Articles
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The Wal-Mart Plague
January 7, 2009
I saw this first on Gizmodo, but I think it should be mandatory viewing for everyone in the entire flippin’ world:
http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
Watch as the Green Plague of Mediocrity spreads from its roots in the heartland, slowly at first and then with exponential virulence…
On a broader, non-scary-as-hell note: this was my first visit to flowingdata, and it’s full of interesting stuff with a design sense informed by Tufte. Here is a tidbit to whet your interest. I also liked his “5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year” article.
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Stop-Motion meets Lego Millenium Falcon
December 22, 2008
OK, so I’m a geek… but this project pushes several of my geeky buttons simultaneously. No description can do it justice, you have to watch the clip.
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An astute observation
December 18, 2008
Found on Valleywag.com:
I take offense to calling Google an an “overgrown advertising agency”. It’s as crass a generalization as calling the US Government the Military Industrial Complex human resources office.
oh wait…the latter is not a crass generalization, it’s the truth.
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Why is my DSL so slooooooow?
December 11, 2008
Read moreOur house is a bit far from the switch, so the speed’s never been great, but lately it’s really bad:
http://www.dslreports.com/im/62755719/8689.png
] Curiously, Speakeasy.net’s own speed test gives very different results: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
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Your Tax Dollars
December 2, 2008