It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. That’s largely because I’ve been traveling a lot, giving talks, and most recently relocating to a new city. It became clear to me a while ago that I wasn’t going to get around to making more videos anytime soon. So, I figured I would make a post about the projects that I would probably make videos of if I had more free time. The content of this post has been in the talks that I’ve been giving, but I’m just sitting down to write it out now for my trusty blog readers.

Mucho good crap from the UI wizard.

Procrastineering - Project blog for Johnny Chung Lee: More Wiimote Projects - A Brain Dump

Slide show presentations are taking the world or, at least the box office, by storm. Al Gore's global warming presentation, featured in the movie An Inconvenient Truth, is probably the most successful ever produced. Since its release, the movie has strengthened the world-wide movement to prevent global warming, won two academy awards and helped Gore win a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

The movie is also an example of how effective a slide show presentation can be. Presentations are a powerful way to get your message across both verbally and visually.

To help us learn how to make our slide show presentations as powerful as Al Gore's, we've asked for advice from Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the company behind the slide show featured in An Inconvenient Truth, and author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. This is what she had to say about delivering a successful presentation.

Make a Presentation Like Al Gore - Wired How-To Wiki

The people behind Al Gore's slides.

Duarte Design: Horizon

June 30, 1925. "Miss Dorothy Brautigam of the National American Ballet." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Water Nymphet: 1925 | Shorpy :: History in HD

This is a set of dramatic high resolution photos of what is going down in Iowa.

Holy crap these people are so screwed.

Photos of the Iowa cataclysm

New York, 1917. "Washday on landship Recruit." Sailors doing their laundry on the Navy's pretend battleship moored at Union Square, used for recruiting during World War I. In back is the Automatic Vaudeville penny arcade, two of whose backers -- Marcus Loew and Adolph Zukor -- went on to found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures after a few years in the nickelodeon business.

Shipshape: 1917 | Shorpy :: History in HD

In an effort to give Florida startups a boost, Gov. Jeb Bush has proposed that the state legislature earmark $75 million to provide startup and early-stage funding for fledgling companies.

The $75 million is part of a $630 million economic development package that the governor asked legislators to include in the 2006-2007 budget. The package is aimed at helping diversify Florida’s economy and reduce reliance on tourism. The state legislature has 60 days to respond from Bush’s March 7 State of the State address.

I think this happened.

Florida Proposes $75 Million for Startups, Venture Capital Article - Inc. Article

Some Day I Will Be This Cool - dog'S faint!!

Jun. 16, 2008 | Jean Brochu was a respectable attorney in Quebec with a wife and two kids. That was before he first punched the button on a video slot machine in 2000. Within 15 months, Brochu says he was losing $500 a day to the machines. He plunged headlong into debt, and lost his car and his house. He stole $50,000 from his union, and was consequently disbarred for three months. He claims that in several dark moments he contemplated suicide. He also says it was all the fault of those slot machines.

Now Brochu is the lead plaintiff in a massive class action lawsuit against Loto-Quebec, the government agency that runs all forms of gambling in the province. Brochu's lawyer, Roger Garneau, says he filed the suit on behalf of the estimated 119,000 gambling addicts in Quebec province. Garneau says the slot machines dragged these citizens into addiction. "They have been conceived and constructed for trapping the mind," he says. The suit asks for almost $700 million in damages.

For Garneau to win at trial this year, he'll have to prove not only that Brochu and his fellow plaintiffs are gambling addicts suffering from a diagnosable mental illness, but also that their illness is a direct result of playing the 15,000 video slot machines scattered in bars and restaurants throughout the province. null

Funny.

Salon.com News | Gambling with science

Study subjects who spent just 20 minutes mixing sprints with jogging lost three times the fat off their legs and butt in 15 weeks, compared to those who jogged steadily for 40 minutes, research from the University of New South Wales in Sydney finds. Intervals may spark fat-mobilizing hormones, and they amp your cardio capacity so your future runs will actually feel easier.null

Exercise: Burn More Calories in Less Time with Interval Exercises