Month: October 2010

  • San Juan del Sur Biblioteca

    San Juan del Sur Biblioteca lwbubc: The SJDS Biblioteca is the first lending library in Nicaragua, providing books, information, technology, and community center services to the people of San Juan del Sur and its surrounding communities. “Our objective was to start a lending library and mobile program for San Juan del Sur and the small…

  • Journalism in the Age of Data

    Journalism in the Age of Data

  • This inspired Frank Chimero to create sense vs nonsense: inspiration vs imitation (by Jessica Hische)

  • Big Money for Companies That Can Analyze Big Data

    Big Money for Companies That Can Analyze Big Data nosql: three skills necessary for data-driven start-ups: data munging, the corralling and wrestling of data; modeling, the statistical analysis of data through algorithms; and visualization, the presentation of all the data. While all three are necessary for success, Driscoll believes that modeling and analysis through algorithms…

  • Silly Bandz are great fun, but they’re not really relevant to adults. So we made these Serious Bandz, suitable for anyone who has a dysfunctional marriage, a humdrum job, or a looming awareness of their own mortality. Get yours today! Silly Bandz, of course, are the variously-shaped rubber bands that all the kids are wearing…

  • secondside: omg, can you imagine this

  • Indenting the first paragraph. The first paragraph is never indented, subsequent paragraphs are.Indenting a paragraph too far. The standard indent for a paragraph is 1 em, not ½ inch. (Identing and adding empty space require penance. Save your soul by using one or the other, not both.)Failing to hang punctuation into the margin. Punctuation has…

  • parkparadigm: Big data principles according to Josh. i2pi

  • rhibozoids: Great idea and visually stunning.  I really like the full-frontal display of the stacks, but would love to see some smaller lifts in the system to get to those books in the harder to reach shelves…a little tastefully-added complexity never hurts plus that would answer some basic functional questions.