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WorldChanging Seattle: Congestion Pricing: Can Tolling Be Fair?

WorldChanging Seattle: Congestion Pricing: Can Tolling Be Fair? – WorldChanging Seattle (one of my favourite websites since I moved to Seattle, but also a great site for people anywhere) links to a really well-done report on traffic congestion and tolls, … Continue reading

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timing makes a big difference

During election day here in the US, I noticed a church which was acting as a poll location also had a bake sale on that day. Think about how many more people will pass by that bake sale than on … Continue reading

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on returning to microsoft

I started writing this post in early August and forgot to finish it and publish. So here it is now I was an intern at Microsoft the previous two summers, and this week I started full time. Some things change … Continue reading

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Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising – information aesthetics

Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising – information aesthetics – nice ads… we need to see more information graphics everywhere

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Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet

Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet – since I emailed Mikel asking for a list like this about a year and a half ago, I can take credit for … Continue reading

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Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing iCal and CSV Support

Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing iCal and CSV Support – so this news is way old… somehow I never knew that Yahoo pipes supported iCal for both input and output. Pipes is such an amazingly powerful tool, I … Continue reading

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WorldChanging Seattle: Smaller Homes, Bigger Communities

WorldChanging Seattle: Smaller Homes, Bigger Communities – my interests seem to converge a lot. Reading an article about how small houses are better (which I have been trying to convince people of for some time) on a Seattle (where I … Continue reading

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Sidewalks Can Be Cool Too…So Why Aren’t They? | hugeasscity

Sidewalks Can Be Cool Too…So Why Aren’t They? | hugeasscity – just what I was thinking during a lot of my time in Europe a few months ago.

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Freebase Parallax

Freebase Parallax – when Freebase first came out as a sort of open version of Google Base, I doubted if it would come to fill that role. Today Freebase has tons of data, and is really well designed and managed. … Continue reading

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I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData

I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData – t-shirts with information graphics. One of my dozens of failed infographic ideas was to put them on t-shirts, but I didn’t get past one design (in my head).

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