January 2011
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Jan 31st
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“Just as there’s a balance between simplicity and obscurity, there’s a balance...”
– Less Text, Please: Contemporary Reading Behaviors and Short Formats | I’d Rather Be Writing
Jan 31st
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“As little as possible, as much as necessary.”
– Shrink to Fit « Brain Traffic Blog
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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BBC News - Analysis: Why Egypt matters →
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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xkcd: Consecutive Vowels →
Yes please.
Jan 28th
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Jan 25th
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Brilliant? Gym only makes you pay when you DON’T... →
A fascinating way to encourage attendance. Where else could this be applied? Dance classes?
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Interface design: Touchscreen meets touch-edge -... →
This is an amazing concept phone from a Chinese competition with some really fascinating interaction design ideas and elements.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 16th
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Frank Chimero: Whiteboard Accounting →
viafrank: I’ve been freelancing for about 7 years now. In that time I’ve had my fair share of successes and failures, and I’ve started to figure out what works and what doesn’t. I’ve made a few inventions: odd ways of doing things that seem to work for me and might work for a few other people too. I…
Jan 15th
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“I am capable of much more than I think I am. I am learning that I am not a fixed...”
– Always Think This Way
Jan 12th
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Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off... →
Seriously amazing work. Can’t wait to get back from Australia, buy myself a Kinect, and start teaching myself how to hack it and do things like this with it.
Jan 11th
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Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad. →
More innovation in education with interactive textbooks.
Jan 10th
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Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video... →
I love seeing education doing excellent things with technology.
Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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“Their work suggests that robust growth sustains itself by poising on the edge of...”
– New Rules for the New Economy
Jan 6th
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Postspectus 2010
2010 was a year of landing on my feet. From a standing back tuck. From vagabonding. From half-assed income. From project overload. A retrospective is best done like a montage; in highlights, with a good soundtrack. I’ll let you choose your own soundtrack but for me it will be the Time is Running Out Pandora station. 2009 was the year of vagabonding, of homelessness, of an outcry...
Jan 5th
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“Shouldn’t learning be as easy and effortless as possible? Unfortunately, this...”
– The Educational Benefit Of Ugly Fonts | Wired Science | Wired.com
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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Yet another alternative design for wind farms -... →
Jan 5th