Monday, May 12, 2003

While trying to remember the title of one of Edward Tufte's books I came across a work of his that I have not seen -- The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. The cover photo makes visiting the site worthwhile. 5:11:30 PM     Many have suggested that the sign of power in the future will be the ability to disconnect. Are you a slave to your phone, does it enhance your lifestyle or does your lifestyle require a certain amount of slavery? 8:29:13 AM     Denim is a very interesting tool for the early stages of web site and user interface design from Berkeley. 7:03:05 AM     Robert Putnam popularized the concept of social capital when he wrote Bowling Alone. Here he attempts to measure it and correlate it with other social welfare issues. An interesting note is the greatest predictor of the level social capital in the US is a location's distance from the Canadian border. It would be difficult to draw conclusions from this work, but it is interesting stuff. 6:20:14 AM     Sukie recommends Mr Traffic as a must visit site. I agree ... there is a huge amount of fascinating trivial. where does REO Speedwagon come from? what incident prompted speed limits? where did the Chevrolet "bowtie" come from? when did power steering show up? when did automatic transmissions show up? 6:19:45 AM     And one for Sukie -- The Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden - nearly 100,000 images. 6:19:02 AM

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