Far more surprises that I might have expected. This is actually worth reading… it talks about why some “health” foods are a scam, how gluten is REALLY bad for you if you aren’t celiac, and just how (more…)
Open Letter to JEEP & their corporate thinkers. I don’t cars much, because, you know… yeah. Cars.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/04/11/mxp-vo-land-rover-disappearing-hood.hln.html For those of us in high center trucks, who sometimes go offroad, this is INCREDIBLE. I often end up (more…)
Was the Nest buy overvalued? Google’s Internet for Things for Things.
No. Internet of Things. “An internet for things”. This is about google’s hardware struggles. Nest has some great designers (people heard of the ipod?), but it’s not about that. It’s about the other internet, (more…)
The Economic waste of Christmas: Does it impoverish? Does it destroy wealth?
Along with +PBS ‘ “The Economic Waste of Christmas” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/12/the-economic-waste-of-christma.html & +Forbes ‘ Does Christmas Destroy Wealth? – http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2013/12/22/does-christmas-destroy-wealth/ I (more…)
Avalanches and Awesomeness
BACKFLIP OUT OF AN AVALANCHE? Or showing off? BASE JUMPING OFF A MOUNTAIN NEXT TO AN AVALANCHE? can’t believe I am linking this show, but can’t find the video elsewhere. Massive (more…)
The Power of Adobe Photoshop, and a Plastic Vision of the Future Singularity… Augmented Humans seeking perfection.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/10/watch-as-woman-goes-from-average-to-fabulous-in-37-seconds/ That video is nutso, because we’ve actually created a human image that doesn’t exist, and (more…)
The End of Facebook and the Coming Social Media Bubble
So… your point on my Fishbits FB was sanguine (he said “why do you talk so bad about FB while posting so much?). Â However, where you said I had posted 20 some odd posts since early June, I hadn’t actually (more…)
Data is Now. Aggregate data overload, and unlocking it for the future.
You can find so much here at DATAVIS. This, I believe is the most significant and accessible way for people to understand what is happening here… it’s not just visualizing, but mapping data with controls (more…)