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STLD Friday
It’s Save The Last Dance Friday up here.
Mike Daisey and this American denial
Two things are really bothering me about today’s news that monolougist Mike Daisey fabricated portions of his hit performance piece “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Let me get something out of the way out front: I’ve known Mike since about 1996. He was an advisor/supporter of my…
Bangor Daily News blurs the line between news and advertising
The Bangor Daily News is back at it with more ethically-questionable practices on its website, this time in the form of its new “BDN Marketplace News” section which attempts to disguise advertisements as news headlines.
This time of year.
Happy Thanksgiving
Let’s see more context-aware design touches
I hope, and I predict, that we’ll start to see more of a trend in web and software development in the coming months and years that probably already has a great name, but since I don’t know it, for now I’m giving it my own name: context-aware design. Loosely, I define…
Meet T-Paw
I get that taking some share of the youth vote away from President Obama is going to be a key to victory for Republicans in 2012. But that still doesn’t fully explain Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty referring to himself as “T-Paw” on his campaign website: [caption id=”attachment_932″ align=”aligncenter” width=”301″ caption=”A…
First soccer game of the year
My walk to work today, 4/1/2011
Walk to work, 3/24/2011
Walk to work, 3/24/2011, originally uploaded by jgclarke.
Ratio of tweets to alcoholic beverages
I noticed that people (myself included) seem to tweet more frequently when they’ve had drinks, so I made this chart to describe the rise (and fall) of tweets to drinks.
The “Docs”
I made this graphic in honor of all those folders on computers full of random documents and labeled simply “Docs”. Click it to enlarge.