links for 2008-11-13
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Slides, audio, and transcript of a talk on icon design. Design-nerdtastic!
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Via infosthetics: "SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject –both its share of the total and absolute value."
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Uses the (very smooth) bearings and platter of a hard drive as a rotor for an analog input controller. Very clever.
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"Want to fire off a quick email from your Ruby script? Finding ActionMailer to be overkill, but Net::SMTP to be…um, underkill? Envious of PHP's mail(), which sends an email with a single function call? Then take a deep breath, relax, and gem install pony."
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A double-ended USB device that will run a migration assistant from PC computers to macs.
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