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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Stranger Than InfoVis
I had the chance last night to see the new Will Ferrell flick, Stranger Than Fiction. In the film, Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a strictly regimented IRS agent living in Chicago whose life is turned upside-down when he discovers that every event in his life is decided by the pen of an omnipotent author.
To illustrate [...]
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Keeping Score
Produced by the San Francisco Symphony, Keeping Score is a project designed to, show that classical music can speak to everyone and instill a lifelong love of music through the use of pervasive media.
Part of the Keeping Score initiative are interactive flash websites showcasing selected classical masterpieces, and the history and music theory behind them. [...]
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UCLA Student Repeatedly Tasered for Faliure to Produce ID
Breaking news today as University of California, Los Angeles student newspaper The Daily Bruin is reporting that an unidentified student was repeatedly tasered by UCPD officers last night in the schools Powell library when he failed to produce the proper identification during a random ID sweep. According to report, when the student failed to produce [...]
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FedEx Hub Animation
This fantastic animation shows the flight paths of hundreds of FedEx aircraft over the span of two days and elegantly illustrates the brilliance of the hub-processing model of package handling.
[via information aesthetics]
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Chloroflot 2006 Design Salary Survey
Chloroflot.com has just published it’s 2006 Design Salary Survey, in which they asked different types of designers all over the world how much they rake in every year. To my surprise, Hong Kong towers over the rest of the world in times of the kind of living the average designer makes, a whopping $93,607 salary. [...]
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