Flyover Country

According to Wikipedia, Grimace, the beloved purple milkshake thing from McDonalds, has been banned from evil, Communist China for “being too much of a free spirit and was rumored to have strong ties to the capitalist West.” God, I love Wikipedia.

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Remember Origami, the overhyped ultra-mobile pc? It was supposed to retail for super-cheap, and be a fantastic extension of your existing in-home PC infrastructure. Unfortunately, the devices ended up retailing for about a thousand bucks instead. I’ve always loved these things, still, and am quite interested in buying one at some point. I think they’re [...]

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I ran across this a couple days ago, and have been trying to find time to blog it ever since. It’s an interactive ‘periodic table’ of visualization tools and techniques, chunked into data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor and compound categories. Need to know the difference between an infomural and and a rich picture? It’ll show [...]

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There’s a bit of a hullabaloo going on out there in the blogosphere about Edelman mailing out free Ferarri laptops with Windows Vista to bloggers. Scoble thinks it’s an awesome idea, and Joel Spolsky thinks Scoble’s completely wrong on the basis that this laptop giveaway constitutes an unethical arrangement, and that it is destroying the [...]

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As I predicted on the 31st, Apple just announced the iPhone, and boy howdy is it ever sweet. I want one but, as I suspected, it totally lacks integration with Exchange. Most business users will probably yawn and go back to their Blackberries (even though RIMM is down 8% at the time that I write [...]

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A while back I wrote about a new snipping tool included with Windows Vista. I just found an even cooler one just now that leverages Vista’s DWM to create perfect screen captures on Vista every time, as seen in the screenshot below:

You’ll notice that the background doesn’t bleed through, nor do [...]

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A co-worker of mine was nice enough to update my Windows system color chart with the Royale theme from Windows XP Media Center Edition. You can find the updated chart at its original location. Thanks, Moneta!

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I’ll be the first to admit it: I don’t know the first thing about drawing, and it never ceases to irritate me. For this reason, I was incredibly excited when I ran into Drawspace by way of Hillel Cooperman’s weblog, today.
They cover everything from positive and negative spaces to a case study on [...]

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