Ken Shirriff's blog: Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
4 weeks ago by TomC
Wow, dense and amazingly well researched take-down :)
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history
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4 weeks ago by TomC
Makematics
7 weeks ago by TomC
Mathematics for Makers - see sidebar for first articles.
articles
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art
design
mathclub
7 weeks ago by TomC
Being Funny | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
7 weeks ago by TomC
"This was my 16th appearance on the show, and the first one I could really call a smash. The next day, elated by my success, I walked into an antiques store on La Brea. The woman behind the counter looked at me.
"Are you that boy who was on "The Tonight Show" last night?"
"Yes," I said.
"Yuck!" she blurted out."
stevemartin
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fame
people
"Are you that boy who was on "The Tonight Show" last night?"
"Yes," I said.
"Yuck!" she blurted out."
7 weeks ago by TomC
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software
february 2012 by TomC
The most commonly recommended (and decent) intro to unicode for programmers.
unicode
programming
code
encoding
utf8
utf16
text
joelspolsky
articles
february 2012 by TomC
The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML)
june 2011 by TomC
Amazingly thorough article about Scott Schiller's "Wheels of Steel" CSS/JS prototype. There's a lot to learn from this demo about how to structure a page, wire up dynamic javascript elements, etc. And also how to document things. *applause*
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javascript
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audio
wheelsofsteel
articles
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from delicious
june 2011 by TomC
Being Funny | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
may 2011 by TomC
From Steve Martin's book Born Standing Up, I think.
stevemartin
fame
comedy
articles
smithsonian
from delicious
may 2011 by TomC
You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance | codahale.com
october 2010 by TomC
Clear explanation of database trade-offs by Coda Hale.
databases
consistency
scalability
codahale
articles
october 2010 by TomC
Cross-Browser Event Handling Using Plain ole JavaScript
june 2010 by TomC
Thorough overview of the issues around cross browser DOM events.
javascript
events
dom
articles
june 2010 by TomC
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
july 2009 by TomC
Unusually concise Paul Graham article that nails a point I've been trying to make for years.
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programming
time
articles
planning
work
productivity
meetings
business
human_condition
july 2009 by TomC
Tom Steinberg: Open house in Westminster - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
june 2009 by TomC
mySociety's Tom Steinberg on why the current vogue for political reform should focus on things that just weren't possible before the internet. Everything else has had 200 years of chance and clearly isn't compelling enough.
mysociety
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uk
politics
reform
activism
independent
articles
digitalbritain
june 2009 by TomC
Starting a Design Studio In a Downturn, Part 1: Taking Leaps | Design for the New Economy | Fast Company
june 2009 by TomC
"We knew who we wanted to be when we grew up and how we would avoid becoming our parents." ... "the downturn hadn't quite hit its full stride when we decided to start the company, now called Kicker Studio. The economy wasn't rosy, as I recall, but we still had banks."
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companies
kickerstudio
fastcompany
articles
friends
june 2009 by TomC
Predicting Flu With the Aid of (George) Washington - NYTimes.com
may 2009 by TomC
“People have a very weird perception of large numbers,” he said. “If you have 2,000 cases of flu in a country of 300 million, most people think they’re going to be one of the 2,000, not one of the 299,998,000.”
statistics
flu
maps
money
epidemics
wheresgeorge
nytimes
articles
quotes
may 2009 by TomC
London 2012 Olympics Map Points to the Future of Cartography | Designerati | Fast Company
april 2009 by TomC
Very kind words from Fast Company about our work for London 2012.
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fastcompany
articles
praise
april 2009 by TomC
LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning | Epicenter from Wired.com
february 2009 by TomC
Curious connection between Limewire and GeoServer. Interesting stuff.
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limewire
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articles
wired
planning
urban
nyc
transportation
traffic
cities
opensource
gis
february 2009 by TomC
Obama's energy secretary outlines dire climate change scenario | Environment | The Guardian
february 2009 by TomC
"We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California. I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going."
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agriculture
climate
usa
energy
environment
quotes
guardian
articles
politics
february 2009 by TomC
Generate URIs and IRIs from Templates
february 2009 by TomC
Good overview article about URI templates... "http://example.com/{user}" --> "http:/example.com/TomC"
uri
templates
web
urls
ibm
articles
february 2009 by TomC
Twelve (12) emerging best practice for adding user experience work to agile software development
january 2009 by TomC
I guess we have to make sure there's no category error involved when applying methodologies?
agile
ux
articles
diagrams
quadrants
january 2009 by TomC
OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem
november 2008 by TomC
Ed Freyfogle from Nestoria guest-posting on Techcrunch. Good article.
openstreetmap
nestoria
articles
techcrunch
november 2008 by TomC
A signal to rebuild public transport - Building Design
november 2008 by TomC
I like the spirit of this article, but "The great infrastructure buildings of Europe in the past decade or so have been train stations, occasionally airports, but never car parks or motorway bridges." is wrong. Millau Viaduct anyone? It's a stunning bit of bridge building.
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november 2008 by TomC
The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com
november 2008 by TomC
So basically, colossal risk was transferred to ignorant shareholders and the majority of people involved just cashed out and looked the other way.
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crisis
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business
culture
subprime
investing
articles
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november 2008 by TomC
Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian
november 2008 by TomC
"If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls."
