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I do a lot research in my job, and sometimes I need to narrow down a search for a specific website. As a little exercise, I prepared this little javascript bookmarklet to perform a google search on the site that one is currently visiting.

I found some interesting data on windpower and energy production for Sweden, and prepared this simple chart, listing electrity generation per month, from 2002-2012.

I found this interesting library to export geospatial data from web applications running the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API - js2shapefile - which seems to work very well.

The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic reached a record low for the month of August this year (2012) - with the ice reaching 4.72 million square kilometers. I thought it would be fun to prepare a map over that using the latest available data.

Dietary trends on food supply of animal and vegetable products, by country, presented in a bubble chart. The animated time series shows the trends 1961-2007 using the motion chart gadget from Google, as used by Gapminder. The data was retrieved from FAOSTATS.

Using an Adobe Illustrator Javascript to recreate map symbols of arrows with bearings in a cartography workflow to being GIS data from ESRI ArcGIS into Illustrator.

Some notes about using swatch libraries for cross-hatch fills or hachures in Adobe Illustrator.