Archive for August, 2008

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This could be useful at some point

25, Aug 2008

A nice photoshop template for iPhone mockups. With more and more services being geared toward mobile platforms this could be very useful soon.

Textual visualization

21, Aug 2008

I am a huge fan of data visualization. Here is a nice overview of some interesting textual visualization techniques. Other than tag clouds this rather new to me. Personally, I find this literary organism maps rather aesthetically interesting.

Paradoxes of the Creative Personality

18, Aug 2008

Coming across this article on Psychology Todays web site was a little unsettling for me. PT is usually rather “soft” psychology and I don’t find it very worthwhile but the author of this article is by someone I respect a great deal who was the former chair of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Mihaly [...]

An interesting turn of events

18, Aug 2008

According to the Telegraph, millionaires are seeking to transform the world through purchasing large segments of land and converting them to conservation areas. This might be an incredible example of philanthropy at work. I only hope that they really do commit to this in perpetuity. This reminds me somewhat of the Nature Conservancy’s mission. I [...]

Water Theater

17, Aug 2008

I saw this on the Discovery Channel. It is one of the most stunning examples of the congruence of engineering, design and technology all in the pursuit of a practical purpose: providing clean water for people. The Water Theater is a new approach to desalination that will allow humanity to derive fresh drinking water from [...]

Great example of org design

17, Aug 2008

Leave it to the people at Walt Disney to be pioneers in information design. Here is a Disney org chart from 1943. It captures both teams and process. It’s a very sophisticated bit of information design, in my opinion.

Worse off than mediaval peasants??

16, Aug 2008

One of my personal areas of interest is human potential. It always amazing me how policy, governmental, corporate or otherwise in America always seem to overlook the necessity of time off. Now a study appears to be suggesting that Americans receive less time off than our medieval peers did.

Artist: Ashley Wood

11, Aug 2008

On vacation, I recently read China Mieville’s book The Scar and upon reading some reviews of the book discovered the identity of the cover artist. His name is Ashley Wood and he seems to make some rather impressive dystopian-themed works.

Simply Brilliant

10, Aug 2008

The Orwell Prize has created a blog using Orwell’s own diary entries and are releasing them 70 years late to the day. What a terrific way to redistribute such a historic author’s personal ruminations.

Online Python book

7, Aug 2008

I’ve hacked up my fair share of PHP scripts and have played around with Ruby on Rails but have been really interested in Python lately. Between what appears to be a very clean syntax and the availability of such frameworks such as Django, it seems like it could be a great language for templating and [...]


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