January 2008
The New York Times: 2007 The Year in Pictures →
December 2007
TSA: Bans loose Lithium batteries. →
But, other than obvious laptop based battery issues, as we might expect, it is confusing and perhaps unnecessary depending on… who knows what…
A Lifesaving Checklist - NYTimes →
“A year ago, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published the results of a program that instituted in nearly every intensive care unit in Michigan a simple five-step checklist designed to prevent certain hospital infections. It reminds doctors to make sure, for example, that before putting large intravenous lines into patients, they actually wash their hands and don a sterile gown and...
The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged Blog →
“How we got to this point is an interesting study in reactionary politics, fear-mongering and a disconcerting willingness of the American public to accept almost anything in the name of “security.” Conned and frightened, our nation demands not actual security, but security spectacle. And although a reasonable percentage of passengers, along with most security experts, would concur such theater...
“When everybody knows that something is so, it means that nobody knows nothin’.”
– Andrew Grove “In other words, it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself.” via NYTimes
Astronaut camera gear →
NASA Astronauts use 6 megapixel cameras…Which they shoot out of an optical quality window.
Apple Stores →
“These stores are going to become iconic places that people go to see when they come to New York,” said Mr. Gartenberg, the analyst. “Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall and Apple’s great glass cube on Fifth Avenue.”
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto - Photography... →
Last shots of Bhutto, blast, and aftermath. Warning, gruesome.
Flickr: The Wim Crouwel Pool →
“We’re playing a major crap shoot with our planet.”
– Human genome researcher Craig Ventor on climate change after mentioning he has changed his carbon output slide three times this year as new data shows carbon levels rising. Terrific Charlie Rose interview here.
A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration -... →
Parasite branding? via NYTimes →
“Normally the band, the Death of Jason Brody, slips promotional CD singles between the pages of The Village Voice newspaper and into the racks at large music stores. But lately, band members have been slipping into department stores and putting stickers with logos for trendy designers like Diesel, John Varvatos and 7 for All Mankind on their CDs, which they then slip into the pockets of designer...
As Cars Hit More Animals on Roads, Toll Rises -... →
“The human death toll has risen from 111 in 1995 to around 200 in 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available. Officials say better designed highways would help lower the number. Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, has been a large laboratory for studying measures to prevent such collisions, which had been frequent on a four-lane highway that runs through the park in the heart...
RISDs next president - John Maeda →
On Point: Iraqi Intellectuals in Exile →
“The day-to-day news feed out of Iraq misses one of the country’s saddest, and most important, stories: the exodus of Iraq’s intellectual class. While tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees are heading back, many professionals will never return. And they leave an enormous void - one that hurts the prospects for stability.”
Liberals →
“That all graphic designers, like all creative people, are somehow politically progressive, even if the majority are not Marxist firebrands, is a fallacy perpetuated by liberal and left-wing designers. History actually tells a more complex story – just look at F. T. Marinetti, Paolo Garretto, Fortunato Depero or Ludwig Hohlwein and their respective links to Fascism, assuming, of course, we can...
Tattoo Santa →
Oh my….
Cashing In on Clean Energy: A National Renewable... →
241,000 — the number of additional jobs create nationwide, by 2020, that would result from requiring automakers to meet a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2018. 23,900 — the increase in jobs in the automotive sector alone that would result from the above action. $37 billion — the amount of money consumers would save, in 2020 alone, from the increased MPG...
Watch “At the end of September, the four most (in)famous atheists in the world gathered themselves around a small, granite-top table in the Washington apartment of Christopher Hitchens. After pouring themselves Scotch (Hitchens and Sam Harris) and martinis (Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins), they were miked for sound and spent the next two hours (second hour available here) engaged in a casual...
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg on NYTimes.com →
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg served for 30 years as a university president. He is now president emeritus and university professor at the George Washington University, where he teaches courses on the university presidency in America
jon berry design • broadcast designer →
Seasonal Affective Disorder →
P22 Music Text Composition Generator ( A free... →
Very fun. After you generate one set of letters and set it to play, pick a new instrument and regenerate. The old one will still be playing but layered with the new one. I think this is a flaw but, inadvertently allows you to layer different instruments. Also try typing repeating letters or alternating letters.
Underwater fashion photography →
WatchTrajan is The Movie Font Funny video by Kirby Ferguson. Trajan is a very nice font but, over and over for movie posters and marketing? He is right.
Brijit - 100 words or less →
Fox Porno →
Interactive $5 Note →
Check out the purple 5 on the back.
Wow, plasma TVs suck - Vampire Energy →
That’s it, no more sleep mode for my computers (rare to do anyhow) but the kitchen radio, cordless phones, and toothbrush will probably not be such a worry when I am out of town for a week or less. I may just unplug the DVD player though since it is only used once every two weeks at most.
Paul’s type Ts →
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' →
In pictures: Oscar Niemeyer →
Rich and famous duped into buying puppy mill dogs... →
Even the rich and famous buy puppy mill dogs and don’t even know it - as this Humane Society undercover video shows. In short, never ever ever buy a dog from a pet shop. It surely comes from a puppy mill and the pet shop will tell you whatever you want to hear to sell you a dog. Cruel people who sell dogs in pet shops. Cruel farm like puppy mills. Why be a part of animal cruelty when you can...
Watch Great 17 min. Larry Lessig TED talk. Worth watching.