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Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson

This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs.

Scott Adams shares the one goal he focuses on that serves the multiple priorities in his life.

The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main goal: energy. I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities. Maximizing my personal energy means eating right, exercising, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep, and all of the obvious steps. But it also means having something in my life that makes me excited to wake up. When I get my personal energy right, the quality of my work is better, and I can complete it faster. That keeps my career on track. And when all of that is working, and I feel relaxed and energetic, my personal life is better too.

I am… via Flickr Blog. Iamaustin published the photos from this lovely project in his photostream.

The Scale of the Universe 2

Bobby Neel Adams spliced together photos of six individuals from when they were children and adults to make these interesting Age-Maps.

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, spoke to Stephen Hackett of 512pixles about why he chooses text as his medium of choice.

Text is an amazingly versatile medium. Relative to other media, text has very low production costs, both in authorship and distribution. One person can produce a great essay or even a complete book. It’s much harder to be a one-person filmmaker. And since text as a medium does not have a fixed timescale like audio and video, it can be easily skimmed or read at any desired speed. In the digital world, text becomes even more useful. It takes up almost no space by today’s standards, it can be easily indexed and analyzed, and tools like mine can edit, restructure, and reflow it to do all sorts of different things. The ease of producing, distributing, and messing around with text has resulted in an effectively infinite supply of great expression, information, and entertainment being written and read in this wonderful medium. Whatever you want to read, there’s already more of it than you could read in a lifetime, and there’s probably more being produced right now.

This Venn Diagram from New York Magazine shows an incredible amount of overlap in the titles and themes of various reality show.

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Afghanistan – touch down in flight by Augustin Pictures

As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.

Be sure to watch it in full screen.

If there’s no good reason to use the feature, why have the feature?

(by Jason Robb)

Rand Fishkin from Moz and Dharmesh Shah from HubSpot launched a Hacker News like site for marketers, Inbound.org.

I hope the community and content quality of this site is up to the standards of it muse.

I’ve never paid for cable, but this chart alone should make cutting the cord easier.

(via Why I want to quit cable)

There a lot more of these prints by Niege Borges to enjoy, including ones from Little Miss Sunshine, Flight of the Concords, the chicken dance from Arrested Development, and Elaine’s dance in Seinfeld.

The method of creating this Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper is quite fascinating:

These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time. I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section.

A Brief History of Computing Platforms (by AsymcoInteractive)

Read more about the background of the analysis.

Pop Chart Lab has this detailed diagram of many classic cocktails.

This definitive guide to classic cocktails breaks down 68 drinks into their constituent parts. Follow the lines to see where spirits, mixers, and garnishes intersect to form delightful concoctions. This massive movie poster-sized print contains over 40 types of alcohol (from distilled spirits to bitters), mixers from raspberry syrup to egg white, and garnishes from the classic olive to a salted rim. This obsessively detailed chart also includes the ratios for each drink, as well as the proper serving glass, making it as functional as it is beautiful. Over a year in the making, this is Pop Chart Lab’s most elaborate chart ever.

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Rules of engagement. I think I may need to make these a wallpaper or transcribe them onto a Post-It or something.

Superbowl Twitter mentions visualized on Hotspots.io

Dress Pant Sweatpants from Betabrand

I doubt I could get away with these at the office, but I am so glad they exist.

To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data

According to Eric Felten, in his WSJ.com review of the book New by Winifred Gallagher,

Creativity flourishes best when part of a tradition. The new ideas that succeed are those that stick around long enough to become old.

He sees what’s new as part of a long line of creative works, one springing forth from another. For all the interest our society shows for the new and improved gizmo, we still have a strong nostalgia for the old, for the traditional, for the new thing that reminds us of the old.