“In groups where the conversation was more evenly distributed, where you had better participation — and more equal participation among all of the group members — the groups were more collectively intelligent,”
This is not a bunch of counties and a big city when it comes to transportation, growth, and planning issues!
I did not even know this council existed and I have lived in the region for 4 years and paid taxes as a home owner too.
Poor regional transit connections has been one of my peeves in the MidAtlantic. The connections between two big cities, Baltimore and Washington DC, is horrible! There needs to be a simple, fast service from one edge of Baltimore (Near Towson) to DC central and over to Virginia with only stops at downtowns, BWI Airport, a midway point, and maybe National Airport. With local mass transit feeding off this “spine”.
“Timothy Whelan will be closing his photography bookstore in Rockport, Me., on Oct. 2. The bookstore, Timothy Whelan Photography Fine Photographic Prints and Books, is known as one of the finest of its kind in the United States. Mr. Whelan discussed photographers, books and the economic difficulties that small bookstores face…”
Another nice overview of all that is messed up with books on the iPad and some other readers.
Missing from the iPad: ability to have ragged text - insane this is missing from Apple too. Lack of good screen fonts and ability of publisher/author/designer to choose the font or fonts that will be used. The overuse of kitsch stuff (pages, etc.) to make it look like a paper book.
I posted a link to an alternative reader on this blog a few months ago that eliminated all of these issues. Alas, I have forgotten its name and could not find it after a quick search. But it was nice and simple!
This feature is pretty cool but, I found it less useful than it might seem. It’s one of those brilliant ideas that just had no use in the end. But it took Google 6 years to have the option to turn it off. That is too long for an update on a feature that should have been there from the start.
$500,000 over five years.
I think this is the first graphic design or related fields recipient ever. A pretty good choice.
Interesting. Looks like it might be ROKU versus Google or Apple for internet TV. I have a ROKU and, it is nice and simple for Netflix and a few other services. But most of the channels are crud. Kind of like early cable.
With Hulu on it, it is a whole other world.
In general, most professional graphic designers will not use Arial preferring Helvetica (usually numbered version), Univers, Frutiger (numbered version), Syntax, Thesis, Myriad, Interstate, or many other better designed fonts. But the ubiquity and mindless overuse of Arial forces many to use it in pre-existing documents and web sites. Arial, in a way, has become the Helvetica of the early 21st century. Only not as well drawn as these other exceptional types.
