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We've just open sourced GeoType, PostOffice, CAS, BuildTracer for Movable Type. These are cool plugins!

Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat

In an unusual operation that was sparked by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary film about dolphin hunting, “The Cove” the restaurant, the Hump, was investigated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the federal Customs and Border Protection agency, which all concluded that the restaurant was serving endangered Sei whale as sushi.

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Touched by the Hand of God, Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Touched by the Hand of God by New Ordernew order 

Up until now, we’ve done

Up until now, we’ve done most of our reading using a single layer of data. This works well when you have abundant space, but breaks down when you try to work on a smaller device. As we pack more and more data into smaller spaces, we need to consider how this data is presented. The answer that provides the best compromise of accessibility and usability is to layer our data using modal dialogs. And now, a story.

Matt Jacobs' The Multi-Layered iPad is an excellent introduction to the challenges facing liberal arts 2.0* thinkers. When Matt says "Book" I ...

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Improving the product, not faithfully

Improving the product, not faithfully reproducing the physical object, always gets priority. I passed on a long, complex page-turning animation because it didn’t make sense (you’re paging up/down, not left/right) and it would have been distracting. And I opted for an extremely brief cross-fade, rather than a slide, because slides take longer and are more visually jarring.

DVD players don’t make fake whirring noises for five minutes before letting you eject a disc to simulate rewinding. Similarly, nobody should need to perform a full-width swipe gesture and wait two seconds for their fake page to turn in their fake book, ...

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via fourfour.typepad.com There is much

via fourfour.typepad.com

There is much wrong and much right about fourfour's Oscar's recap. The animated gifs on this page almost melted my Power Book, but they are worth it.

Documentation of any kind, in

Documentation of any kind, in my experience, should be treated as old and out of date. The question is always "how out of date is this?" and, "who's brain has the latest view of the world?"

via fold.sigusr2.net

Same goes for blogging, but what I really needed was a reason to link to the hot new blog on the scene, fold.

Dan Shanoff: Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Recap

Unlike within the analytics community itself, there's no need to show your work; just offer up some simple sense, and that's good enough. Just make me smarter as a fan and more appreciative of the nuances of the game. I judged a research paper competition run by the conference; my favorite was a paper that compared NBA offensive strategy to driving your car in traffic. I got his point. I think that for next year, they should add a new category of essay: Explaining an advanced, interesting piece of analytics so that the average fan can get it. ...

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It works, there is an

It works, there is an explosion of blood and mess, I have a baby!

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Bing!

I'm testing blogging from Office 2010. Totally sweet. Consider this your Tuesday open thread.

We know that the story

We know that the story is a construct meant to elicit a response and then become a cathartic release when the good guys win. We know that it is only gesturally referential to ‘the real world’ or ‘a logical world’ and that, instead, it is simply put together in order for us to experience spectacle, regardless of whether or not it hold together ‘as narrative’. T:ROTF shows that it doesn’t matter a whit whether narrative coheres, because we are now comfortable with the idea that no narrative actually coheres. We just try and make them do so.

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