November 2011
4 posts
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The Euro Crisis
via NYT
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Immigration Explorer
via NYT
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Evolution of Western Dance Music
via www.thomson.co.uk
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7 Stages of Visualization
Ben Fry, Visualizing Data
October 2011
1 post
[ACCEPT] [DECLINE] [DELAY]
[ACCEPT] [DECLINE] [DELAY]
September 2011
3 posts
3 tags
A timeline of Michele Bachmann's rise
via MinnPost
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Degrees of equality - Female graduation rates
via The Economist
Faith within reason
Faith within reason
Hey
August 2011
6 posts
economics bundle
When one is honest about it, macro economics is a giant bundle of lies, confusion, and nonsense. It only works so well because the complexity and scale prevent any one person from seeing through all the horseshit, and therein lies the necessary “trust” that keeps everything rolling. via
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Slow Steady
Human Computer Interactions
1. Humans are erratic. 2. Computers are pedantic. 3. Database software seems almost universally designed to inflict #2 on #1.
democratic results
Wisconsin’s greatest governor, Robert M. La Follette, declared: “We have long rested comfortably in this country upon the assumption that because our form of government was democratic, it was therefore automatically producing democratic results. Now, there is nothing mysteriously potent about the forms and names of democratic institutions that should make them self-operative. Tyranny and...
Coordinates
July 2011
2 posts
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Economics masquerades as a science
Economics masquerades as a science, because most people don’t understand it and it relies heavily on mathematics. However, because no controlled experiments can be run, it is more appropriately labelled as a form of philosophy. When you consider that this philosophy is used to justify policy, it is clear that most of economics is just political rhetoric dressed up as a scientific fact.
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Economists are about as useful as astrologers
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next). ~ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
June 2011
1 post
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an absence of the ideological furniture on which...
his failure to process the fact or incorporate it into his worldview seems to me most likely to reflect an absence of the ideological furniture on which the fact could sit. via The Economist
May 2011
4 posts
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Urban totem
Curious
Birth of a parking lot
Not long ago this fenced-off asphalt was a
Formerly 35
April 2011
1 post
This way
February 2011
7 posts
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
If we do not protect the First Amendment we cannot...
Sen. Rand Paul opposing extension of the PATRIOT Act. via ThinkProgress
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Essentially, this country's like the kids of crack...
Spending $67 billion for a single year of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while screaming insanity over $53 billion over six years for national rail system and the energy independance it helps bring. via Rude Pundit
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Accessible Interfaces - R1
An analog radio is one of most important product for a blind people. In the using a behavior of how people manipulated rather than burying all of interaction in to the product. So adjusting radio to the right station would require a new kind of manipulation rather than simply tuning a knob. ‘R1’ has designed for them to control the radio more intuitively. By using a wheel...
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Luddites
“the Luddites were not thoughtless vandals opposing progress, but artisans concerned to preserve craft standards and appropriate rates of pay” - Lee-Wright
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robo-rainbow
robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo. Rather polished video for an urban art ‘intervention’ hack. Good pacing and build-up to the work’s final output. Via mudlevel on Vimeo
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What Design Can & Can’t Do
Concentric model of a strong brand. Only the inner layers affect the outer, not the other way around. The designer occupies a powerful space, mediating the interface between brands and the context in which they live. Christopher Simmons models for Design’s role in Business via AIGA
January 2011
8 posts
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Know Your Bolt
via Bolt Depot chart via MAKE
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Making of Croissants
I miss Montréal, though this was shot across the Atlantic.
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The more you know ===★
I do love clever typography.
Here vs. There, Now vs. Then and Small-Here vs....
Michal Migurski three principles for interactive via HacksHackers
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Chewy's first day at school
via: makingof.com
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Futuristic roadside convenience.
Dyson HandBlade.
aligns himself both with rebel subculture and with...
The hipster is that person, overlapping with the intentional dropout or the unintentionally declassed individual—the neo-bohemian, the vegan or bicyclist or skatepunk, the would-be blue-collar or postracial twentysomething, the starving artist or graduate student—who in fact aligns himself both with rebel subculture and with the dominant class, and thus opens up a poisonous conduit between the...
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A new Rainbow Warrior
via: aestheticsofjoy.com
December 2010
17 posts
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Andrew
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Freedom
Here in America we like our freedoms, but the freedom to restrict freedom is one of the most valued. Via reddit
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I'm starting to really like the smell of cocaine.
“I’m starting to really like the smell of cocaine.” (One police dog to another.)Published in The New Yorker 11/29/2004 by Matthew Diffee The New Yorker
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Christ & Christians
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~ Gandhi
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Hoy por ti, mañana por mi
Latin American iodiom for helping others. Translates as “today you, tomorrow me”.
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Clever CAPTCHA
clever Adafruit’s Resistor CAPTCHA is one of the most clever (& useful) web tests against online spam bots.
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Wikileaks Mapped
Spiegel Online has a great map of the latest WikiLeaks releases illustrating primary areas of interest from 1966 to 2010.
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Glide 2
Beautifully mesmerizing, this short high-speed no action clip is great and will undoubtedly inspire a flood of similar efforts. I’m looking at my own Canon to test the possibilities.
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Ukulele Lost
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Pecora Investigation
“Legal chicanery and pitch darkness were the banker’s stoutest allies.”
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BuildingWhat
http://buildingwhat.org
Amazing RC Flight around New York City
