Awesome.

Le Grand Content

One of the best tourism marketing sites I've seen... I found it pretty funny.

Bahamavention.com - the web's most powerful Bahamavention website.

I want this shirt...One of my friends bet me ten dollars I wouldn't wear it in public :)

[ WOW. I sure wouldn't, but then, girls can get away easier with some things than dudes can. -k]

You've Got Some 'Splaining To Do!

Image posting has been re-enabled! Post away. We've tested on IE, Firefox, Safari, SideKick and Nintendo Wii, and the feature seems to work on all of these platforms. We still have some bugs we're still tracking with the most recent update, but we should have those cleared up over the course of Sunday...

[ Awesome feature guys! Congrats! -k]

Image Posting has been re-enabled!

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.

Awesome.

-k

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) made headlines last month after complaining about Congress’ new schedule that requires members to work five days a week:

“Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.”

Yet, last night, Kingston offered this advice to Americans living in poverty: work longer hours. During House debate over the minimum wage, Kingston said raising the minimum wage would do nothing for poor Americans. Instead, if people marry and work longer hours, “they would be out of poverty,” he said. “It’s an economic fact.”

[ What a fucking asshole. -k]

Think Progress » Kingston: Americans Should ‘Marry and Work Longer Hours’ To Escape Poverty

"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel at Cisco, said in a statement. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission."

Cisco is seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying Cisco's iPhone trademark, the company said.

I don't know... i read this as "We strung them along until Macworld and tried to extort them, which they didn't like, and now we're suing them."

To be sure, Apple should have handled this a long time ago, but I do not trust Cisco's motives in this case. I think they pulled some shit.

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name | News.blog | CNET News.com

Interesting, but I think the authors could have learned more from Edward Tufte (who is, of course, cited in their paper).

Their use of symbology is awful. I applaud the effort and I think it's a good start, but given smart guys who so obviously *read* the literature and know about these systems, I'm kind of astonished that the result doesn't really conform to best practices.

Or at least, best practices as I see them (and I readily admit to being a Tufte superfan).

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

"This is an actual British Government poster outside a London Metro. Looks like they ripped it straight from the set of 'Brazil.'"

Wow. Seriously wow. 1984 really is just a bit late.

Boing Boing: London metro police poster

if you read my post here about the situation at the 585 saturday night, i thought i would provide an update.

i got an email from deke spears, one of the co-owners of the venue, which with his permission, i will go ahead and relay here verbatim after the jump.

Hi. This is Deke Spears (owner of the 585). I was the one who got on the mic and told everyone we had to stop the show. I read your blog. Thanks for writing.

We were shut down because of alcohol. The report said that the detective tried to pay for alcohol but the bartender wouldn't accept so he put the money in the tip Jar. They charged us for selling alcohol...which we didn't do. Not only did they close us down, after we got everyone off the property, they arrested me and co-owner Steven Marchi. Fulton County lock up for 15 hours is a blast!You should try it some time...

We are very sorry to the bands and to the fans who were there Saturday night. We are fighting to remedy the situation. But until further notice all shows have been cancelled. We appreciate all the support we have gotten for
the past 5 months and we hope the support will continue when we re-open.

-Deke

[ Wow, if that's all true then FUCK, fuck, fuck the PO-lice. -k]

Metroblogging Atlanta: update on the situaion at the 585.