Visual Thesaurus

[macjac]

Take it for a SPIN!

The VISUAL THESAURUS
Online Edition


Developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, Visual Thesaurus is an experiment in language and interface. It is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.

the Guided Tour

It takes a minute to load:
...but It's Worth the Wait!

[Yocona]

Macjac, that is great. I could spend hours there.

[macjac]

I enjoy entering different words and watching them blossom like flowers
well like Dandelions actually! Snapping the Connectors like Elastic Bands
and then Spinning them like Mobiles in all Different Directions
while they present the alternative lexicons before my eyes (and brain)!

...and then clicking on the target meanings that then become the new root
word, only to blossom again into a new Mobile.

ANYWAY...
I just thought it was a COOL Idea
to gather together a few COOL-TOOLS
for the guyz scattered hither & yon in pursuit of Higher Ed.
just to give them ANOTHER Excuse for a Guilt-Free Drop-BY
while doing their assignments.

While they're here to use the COOL-TOOLS
they can Catch to a Few Tunes, & Grab a Quick Beer
whilst Catching-Up on the "Doings" (and DON'T-ings) in the B&G!

That way we get to all stay in touch, rather than drifting apart
from semester to semester.
We can be like getting a Letter From Home
...when the lads need a familiar place to come back to
"where everybody knows your name"

Please FEEL FREE
To Add to Them So We Can ALL Share the RESOURCES

[macjac]

To use Google's CALCULATOR Function;
simply ENTER the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box
and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.

The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions
involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20),
more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1),
units of measure and conversions
(100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories),
and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2).

You can also experiment with other numbering systems,
including hexadecimal and binary.

* ticalc.org *. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[macjac]

MORE FUN with GOOGLE:

Overview
The Google Viewer displays the pages found as a result
of your Google search as a continuous scrolling slide show.
You can view your search results without using your keyboard
or mouse and you can adjust the speed with which the images
move across your screen. Each image of a page's contents is
accompanied by a short "snippet" describing that page.

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[macjac]

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ReferenceDesk.org
The Internet's Best Reference Source!
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[macjac]

Perhaps I'm odd...
...but while some people spend time perusing porn sites...
...I get-off on Educational Sites

HEY! Down in the CHEAPSEATS! Don't knock it 'til you try it!

Is anyone ~ELSE~ interested in

"The VISIBLE HUMAN Project"


Visible Human Viewer

The Visible Human Experience

CrossSections.....Anatomy.....Computer Science in Medicine

.....for more information.....US National Library of Medicine

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[MacHeadCase]

Are there any bloody pictures in there mj? Bloody in the real sense of the word... :ill:

[preki14]

Yeah, me too.

This one's a regular visit for me.

The Mad Cow Guy


I have a fascination with plagues.

[Yocona]

eww, preki, you remind me of a mediocre medical mystery that I read a few years back. The bad guy had a fascination with epidemic-type diseases, and used frozen stuff from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to work his evil. BTW, the 1918 Pandemic is the single deadliest event in recorded human history.

My only fascination with Mad Cow is that it has kept Canadian beef out of the US market for too many months now. Obviously the US surplus has now been used up, because beef prices jumped 25% just this last week. Dollar-wise, 75% of our sales are steaks, so I am holding my breath. Hmm, I seem to do a lot of that as a small business person. . . .

Speaking of grim things, I heard this morning that the death toll in France from August's heat wave is now believed to be almost 15,000 people. That is unfathomable.