Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 8:25AM I just watched Your Printer is a Brat (via How-To Geek) and laughed. And then cried because it was all so too familiar. We put a man on the moon in 1969 but it’s 2010 now and we still seem to have problems reliably getting ink onto paper.
Your Printer is a Brat from CollegeHumor (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1902102)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 11:22PM This week I needed to quickly print out a calendar and although I could have used Visio’s built-in calendar shapes (which would have been both easier and produce better results) I instead decided to use this as an opportunity to show a real-world example of python’s calendar module in use.
The output is simple: just a grid as shown below. Days that fall out of the target month are shown with muted text.
You can download the .PY file called drawcalendarmonth.py in my Collection of IronPython scripts for Visio
Again, Visio’s built in Calendar shapes provides much more useful output.
When you drag the Month shape into a drawing, you’ll get control over several aspects of what to show. As you can see below, it even lets you control the language to use.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 8:58AM
Martin Krzywinski has a cool new visualization algorithm for networks. The problem he’s attacking is the tangled look that networks visualizations tend to get when the size of a network gets large. The distinctive character of his layout stems from the axis-aligned placement of the network nodes.
[found via information aesthetics]
Examples
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 9:49PM Work like this reminds me of what it means to be witness true talent and vision.
Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.
via AreTheMost
I love the visual style. It’s old and analog and digital at the same time and I’d love to see a full-length animated film done in this style.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 6:03PM Redditor CowboyPerfect brings us this troublesome image – apparently found while preparing pancakes for his family.
Read more in the original Reddit thread.
Straightforward analysis should instruct us that things that should be NOT be used together (especially when the consequences are life-threatening) should look very, very different.
Some other articles of interest
Similar Drug Names a Growing Cause of Errors
And on a related note, I’ll just leave this here: UX: Being Good is better than being Consistent