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Posted by on Apr 10th, 2008 | 2 comments

Comparing Oranges and Architecutre

Michelle Kaufmann’s blog has a writeup on a little idea regarding architecture, performance rating, and you. It introduces an idea about labeling paralleling the reasons for which we standardize nutrition information labels on food then applying those reasons for labeling architecture in order to communicate specific performance issues. This idea definitely has legs and could be elaborated on much more than...
Posted by on Mar 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

Death of an encyclopedia saleseman

Okay this might be terribly shocking – we all knew it was inevitable after all. The print encyclopedia is now officially dead. Perhaps it has something to do with wikipedia being more accurate and accessible but encyclopedia publishers worldwide have said that they will no longer be making any more hardcopy encyclopedias. This is good for the most part though there is still a place for the physical...
Posted by on Mar 8th, 2008 | 1 comment

Etch-a-clock

Angela over at Make has hacked together an etch-a-sketch which automatically draws the time. This opens all kinds of doors for etch-a-visualization. It even erases itself every minute! Whats more, she’s actually done a good job of fabricating the thing in to a nice clean looking package, rather than a mess of wires and hardware. Very elegant. It doesn’t take long to etch in the current time so with the...
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