David Pogue reviews Tiger for the NY Times. Al Franken is coming home to Minnesota. Looks like Norm might have an opponent in ’08. Arianna Huffington appears to be forming a blog posse. PacifierOnline is a new modern children’s store in Minneapolis. Nicely priced kids furniture alongside overpriced kids clothing. Smoking Marijuana may be less [...]
Last week, our fine government introduced us to the new $2.5 million dollar (that’s right, 2.5 MILLION dollars) food pyramid. (a nice analysis on SpeakUp.) It’s a stunning piece of bad design. Clip art mixed with a variety of Tufte’s ‘do not do this’ examples. And, of course, the data is shaped more by the [...]
It’s Friday. Time to go through the week’s leftovers… Macradobe Since Macromedia’s days are now numbered, take a stroll down memory lane with a history of Macromedia products. Remember Drumbeat? Xres? Soundedit 16? Extreme 3D? Fontographer? Open Source for Democracy Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential is a report from Demos, a [...]
Carlson School of Management presents Governor Tim Pawlenty More info here McNamara Alumni Center 200 Oak Street SE Minneapolis
It’s Friday. Time to clean out the closet of links I didn’t get around to creating full posts for. Sproutliner Sproutliner is a free web-based to-do list similiar to 37Sig’s Ta-Da List. Ta-Da list excels in simplicity. Sproutliner sticks with that, but it requires a learning curve to reach it (is that an oxymoron?). It [...]
Global E-democracy Trends: Leading Governments and E-democracy– A bonus presentation by Steven Clift – 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Thursday, April 21, 2005 402 Walter Library, University of Minnesota, East Bank For those interested in an in-depth exploration of governments and leading e-democracy practices, join Steven Clift as he presents examples from around the world. A sample [...]
5:00 – 6:30 pm, Thursday, April 21, 2005 402 Walter Library, University of Minnesota, East Bank Join Steven Clift as he ties together the first decade of “e-democracy” with a citizen-centric agenda for building community life and democracy in the the 21st century. The Internet allows citizens to become everyday citizens “anywhere, any time” by deeply [...]
This year’s gay bashing season started off with the usual ‘inane talking points repeated ad nauseam’ by our own Rep. Dan Severson. Due to some flex time scheduling at work this spring, I’ve had the displeasure of being able to watch Mr. Severson ‘debate’ live thanks to Minnesota Public Television. Obviously, Mr. Severson is a [...]
It’s Friday. Time for some random links… More Nifty Corners is an updated article and set of code for creating rounded boxes without the use of any images and, if you use the javascript method, without any extraneous markup in your HTML either. This new version adds more browser support, options for rounding only some [...]
A couple weeks back, I clicked from Transit for Livable Communities’ site to MNTransit.org’s site supporting Transportation Choices 2020 (HF 1735 or SF 1703). I added my personal frustrations with our current transit options to MNTransit’s boilerplate message and sent it to Rep. Mindy Greiling and Senator John Marty. Both replied with a very nice [...]