The NY Times has a really brilliant Flash based learning tool to help people understand the election and factors related to it. Among other things it lets you experiment with "what if" scenarios of which states go to which candidates and how the electoral vote numbers add up.
That capability was mentioned on NPR and the tool is apparently getting a massive amount of traffic just for that, but digging deeper it reveals an amazing density of information in a brilliantly simple interface. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/ As someone who has been asked to build these kinds of learning tools, I'm going to have to spend some time with this, not just for following the politics but just to learn from and appreciate the design of it. -Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| The annual ColdFusion User Conference is being held Sat 6/26 - Sun 6/27/04 8am-5pm in the Washington DC Area. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=44 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132018 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
