January 2008
23 posts
WatchSony’s projected monster in Tokyo bay. Please, please, please let it still be there when I go in Feb!
via Boing Boing Gadgets
Twitter for business? →
Dennis Howlett nails what I thought as soon as I heard WordPress were doing a lightweight Twitter called Prologue (actually it’s more microblogging, as no sms/email love) inside WordPress. The more widespread I see ‘consumery’ tech like this take off inside companies, the more obvious it becomes - companies are just groups of people - the same tools that groups of people use...
“It works like an apple peeler,” Lichtman said. “Our machine takes a...”
– Mapping the Most Complex Structure in the Universe: Your Brain
Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic... →
“…but the people who make huge money, the George Soroses and Julian...”
– n+1 - interview with a hedge fund manager
The invisible computer revolution →
The invisible computer revolution is a short, but compelling call to arms to build software services for the fast growing cellphone market in non-Western countries; sms updates for health-care workers as continuing education, for example. I often come across anecdotal references to farmers getting sms’ (smsii?) on crop prices in adjoining towns and moving to the best markets, along with...
links for 2008-01-16 →
Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com Although remembered as the mother of modern nursing, Nightingale was an accomplished statistician too. She was particularly innovative in presenting data visually. (tags: visualization Design graphics statistics charts tufte graphs information Nightingale Minard Playfair)
MacWorld predication - Apple becomes an MVNO cell... →
Ok, here’s my guess - Apple announces that they’re providing a branded cellphone service in the US (mvno’d through AT&T). Watch me be totally wrong in about 5 hours :-)
links for 2008-01-13 →
chris jordan photography: Running the Numbers Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of pa (tags: art photography consumption photos environment Design statistics activism)
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YouTube - A Gathering of Elephants Animated movie starring the molded plywood elephants of Charles and Ray Eames. Part of the Eames Office (www.eamesoffice.com) celebration of the Charles Eames centennial (tags: animation art eames eames-office Design charles-eames)
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YouTube - A Gathering of Elephants Animated movie starring the molded plywood elephants of Charles and Ray Eames. Part of the Eames Office (www.eamesoffice.com) celebration of the Charles Eames centennial (tags: animation art eames eames-office Design charles-eames)
links for 2008-01-11 →
This Blog Sits at the: Orphan objects: new markets, new cultures “The gift is a puzzle. My sister is saying, “What happened here? Who was this guy?” And it’s a good challenge because there are lots of particulars.” How decoding the past will become a popular undertaking. (tags: data history identity information tagging metadata found storytelling)
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This Blog Sits at the: Orphan objects: new markets, new cultures “The gift is a puzzle. My sister is saying, “What happened here? Who was this guy?” And it’s a good challenge because there are lots of particulars.” How decoding the past will become a popular undertaking. (tags: data history identity information tagging metadata found storytelling)
links for 2008-01-09 →
Jef Raskin on “Intuitive Interfaces” As an interface designer I am often asked to design a “better” interface to some product. Usually one can be designed such that, in terms of learning time, eventual speed of operation (productivity), decreased error rates, and ease of implementation it is (tags: Design interface productivity software ui usability) FreeRice Answer...
True Films... →
Just saw this Kevin Kelly’s ace documentary reviews ebook linked up on BoingBoing. It’s a PDF in which Kelly (author, ex founder of Wired, CoolTools, etc etc) lists reviews of a bunch of decent documentaries…I micropaid for the PDF a few months ago. The PDF is now a free d/l…powered by sidebar Yahoo ads. Definitely worth a look - I’ve seen maybe 30% of the films he...
“That is because (SAS) is a privately owned company…“We don’t have to...”
– Short profile on SAS’s high-end employee benefits in the Economist