We are off the Internets for 2009. Have a great holiday season, and we’ll see you in 2010.
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In the Armory
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The DoD Loves Complex Charts
December 17, 2009 – 1:46 pm
As you know, Bob, I’m mildly obsessed with how to display data visually. Displaying data well is tough, especially when you’re talking about complex data. When I have to design a chart for some crazy-ass set of data, I often look at how others have done the same thing, and I keep tabs on blogs [...]
Oh, Authors, Why Must You Be Crazy on the Internet?
December 16, 2009 – 11:34 am
If I linked to every incident of an author being crazy on the Internet over a bad review, I’d be here all day, but this one is a perfect shining diamond of such crazy. It’s the platonic ideal of an author going insane over a bad review, and will be studied by future cockroach scholars [...]
It’s Not the Name, It’s the Persona
December 15, 2009 – 10:58 am
James Chartrand is a well-known blogger in certain circles through his articles for Copyblogger and his web design and copyrighting company, Men With Pens. Yesterday James admitted on Copyblogger that he’s really a she. She’d adopted a male pen name to make it easier to land freelancing jobs.
You know the punchline, of course: it worked.
There [...]
I’m practicing saying, “I am an artist.”
December 11, 2009 – 6:05 am
I think a lot about other people’s artistic styles–about how I wished I’d thought of what they’ve created. Or maybe I wish my stuff were as cool as I perceive theirs to be. Maybe my work is cool and maybe it isn’t. I’m not writing this down to garner praises or sneers for what I [...]
How to Choose Board Games in Many Easy Steps
December 9, 2009 – 8:59 pm
Since I have the bad habit of collecting board games in much the same way that the Collyer brothers collected newspapers, people sometimes ask me to recommend board games. Often they want a recommendation of something to buy for their non-board-game-playing friend. That’s a hard question to answer. It’s like saying, “My friend doesn’t really [...]
Whatever Night Videos: Seismographs
December 8, 2009 – 10:37 am
Sean pointed me to this video for a song called “I’ll Be Gone” by Mario Basanov & Vidis (feat. Jazzu).
If nothing else, check out the effect that starts around 1:52. I swear it works as a metaphor for the transient nature of music. Man, music visualization is cool.
Friday Night Videos on Monday: Achingly Meta
December 7, 2009 – 11:12 am
Today is busy busy, so have a music video that starts out all meta and gets even more meta-y. Thank you, MetaFilter, for making my morning by pointing me to this.
