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Day December 7, 2006

Swivel – a web2.0 home for statistic junkies

Cute site for addicts of statistics and charts, weird correlations and factoid-addicts. This is a social (user content, community, sharing, rating etc) site where people can either dump their favourite charts from their powerpoint, or can indulge in their love for data points…

Currently it’s a bit hit and miss, but a combination of a good search engine and user ratings should get to a decent balance of relevance, quality and humour. I’ll be watching.

In the meantime it’s like the strapline says:

Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data.
As a preview it’s rough around the edges. May your love for data guide you.

Love indeed.

Card Bawdy. Card is a four letter word.

Glorious site!

I’ve already posted about the origami envelop from the good folk at Flying Pig. Their recent newsletter mentioning the Christmas models for you to cut out and make (ideal for entertaining the kids).

The newsletter also mentioned, tongue in cheek, that the owner, Rob Ives, has “been forced” to remove links to the ‘naughty’ card creations – CardBawdy (as in ‘cardboad-y’, I assume. Heh). You can see the delightfully British ‘bonking bunnies’ above.

It’s a cute piece of marketing since – unsurprisingly – Rob’s the person behind CardBawdy too.

At £2.95 for the rabbits though it’s hardly any more expensive that a posh birthday card, yet way more fun.

Pass me the scissors, please!