Another day : Another Dollar :: Another Week : ?
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Brendan - Apple Dumplings Childcare Craigslist Posting - Now, at first glance, you might think this is childcare for those learning disabled kids I was talking about in my last post. Not so. This site comically (and unintentionally) shows the dangers of putting up too many pictures of yourself on the internet and an overdependence on comic sans (here’s looking at you, Drew).
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Brian - Jakob Nielsen’s Usability Fighting Styles - No need to explain. If you know who Jakob Nielsen is, it should make perfect sense. If not… laugh along anyway. Just don’t be like the last guy in the comments.
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Grant - Judge orders lawyers to play game - I’ve noticed that people often choose scissors first when playing “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. In fact, people I play against tend to do scissors, then paper, then rock more often than other combinations. Don’t ask why, although I have my theories. Well, this judge has just helped me convert this knowledge into an advantage in the courtroom! I guess I should go into law.
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Sean - Force-Directed JS Graphs - I’ve been waiting so long for someone to pull this off, and somebody finally did! Bravo! Now I really need to find an excuse to use this in something…
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Zach - Fabuloso Friday! - The hilarious Ze Frank has been doing a daily vlog, er, vodcast, er, vlogcast, um, whatever the hell it’s called, since the end of March. It’s called The Show and it’s kind of like the Daily Show, only 3 minutes long, manic and with more swearing. This week he did the first ever Fabuloso Friday where the viewers concocted a script via a wiki and Ze performed it. I don’t think it was quite as funny as some of the previous ones, but it was a pretty cool idea and execution.





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Cool shits.
I had a brother-proudness moment today when I checked my sister’s AIM profile for the first time in a while and discovered she had www.bancomicsans.com listed. WTG little sister! Fight for the right to … be an elitist font snob!
Also: I <3 force directed layout, but I wish people would stop insisting on rendering it live. It’s cool that it’s simple and easy to do (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fruchterman91graph.html or http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/11922/0 for tricksier ways to do it) but it’s such a performance hit to provide the fancy live layout animation, which just adds some flashiness but little real value. The recently-popular Websites as Graphs project is quite guilty of this, too.
But yeah, despite my reservations about the live-ness of it, I’m glad to see a JS implementation of this algorithm. Good find Sean.
PS. Can we get comment previewing? I suspect I screwed up my HTML somewhere in this and it will make my comment very sad.
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I mentioned this to Sean before, but prefuse is a sweet Java visualization toolkit. Very easy to use, and so sweet.
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Seven dollars?