, have on modern-day Reykjavík?
Visualisations
The BBC’s Sky at Night programme said our nearest neighbour is Mars but one viewer disagreed. Was he right? Let’s find the answer using Python and R
Blog
2007—2022
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Concise notes on the little things I’ve learnt along the way
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2022
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Over the sea and far away
Argentina 2007
Back home, being kept company by a certain Mr. Jet Lag, I write a mini-review of my time in Argentina
Argentina 2007
Of the great arts one learns during one’s student years — idling, Jedi, drinking — idling is the most useful. I put it to good use in Río Gallegos
Argentina 2007
Friday night in Ushuaia, Argentina. Five travellers go in search of the nightlife in Ushuaia, and end up somewhere … shady
Argentina 2007
As a child I imagined Tierra del Fuego to be filled with volcanoes. It’s not. Here’s a brief glance at that most southerly part of Patagonia
Travelogue
2005—2007
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A podcast mostly about the Web
North Atlantic Radio
With three-dimensional printing on the cusp of going mainstream, how will it affect the way we shop, build parts, and make films?
North Atlantic Radio
Brian talks about his new book, Designing with Data
North Atlantic Radio
Brian talks to Drew Neil about the joys of collective nouns
North Atlantic Radio
Brian talks about Luke Wroblewski’s book, Web Forms Design: Filling in the Blanks
North Atlantic Radio
2009—2010
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