Monthly Archives: May 2007
links for 2007-05-25
Law Enforcement Equipment – Public Safety Equipment – Law Enforcement Uniforms : Galls Galls is a great place for all sorts of things you didn’t know you were allowed to buy. You haven’t even begun to mine the cool things they have here. (tags: shopping police fire survival gadgets) Medill offers journalism scholarships to programmer/developers [...]
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Monoculture video
This about sums up the problem, the prediction and the solution.
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Books: Deep Survival
I got this book from Dr. Mookles on my recent trip to South Carolina and I stormed through it in a day and a half. It’s a great read, a combination of thrilling stories and pop neuroscience. The ambitious subject of the book is in the subtitle, “Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”. It begins [...]
links for 2007-05-23
loose wire blog: A Directory of Visualizing Tools Treemap centric list of some visualizations of data. The treemap is a great way of presenting drilldown data. (tags: treemap visualization tools list visualisation) AntiLeech – Make sploggers work for you AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set [...]
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Turn Ads into Art with AddArt
Another great idea from the folks at Eyebeam. Take the idea of one of the most popular extensions for Firefox, AdBlock, but remix it to display art placeholders instead of blank space. Instead of crappy banners, Fox news gets an eagle flying with an American Flag! Now, this isn’t a final product – it’s still [...]
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links for 2007-05-22
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design 1: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures 2: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to interface latency 3: The usability of an interface is inversely geometrically proportional to its cognit (tags: ui usability DESIGN GUI interaction) Wubi – The Easiest Way to Linux Wubi [...]
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The PADI Open Water Certification Video is Cheesey and Boring
Good lord. If SCUBA were this much fun everyone would fall asleep underwater and drown. I can only hope that this is all worth it. edit: Oh was it ever worth it.
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New Photos Page
In the new site, I wanted to still show my Flickr photos, but I don’t want to clutter up everything with yet another slow loading photo sidebar. So for now, I’ve got a Flickr slideshow of latest photos set up on a Photos page. You can see the Photos page up there as one of [...]
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links for 2007-05-19
Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection Learn a foriegn language as a podcast! (tags: mp3 podcast language) Credit Card & Cash Carrying Paper Wallet from iPaperCraft.com Awesome. Upload images or type in text. Generates a printable pdf that is your new wallet. Super sweet. (tags: wallet diy generator PDF papercraft projects)
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Road trip to the Kentucky Creation Museum