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An dis­cus­sion about the rela­tion­ship between anthro­pol­ogy and enthnog­ra­phy raises the ques­tion of how to clearly define the dis­cus­sion and knowl­edge of people’s.His­tory is a sequenc­ing of events, a kind of cause and effect, that is the inevitable out­come of try­ing to under­stand the pat­tern of events that is defined by a period. Yet history […]

Text while dri­ving? Thought every­one did. That’s cause I’ve got my head down texting.…uh-huh. clipped from www.marketingcharts.com 26% of Mobile Users Text While Dri­ving Despite an increas­ing num­ber of state bans on dri­ving while tex­ting (DWT) and numer­ous reports of texting-related acci­dents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text mes­sages while […]

Here’s an edu­ca­tional film from the 1940’s on how banks work. Every­thing seemed so sim­ple. The funny thing is, every bank trans­ac­tion was some­how related to money that was actu­ally IN THE BANK! clipped from www.lifehackingmovie.com You 2.0 A doc­u­men­tary on life hack­ing Over the past few days I’ve been going through lots of archival footage […]

A really fas­ci­nat­ing analy­sis of home run hit­ting rel­a­tive to dif­fer­ent vari­ables: height, weight, age, pitch loca­tion, etc. clipped from www.feedly.com Next up I graphed stan­dard dis­tance against a batter’s weight. It’s a stan­dard assump­tion that heav­ier play­ers have more raw power. And even though listed player weights are some of the more unre­li­able base­ball data […]

This is a pow­er­ful use of graph­ics and infor­ma­tion to give a near real-time vision of the local stress being dri­ven by the eco­nomic slow­down. While broad swathes of the coun­try are expe­ri­enc­ing rel­a­tively light stres­sors, high pop­u­la­tion areas along the coasts and the indus­trial mid­west are under tremen­dous pres­sures. clipped from www.feedly.com Source: AP […]

Per­so­n­aNon­Data: Pre­dic­tions 2009: Death and Res­ur­rec­tion:: Pub­lish­ing Strategy

With the onslaught of stim­u­lus baked into mod­ern life, the con­stant per­sua­sion of the pub­lic dia­logue and the desire of each one of us to assess oth­ers for their fit­ness in our tribe, we expe­ri­ence con­stant pres­sure on our iden­tity. The work of becom­ing an adult in mod­ern Amer­ica is to inte­grate iden­tity into action, […]

This is really neat. Sim­ple, clear, and some­thing that was a tightly defined infor­ma­tion expe­ri­ence before the videonet.…

One on spot tune

This is the graphic I was look­ing for. 1980 is 100, which, when you con­sider the seem­ingly pro­found dif­fer­ences in the qual­ity of life today ver­sus 40 years ago makes the resilient con­fi­dence in the midst of the Viet­nam War, cul­ture shock and pro­found racial unrest, remarkable.