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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The NY Times web site has an interesting article on the seperation anxiety president delegate Obama (he won't be president elect until the electoral college votes him in) might be having about the impending date when he will have to relinquish his cherished BlackBerry. Being an avid mobile communicator myself, ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
It's a nice read and I love that there are outright conflicting viewpoints on the use of frameworks. Ultimately, you have to do what is best for you but this is a good article from people who know what they are doing and their insight is invaluable whether you agree ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Is that Scott McCloud wrote and illustrated a really fun introductory comic book.
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
A nice photoshop template for iPhone mockups. With more and more services being geared toward mobile platforms this could be very useful soon.
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Thursday, August 21st, 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.
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Monday, August 18th, 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 ...
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Monday, August 18th, 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 ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 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 ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 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.
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Saturday, August 16th, 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.
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