Jun
9
2010
links for 2010-06-09
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Kathryn Schulz writes, "As on his radio show, Glass is adept at making you feel like you're hanging out with an old friend. He uses 'um' and 'like' and 'I mean' in a way that manages to come across as thoughtful rather than faltering and that brings to mind Don Delillo's line: 'He speaks your language, American.' He's also more willing than anyone I've ever interviewed to think for a long time before answering. That might be part of why he was able to say so many interesting things on so many diverse, wrongness-related subjects — from David Sedaris, Roland Barthes, and Freud to what happens when journalists get it wrong, why it took him 10 years to stop being incompetent at his job, and why you shouldn't feel up girls in front of their parents."
Jun
3
2010
Jun
2
2010
links for 2010-06-02
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"[NPR's 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me'] is a particularly good example of crowdsourced media, and could actually teach us a few good lessons about participatory projects."
May
13
2010
May
12
2010
links for 2010-05-12
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Sarah Slobin's casual guide to getting started in infographics.
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This utility converts CSV text to JSON text.
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"What follows are instructions for building and installing MySQL 5 on Mac OS X. These instructions should work perfectly on both Tiger and Leopard."
May
11
2010
links for 2010-05-11
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"tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell."
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Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").
May
10
2010
links for 2010-05-10
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Most frequently highlighted book passages by Amazon Kindle users
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Monotype's answer to TypeKit
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Gulf oil spill datasets from NOAA
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Gulf oil spill datasets from the EPA
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"As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users."
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The Guardian's recent take on presenting election results
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The BBC's recent take on presenting election results
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A guide to some of the locations featured in the Neil Gaiman book "American Gods"
May
1
2010
Apr
30
2010
Apr
29
2010
links for 2010-04-29
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"This beginners guide will help to illustrate some of the more common features found in OT fonts and when they should be used."
Apr
28
2010
links for 2010-04-28
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"Currently, Apple's stock is at an all time high. A share today is worth over 40 times its value seven years ago. So, how much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product?"
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"It's dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control … Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable." In General McMaster's view, PowerPoint's worst offense is not a chart like the spaghetti graphic, which was first uncovered by NBC's Richard Engel, but rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict's causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces. "If you divorce war from all of that, it becomes a targeting exercise," General McMaster said.
Apr
23
2010
Apr
20
2010
links for 2010-04-20
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"Transparency Data is a central source for all federal and state campaign contributions made in the last twenty years. Here you can begin your search, find the information you need and then download records of what a candidate has received, what an individual has given, and how much companies and their employees have given."
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Ezra Klein writes, "For better or worse, carrying the Economist is sort of like wearing a shirt that says 'I'm smart and worldly and interested in knowing things about Ghana.' But unlike a shirt saying all that, it actually works to convey that impression. An NPR bag, for its part, is a signal of a particular brand of non-confrontational, college-educated, sightly-crunchy liberalism. Is that a stereotype? Sure. But it's working for the station's merchandise department."
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"0to255 is a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color."
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Nate Piekos writes, "Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now.
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