The Embarcadero today is one of the jewels of San Francisco. The recently rehabilitated Ferry Building – now full of 4-star restaurants, a premium food court, high-end law offices and the snazziest farmers market in the Bay Area – is the cornerstone of the rejuvenated waterfront. To the south, the Giants ballpark launched the rebirth [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Tufte tackles the iPhone
via This is actually a couple of years old. But Tufte’s evaluations remain spot-on. He lauds the photo app’s absence of ‘computer administrative debris’, and I like his suggestion to make the Mobile Safari button bar partially transparent. In addition, his comments about the weather app being both beautiful and thin resonate with me. It [...]
On the street: 1956 Oldsmobile Super 88
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Bonus Infographic of the Week: Crayola’s Crayon Colors, 1903-2010
via via It seems that the number of colors offered by Crayola have an average annual growth rate of 2.56%. Or, to put it simply, we have Crayola’s Law: The number of colors doubles every 28 years!
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Infographic of the Week: Your Looks and Your Inbox
via Dating site OkCupid takes a scientific look the impact of your attractiveness on your online activity. This graph shows the (unsurprising) bottom line: if you are good looking, you’re going to get a lot more action. Or, as the author states: No matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM [...]
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Espresso, Intelligentsia
via vimeo.com A wonderful, insightful documentary short about the proper means to brew a cup of espresso. I especially love the espresso vernacular our tour guide uses. It feels so technical and precise. I’m not an espresso drinker myself, but after watching this, I want to find this café and have a cup.
Shoulder pads have gotten so much smaller.
Tim Brown, left, circa 1990, and Tim Hightower, 2009 Roger Craig, left, circa 1988, and Chris Johnson, 2009 I like the new fitted style better, but I wonder why they have shrunk so much. Technology? Or were the old shoulder pads unecessarily huge?
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