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Month: March, 2008

links for 2008-03-11

Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data – we make money not art (tags: visualization design information data)

links for 2008-03-10

UNdata (tags: statistics data UN reference resources) How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop? « ebin (tags: photoshop photography howto design) Africans to Bono: ‘For God’s sake please stop!’ — The American, A Magazine of Ideas (tags: Africa politics economics government) 63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats | Speckyboy [...]

links for 2008-03-09

Library Garden: Talk Good: Giving Effective Presentations (tags: presentations speaking powerpoint tutorials) Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007 | Typographica (tags: typography design inspiration) VoiceThread – About – Featuring (tags: collaboration multimedia audio) Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com – Use our award winning survey software to conduct your market research. (tags: polls survey [...]

links for 2008-03-07

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Mobiles bridge physical and digital worlds (tags: mobile telephony future)

links for 2008-03-02

imagine it! (tags: creativity imagination) MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining (tags: reality mining)

Competition in schools

At the risk of sounding socialist and anti-free market, I find this ad somewhat unsettling. I saw it on the subway on my way home last night and snapped this quick blurry picture. Why does school always have to be about competition? Does the message suggest that competition is implied in our current market driven [...]

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