Mindful Musings

While surfing the web for some information on my particle system algorithm, I came upon some really interesting websites which are all somehow related to particle systems and the internet.
The first is called the Statistics Toolbox Have you ever wanted to know the Average Online Retail Spending by Gender or the Average web usage for the month of September in the US? This and many other interesting tidbits of information on this link.
The second is called Kartoo. If you have ever seen or used the Touchgraph GoogleBrowser, this is an extension of the system with a VERY interesting way of finding information. If I had to research anything on the internet (seriously 8)) I would definitely use this system. Run a search for your own website of blog or keywords to see some interesting demographics about your own website.
The third is a Waypath If you are into blogging, online discussions and tracking, and generally are interested in knowing what people think about a certain subject in the blogosphere, just go to this website and type in your topic. Very interesting bunch of information. I could spend hours! I am thinking of writing a module for WordPress which would let me import related topics and subjects for my blog topics. I have to think about this one. You could look at the little graph at the bottom of this page to see my Buzz-O-Meter
In other news, particle systems is still kicking my ass. I dont think my physics tuned mind quite grasps the concepts of abstract and extremely simplified mechanical laws being put into convoluted code. But I am going to keep throwing shit at it, something has gotta stick, sometime….