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“Who says doodling is a waste of time? Here are four ways to solve serious business problems with a simple drawing

I love it when I find a treasure trove. 
If you, like me, do a ton of traveling and that across America, then you will probably appreciate this. If you also saw No Country For Old Men and fell immediately in love with it and could watch it twelve more times then go see this site.
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Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories. An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers – the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia – currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second. Exaflop computers would perform a million trillion calculations per second.

So I really like this.
What a simple idea, no doubt there are certain limitations but what
about this – a system that exploits the heat-absorbing capacity of asphalt
concrete, which is enhanced by its black color. The thermal energy
produced is used to cool buildings, houses and roads in summer and heat
them in winter.

A great example of an emergent art form.

I’m amazed that folks are amazed.

Why would the news article below surprise people? Put an easy to use and highly powerful, function rich and above all well designed interface in peoples hands – add – people who now know that they can get whatever information and knowledge they need, when and wherever they need it and bingo – they will use it. Because they can. So they will Right?

The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. “It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.”

I know this is now quite old, but when I first saw this I was impressed at several levels, the quality of the graphic treatment, the way it was told – succinctly – and of course what it was actually saying. I reprise it for the readers of this blog as it deserves to stay [...]

Whether you saw some fact differently and so solved the world food shortage; tackled climate change by using seal skin differently; can now actually say sorry to someone you dislike or just that you actually do like Marmite It’s a total epiphany. How often can you truly say you’ve actually experienced this? Once? 5 times?..not often right? That’s because you are totally conditioned not to believe you can do it.

Let’s say it’s Super Bowl Sunday and you’re blogging about beer. You see Budweiser’s blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you’d like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people ‹ and Budweiser, its competitors, beer lovers, ad critics, and your ex-boyfriend can listen in. “You just need to know how to type,” says Matthew Hurst, an artificial intelligence researcher who studies this ecosystem at Microsoft Live Labs. Here’s how the whole process goes down during the big game.