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Maira Kalman pulls out a beautiful work, again, for us in the Times. Jefferson is one 0f a kind – this example just stuck out for me as evidence for his, well, uniqueness. This chart of vegetable availability in Washington, DC, was evidently based on Jefferson’s observations over the eight years that he was president. [...]
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NY Times poses an interesting question of the day: What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter? The article goes on to imagine what would happen if you had an array of little computers everywhere because they were so cheap. Some ideas: file servers, e-mail filtering/processing gateways, [...]
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More intriguing stuff from good old Nate Silver … this time, estimating when a state’s population might be ready for gay marriage, or at least ready not to ban it. Given the complexity of political processes in a lot of these places – rural domination, different constitutional structures, etc. – I wouldn’t venture to say [...]
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