WPF for LOB
Seattle - Redmond
Excellent visit this week with Jaime Rodriguez and Karl Shifflett and their “WPF for LOB” training at Microsoft in Redmond.
Sunday Billiards
In: Health & Fitness, Long Pond
Easter Angler
This season’s first lake lapper. Very much later than usual. Live Map.
In: Health & Fitness, Long Pond
Don’t Let it End
… Breakpoint 2010, world’s biggest pure demoscene event. For the 8th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are expected to gather one final time in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 2nd to the 5th of April 2010 (Easter weekend), enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing…
In: Creativity, DataViz, Software Design, Travel
Seattle bound
Looking forward to a visit to Seattle end of next month. Trying to decide on extra time…
1000 Variations of Long Pond
One day I want to compose a book of photos showing a thousand variations of Long Pond. I never cease to be amazed at the constant variation presented by the view out our floor-to-ceiling living room window. Yesterday was no exception.
I noticed the ice moving. Usually it moves straight to the southeast beach through the course of an hour or two–usually some time in February or March, during the annual ice peel. Yesterday it was moving to the northwest. It was warm enough to go check it out up close in the canoe. What I found was a tessellation of flower-like patterns in the ice. Friday–a couple days prior–we had our final winter snow storm (today is the first day of Spring). Soon after falling, the snow slightly melted into the already-soft ice forming these amazing patterns. Unfortunately, all I had with me was my BlackBerry with its now-dysfunctional camera.
Incidentally, this morning Long Pond was still half-covered in ice, but by late afternoon it was all clear. Long Pond 2010 Ice Peel: March 21–the latest in memory.
“Abject Scientific Nonsense” –Novella, on Oz
There are few living souls on this earth that I’d rather meet than Krista Tippett–the brilliant (and beautiful) journalist, author and extraordinary host of the NPR radio program Speaking of Faith. In Krista’s words
What most Americans want, whether they are religious or not, is for the religious voice in our public life to be more constructive — to reflect the capacity religion has to nourish lives and communities.
Recently, she’s been on a bit of a science bender, producing some of the most thought-provoking, intelligent, meaning-of-life-exploring programs available. 
One of these, Mathmatics, Purpose + Truth, “sounds depths I had never considered before” (a phrase Krista uses to describe the latest book penned by the interviewee, Janna Levin). I’m placing A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines along side Einstein’s God on my “Currently Reading” shelf, and adding this podcast to my new “monthly recharge” list (more on that later).
It is then with considerable amuzement that I listened to the recent rebroadcast of a 2007 program Heart and Soul: The Integrative Medicine of Dr. Mehmet Oz. In Krista’s probing questions, you can observe the early subtle signs of the skeptic that I believe she is gradually becoming. I may be wrong on this. And I would love the opportunity to dig deeper into her amazing mind.
Dr. Mehmet Oz? No one can touch Steven Novella‘s air-tight rational analyses and his response to the Oz interview is no exception. He takes him to task, summarizing his utterances as “abject scientific nonsense.” (Steven is another great mind on my would-love-to-meet list)
In: Books, Religion, Science
The Spectrum of User Experience
Another Venn Diagram on UX. This one from Nishant Kothary. The identity crisis persists…
These days, user experience professionals look down on the word “designer” because it implies that their primary role is to paint pretty pixels. UX is more than that, they clarify. Much more!
Just how much? Well, here’s a diagram (that uses pretty pixels) to explain how much more—
The Spectrum of User Experience
In: DataViz, Software Design, UX
Der Mensch als Industriepalast
Combine Fritz Kahn’s 1926 modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system with Designer Henning Lederer‘s command of animation and interactive form and you get visualization magic. Watch the video.
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.
Successful Information Design
Successful Information Design