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• mapping america’s netflix rentals

  Great interactive graphic from the NYT mapping the top Netflix rentals of 2009 to various zipcodes in major metro areas. New York is predictable: Manhattan watches artsy crap, Jersey and Westchester County watch crap they heard was sophisticated from people at the last wine tasting, and the outer boroughs watch action flicks and minority-targeted [...]

  11 Jan 2010 Nerdery & Sundry, Pop Culture & Memes; one comment. permalink   

• a refreshed evening telegram

  I promised I’m not dead, and indeed, I’m not. It’s been eight months since I last posted (not counting my ‘not dead’ post five months ago). In that time, I tried to accomplish a number of things on the site, including integrating my Google Reader account (so I could actually start contributing articles [...]

  20 Dec 2009 Nerdery & Sundry; one comment. permalink   

• i’m not dead, yet!

  (bonk)
  I am in the process of adding some design tweaks I’ve had in mind for about a year, and some plug-ins I’ve been considering basically since I relaunched this page in March of ‘08. Hopefully, I’ll begin blogging again in the near future.

  21 Jul 2009 Nerdery & Sundry; 5 comments. permalink   

• little red riding hood

  The story animated and reimagined with infographics. It’s a design blog hit that I’m just getting around to posting.
  Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

  21 Apr 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology, design; 2 comments. permalink   

• the raptor dance

  From the 2003 movie Koi. . . Mil Gaya:
  koi mil gaya – it’s magicby snehas
  Fast forward to :50. That is all.

  addendum: I’ve been reminded that tomorrow is Raptor Awareness Day [Facebook link]. Consider this my part to make you more aware of the threat of velociraptor attacks.

  17 Apr 2009 Nerdery & Sundry; 2 comments. permalink   

• how merlin mann made me feel better about my cynicism

  I work very closely with social media in my job, but I might be one of the most cynical in my organization about its uses and merits. I’ve been working on being less of a jerk about the OMGWEB2.0WTFBBQ bandwagon, but Merlin Mann says it much better than I ever could in his excellent [...]

  30 Mar 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• i am still 15 years old

  Do Indian journalists not read what they write?
  In a 19-year-old communal riot case, a Delhi court has acquitted 34 people accused of resorting to violence, and pulled up the police for its sloppy probe.

  27 Jan 2009 Nerdery & Sundry; one comment. permalink   

• viral marketing on the death star

  [via swissmiss]

  15 Jan 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• spammer chutzpah

  A recent bit of comment spam that Akismet filtered out:
  to: Admin – If You want to delete your site from my spam list, please visit this site for instructions: [obvious spam site]

  “If you want me to stop hitting you, please run into my fist.” That takes some balls.

  22 Nov 2008 Nerdery & Sundry; no comments. permalink   

• helvetica and the subway

  Over at AIGA’s site, calligrapher and typographer Paul Shaw has an awesome nine-page article about the long history of unified wayfinding design in the New York City Subway.
  There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 [...]

  19 Nov 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Telegram Metro (NYC); no comments. permalink