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Required Reading for Interactive Designers

June 14, 2010 – 6:49 pm

We all know how good industrial design distinguishes products and drives success. Well if you’re an interactive designer, it doesn’t matter if you’re in marketing or product design, understanding the system you’re designing for and how it interacts with the other systems and channels surrounding it is critical. In order to improve experiences, the entire…

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Big Pelf

June 8, 2010 – 6:49 pm

Big Pelf, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.

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Underwater Base Jumping

June 8, 2010 – 1:18 pm

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

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Why I Like Baseball

June 4, 2010 – 1:02 pm

From a great piece by Patrick Flood:
But that’s life, really. Things often don’t work out the way they’re supposed to. You mess up, people around you mess up, the universe conspires against you through chance and randomness. Being a human being is often about dealing with failure, both your own and other’s. Sometimes Ramon Martinez…

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Projected Oil Flow Up Atlantic Coast

June 3, 2010 – 5:06 pm

Via Capital Climate:
A study released today by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that oil spreading from the massive BP gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to move around Florida, along the southeast U.S. coast, and into the western Atlantic.
Getting dangerously close to Jersey…

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Study: The Problem With Mass Adoption of EVs in China

June 1, 2010 – 10:07 am

From Autoblog:

This study, conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory and China’s Tsinghua University, specifically focuses on China and concludes that mass EV adoption could lead to tremendously higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide due to the country’s widespread use of coal as a power source.
Here’s the skinny from the study:
China currently…

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Loving Joe Petruccio’s Mets Game Illustrations

June 1, 2010 – 9:34 am

From his Mets Journal:

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Truly Terrifying

May 29, 2010 – 8:00 am

Update:
Take this with the usual grain-of-salt that comes with reading commenters’ thoughts, but I found this gem from a comment on a PBS article about how the government and BP have vastly underestimated the flow of oil:
…there were at least two leaks – one “set” of leaks from the well head, the other from the…

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Chinese Influence Over N. Korea (Or Lack Thereof)

May 27, 2010 – 2:23 pm

Re: the tragic sinking of a South Korean Naval Ship, a good read (as always) from Fareed Zakaria on CNN:
But here’s the dilemma. If China is going to play a larger role in the region, in Asia, what does it say when the country they have the maximum influence on — they have really one…

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Coney Island Chair

May 25, 2010 – 9:48 am

Coney Island Chair by Uhuru Design of Brooklyn

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