Absolutely beautiful personal data visualizations are now available to view in Feltron’s 2009 Annual Report. Don’t forget to buy a copy. Someone tell Mulvey his designer-crush just turned a new page (literally).

Objectivity & Self Awareness: Assess yourself and your work, and view yourself through the eyes of others with a realistic understanding of your capabilities.

Seems simple enough but so many people I come across not only can’t do this for their own aesthetic visual design work, they can’t be objective with themselves in regard to their other non-design skills.

People have always remarked that I’m extremely critical about myself and my work – almost to the point that I’m unrealistic on the other end of the spectrum. But I think I have to be. There’s so much great design out there and so many challenges that would benefit form sound design thinking that by reminding myself there’s so much more ground to cover I keep hungry. I provide order to the gamut of bad-to-great design by placing myself in the spectrum and trying to understand what separates my work from better design. And it’s that honesty with myself I try to maintain since, for me, its undeniably linked to being objective and self-aware.

Mom, me, Liz, Frank & Matt.

Your personality type is ENTJ.
Extraverted (E) 64%. Introverted (I) 36%.
Intuitive (N) 73%. Sensing (S) 27%.
Thinking (T) 60%. Feeling (F) 40%.
Judging (J) 55%. Perceiving (P) 45%.

Links
Great info on all the the types!
Excellent explanation of what the letters mean
Descriptions of the various personality types
Career information based on your type

Lookout! He’s Crazy, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.

We considered it. If it weren’t for my employer allowing domestic partnerships to qualify for full health benefits, we’d have one to City Hall a few months ago.

(via the LAT):

On a broader scale, the survey found that healthcare costs outranked housing costs, rising food prices and credit card bills as a source of concern. Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they had experienced serious problems because of the cost of healthcare, compared with 29% who had problems getting a good job or a raise. Gasoline prices were the top economic worry, with 44% saying they had serious problems keeping up with increases at the pump.

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When asked about the Liberal backlash about the Times’ decision, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal had this to say:

The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual—and somehow that’s a bad thing… How intolerant is that?

It’s not about tolerance moron, it’s about the truth…

Here’s David Sirota’s response to crooksandliars via email:

This is really sick – especially when you consider it is happening at a time when the country is clearly moving more progressive, and there are so many good progressive columnists who have guest columned for the Times before (Ehrenreich, Katha Pollit, Tom Frank, etc.).

Either way – it is an absolute abomination from the standpoint of basic accountability. A pundit being factually wrong on almost everything he hung his hat on is rewarded by the largest newspaper in the world for his track record. If ever there was an example of the world of journalism literally thumbing its nose at basic accountability, this example of Bill Kristol falling up is it.

John Maeda will assume his responsibilities as president of RISD in June 2008.

The Tuna is off to Miami to be the Director of Football Operations.