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No, that's not the start of a nuclear war. It's something much more friendly: a visualization of Facebook friend requests zooming around the globe. It's part of a three minute video produced by Palantir, a Java-powered Facebook Hackathon project that "visualizes all the data Facebook receives."

<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/friendrequets.png" title="screenshot of Facebook visualization video" alt="visualization" />

At the start of the video, the narrator mentions that they're using the JME framework. That's the open source jMonkey Framework, a "high performance scene graph based graphics API."

Via TechCrunch.

I'm honored, excited and now I'm prepared.

I just finished writing up some notes for tonight when I'll be one of four guest speakers talking to Fred Stutzman's Technologies of Friendship class at UNC. Here's Fred's reminder post:

Reminder: Guest Lectures on Work, Organization and Action.