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David Garcia hacks NASDAQ ‘big button’

David Garcia hacks NASDAQ ‘big button’

David Garcia, a dev lead at Facebook, got a chance to hack the NASDAQ button, using a cellphone and a few things from RadioShack (including what must have been gator clips since I don’t think he took apart the guts, just flipped a switch when the main circuit was completed… I’m totally assuming on that [...]

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Charts-n-things (NYT data blogger Kevin Quealy)

Nice new blog from an NYT graphics department reporter and data-journalist, Kevin Quealy. Lots of cool ‘behind the scenes’ work on how data gets into a graphic that gets onto nytimes.com or the paper version.

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Toyboarders – Injection molded green skaters

I can’t wait to turn my kitchen table into a skatepark. Literal bowls. Whoa.

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Never noticed this joke at simple.com

Never noticed this joke at simple.com

It’s a pretty subtle economics joke. Hint: Check out the card. I’ve already left my ‘big bad bank’ and moved all of my accounts to a bank that loves me. But still, I really like Simple both in concept and execution.

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Let’s play Ancient Greek Punishment!

Let’s play Ancient Greek Punishment!

Sisyphus! Tantulus! Zeno’s Paradox! Play them all…  Great stuff from games developer and researcher, Pippin Barr.

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Clear To-Do List App

This is really nice to-do list app for the iPhone. You can see that there is barely any UI at all — it’s completely gestural. Or nearly so. The app is still in development and ’coming soon’ so the video you see here is faked. But I like it.

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Happy Holidays from Thinky!

Check this out: Rappers. Wrapping. (See more at rapperswrapping.tumblr.com) Next year, I want to recruit Atlanta’s hip hop royalty and get them to help us collect and distribute toys for kids. But for this year, we just had to photoshop ‘em! Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!

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Occupy Wall Street – Infographics on $1 bills

I’m a sucker for this kind of project: I love art and design that uses (and abuses) currency. And I love rhetorical uses of information visualization and infographics. “Occupy George” is a plan to print out (on your own dollar bills) statistics which are at least reflective of the goals of the Occupy Wall Street [...]

Google+ unveils “Ripples” (measure of influence)

Google’s got a new visualization of activity on Google+ and it’s called Ripples. The intent is to visualize how (public) posts are passed inside of google’s network. Really nice to look at and very fast rendering. The only examples I’ve played with so far are confirmatory analysis: the people I already know are ‘big’ and [...]

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Presentation @ CHI*Atlanta (given 9/15)

CHI*A CHI Atlanta September Showcase: Zach Pousman View more presentations from zpousman Here’s a quick design case study that recounts our experience building a dashboard for drivers that collects, aggregates, and invites exploration of driving data (each trip, each press of the accelerator, or twist of the wheel, along with GPS and car-computer data). Two [...]

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Mmmm… Lego Frank Lloyd Right “Robie” House

When I attended the University of Chicago, I used to live directly across the street from the “Robie” House (in Woodward dorm, which is no longer). I’ve toured the house inside a couple times, but I used to walk by the front door all the time, and I think it’s *the* best example of his [...]

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Wacom Inkling Pen… For IAs and IxDs

Prediction: The Wacom Inkling pen is going to be good for illustrators but it’s going to be GREAT for IAs (Information Architects) and IxDs (Interaction Designers). We don’t care about things like perfect registration, the levels of sensitivity, and the “feel” of the pen. We care about documenting our sketches and experiments and this thing [...]

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WANT. Griffin iPhone controllable helicopter

WANT. Via BoingBoing.

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Test post for protovis … loading … loading

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NYC’s “N Sky C”

This is teh cool. Average color of the sky in NYC, updated every 5 minutes (with #hex values!).