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guardian
articles
writing
quotes
zombies
deadset
channel4
death
november 2008 by TomC
interactions magazine
october 2008 by TomC
"I think 2005 was the year we began living in the world of commonplace ubiquitous computing devices." – Mike Kuniavsky
ubicomp
articles
mikek
october 2008 by TomC
The story behind Google Chrome
september 2008 by TomC
Good overview from Niall Kennedy, via swillison
google
chrome
browsers
articles
niallkennedy
september 2008 by TomC
the art of braid
september 2008 by TomC
Great gamasutra article about how the game's unique art came together.
games
design
art
painting
braid
gamasutra
articles
september 2008 by TomC
Infoviz art. - By Amanda Schaffer - Slate Magazine
september 2008 by TomC
"How artists are mining data sets to make you see the unseen." – /making/ you see it!
information_visualisation
slate
articles
september 2008 by TomC
globeandmail.com: The days of urban sprawl are over ...
july 2008 by TomC
Richard Florida article I haven't read yet because I'm trying to finish his new book first.
cities
urban
energy
oil
richardflorida
articles
sprawl
july 2008 by TomC
Signs that you are a bad programmer (Bad Programmers)
july 2008 by TomC
It's overly negative, but there's some good stuff in there. (Who wrote it?)
programming
articles
july 2008 by TomC
WorldChanging: The Geography of America's Carbon Footprint
june 2008 by TomC
Interesting map further down.
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usa
carbon
energy
environment
articles
worldchanging
june 2008 by TomC
adaptive path » blog » Kim Lenox » A Rant on Design Concepts and Confidentiality
may 2008 by TomC
from the comments "It’s not the question if you are better or more talented but quicker! ;)"
design
adaptivepath
articles
ndas
may 2008 by TomC
We're all big babies - Telegraph
april 2008 by TomC
How to be an adult, (by Michael Bywater, from 2006)
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human_condition
telegraph
articles
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april 2008 by TomC
Websites | Hold the front page | Economist.com
april 2008 by TomC
"the novelty-based strategy for ordering stories on the home-page proved far superior to the popularity-based one. In other words, digg.com is doing the right thing. However, if the half-life is increased, the situation changes."
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digg
economist
articles
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april 2008 by TomC
A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
april 2008 by TomC
More excellent Everyblock-fu. Wilson makes me ashamed to use Flash. Sometimes.
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april 2008 by TomC
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
april 2008 by TomC
This is a really good article from Paul of Everyblock, about their custom maps and how they make them. Sadly he's still not talking seriously about what I think the hard part is: getting data in the first place!
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everyblock
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openstreetmap
april 2008 by TomC
Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges at Aral Balkan
april 2008 by TomC
Long talk notes on state-of-the-art Flash and how we got here.
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design
programming
opensource
actionscript
flex
as3
talks
articles
april 2008 by TomC
Traces of Inspiration » Blog Archive » URL as UI
april 2008 by TomC
Nice explanation of hackable URLS: made for humans, or made for machines? There's a third category though: made for SEO.
urls
ui
design
web
articles
comment
april 2008 by TomC
Food prices | The end of cheap food | Economist.com
december 2007 by TomC
Best Economist article I've read for a while - fix world poverty but temporarily screw the urban poor? Who doesn't love a good dilemma?
economics
finance
food
money
politics
poverty
sustainability
economist
articles
december 2007 by TomC
Exploration Through Example » Blog Archive » The gap between business and code
november 2007 by TomC
strongly resonant software project management paper (via migurski)
software
management
development
agile
programming
writing
articles
papers
november 2007 by TomC
Most Casual Observer: Everything is Miscellaneous (not!)
october 2007 by TomC
In defense of libraries... David Weinberger and Clay Shirky: do your homework. (good book recommendations at the end).
libraries
classification
taxonomy
folksonomy
books
articles
criticism
homework
october 2007 by TomC
What is browsing—really? A model drawing from behavioural science research
october 2007 by TomC
"1) glimpsing a field of vision, 2) selecting or sampling a physical or informational object within the field of vision, 3) examining the object, 4) acquiring the object (conceptually and/or physically) or abandoning it"
browsing
search
information
data
research
articles
october 2007 by TomC
FT.com / Arts & Weekend / House & Home - Back to the drawing board
october 2007 by TomC
Should architects learn to draw?
drawing
design
architecture
articles
october 2007 by TomC
onfocus.com | Graphing for Mortals
july 2007 by TomC
RRDTool and more...
software
charts
time
information_visualisation
articles
july 2007 by TomC
Mapping a Medusa: The Internet spreads its tentacles: Science News Online, June 23, 2007
july 2007 by TomC
"A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition" - 20% of nodes can't communicate without using the 'core', and other such findings.
information_visualisation
articles
internet
graphs
networks
july 2007 by TomC
cab spots
june 2007 by TomC
Eddie Elliot took Cabspotting's data on a powers-of-ten walk, through time.
sanfrancisco
gps
cabspotting
stamen
information_visualisation
geo
mapping
maps
graphics
art
design
articles
june 2007 by TomC
BusinessWeek: IBM's Data-Visualization Champion
june 2007 by TomC
"At Big Blue, Martin Wattenberg is developing leading-edge projects to bolster the ability to read, share, and understand data in new ways"
information_visualisation
people
articles
businessweek
wattenberg
june 2007 by TomC
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