Links for 13-03-09

279 Spore skeletons
Using the Spore API and Processing to draw Spore creature skeletons

Eclipse | EcoArtTech
Online artwork that alters images of US National Parks based on the current air pollution. Nice idea though the image corruption could be more interesting

Guardian API Maps
Cute geocoder for Guardian articles, developed by Stamen...

ContentTagger
...and a prototype article tagger built on the new Guardian Open Platform which uses Freebase for lookup and disambiguation. The problem with both of these is that there's no motivation, apart from the goodness of their hearts, for people to tag.

Sinatra
Very lightweight Ruby web framework...

Heroku
...and Rails hosting in the cloud

Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com
"Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power?"

About that Vanity Fair article
Good rebuff from an Icelander pointing out the more fictional parts of that Vanity Fair article.

Queen’s student gives twitterers ‘new voice’
A hacked radio that "...allows fans to listen to Twitter messages posted on the website in real time so they can keep up to date with friends, celebrities and even complete strangers. Mark uses an old fashioned radio to receive the tweets..."

More at http://delicious.com/tristanf