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• Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
  Like skyscrapers in city centers, overwhelmingly, columns dominate Web design grids. Once you’ve mastered the grid as a tool then it’s time to get creative with it. Work on establishing a visual rhythm in your design. Then you can step in and break th
  (tags: design layout resources webdesign)
• Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers
  (tags: article cool design geek laptop mac tech site)
• Photoshop vintage effect | Veerle’s blog
  (tags: photoshop tutorial vintage howto effects)
• Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching
  In this tutorial Ⅰ will show you how to repair some image noise from a low quality shot and Ⅰ will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s face. The woman in this shot is not a model and she has a lot of character so we don’t wan
  (tags: photoshop tutorial retouching howto face)
• new google visualization API – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
  (tags: visualization google api design data programming reference)
• Charting The Banking Crisis – A Boomerang Demo
  Anyone who has been following the financial news knows that banks and other large financial institutions are under a growing amount of strain given the misguided investments in speculative ventures over the past 5 years, including mortgages and exotic cre
  (tags: visualization flash money graph business datamining design)
• Charting the world with Gapminder
  (tags: statistics visualization data economics information politics development)
• Gapminder – Home
  (tags: statistics visualization data economics development information politics)
• Autodesk – Sponsorships – Autodesk at TED2008
  At this year’s TED2008 conference, Autodesk not only participated as a major sponsor, but hosted a lunch on Sustainable Design featuring Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and IDEO CEO Tim Brown as well as demonstrated a technology experiment called the BIGVIZ.

  (tags: visualization graphics ideas mindmap pdf book)
• Google Releases Chart Image Generator
  Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added)

  http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=

  p3&chd=t:90,49&ch

  (tags: google charts api graphs tools chart webdev)
• Buddhistische Weisheiten
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• Sinnvolles im Internet: Die Seite für Sinn und Orientierung im Leben
  (tags: linklist sinn philosophie de idee kraft besinnung productivity self-improvement)
• TED: Ideas worth spreading
  (tags: ideas video technology innovation conference inspiration)

• Bank des Universums
  Auf dieser BANK kann KEIN Geld eingezahlt werden. Auf dieser BANK kann nur GELD bestellt werden.
  (tags: bank spiritualität universum geld glück)
• ZEITGEIST, Der Film Part3 deutsche Version german version
  Verschwörungstheorie? Geldsystem, Finanzsystem, Weltwirtschaft…Was ist eine Bank, was ist eine Zentralbank? Welche Konsequenzen hat das alles?
  (tags: geld money USA video documentary finanzsystem)
• Open data from a pipeline in any application
  The open(1) command (man page) provides a –f option, which open’s own help says „Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit“. But, in fact, you can load the data into nearly any application. Simply combine the –f flag with the –a flag:
  curl
  (tags: hint mac pipe open application useful macosx)
• Seneca’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Finding Happiness
  About 2000 years ago a lived a man named Lucius Annaeus Seneca. He was a man of many talents. He was a philosopher, statesman, dramatist, humorist and tutor/advisor for the famous emperor Nero. Together with Nero and others he ruled Rome during the first
  (tags: happiness lifehack happy psychology)
• Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape
  If you have, then you may be interested to know that Lee was a very famous martial artist and actor who sparked the first big interest of Chinese martial arts in the West in the 60’s and 70’s.

  But besides being an awesome fighter and iconic figur

  (tags: creativity lifehack productivity selfimprovement inspiration psychology)
• Under The Microscop: Code Signing and You
  Apple currently uses these capabilities in a few beneficial ways. There are several pieces of Mac OS Ⅹ which depend on knowing the identity of an application. For example, the keychain tracks per-application access privileges. The Leopard firewall can be
  (tags: apple iphone security drm osx mac crypto interesting)
• The Omni Group – OmniGraffle
  THE tool for anything graphical.
  (tags: software mac diagrams tools graphics design diagram flowchart mapping)
• Brad Wardell on Piracy & PC Gaming
  In the end, the pirates hurt themselves. PC game developers will either slowly migrate to making games that cater to the people who buy PC games or they’ll move to platforms where people are more inclined to buy games.

  In the meantime, if you want to ⅿ

  (tags: article gamesindustry piracy drm business profitability)

• Annotated List of Tandas
  by Stephen Brown
  Using the Classics of Tango Dance Music as a guide, Ⅰ have recorded the more than 100 preset tandas listed below—each on compact disc with a cortina at the end. In making these tandas my objective was to create coherent sounding tanda
  (tags: tango music advice collection cortina milonga lists tanda)

Simplicity & musicality. There is no less, no more. Just perfect.

Steven Brown has posted a lengthy list of tandas, including comments. The music is from his list of „classic tangos“ — good quality to be expected.