Sean’s Mental Walkabout

297 - The South Shall Snack Again « Strange Maps
The clustering is pretty impressive

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Here’s what my delicious links look like via wordle:

I’m amused, and love visualizations like this.

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Will your next meeting pass the “blizzard goggles” test? - (37signals)
I need to start doing this a lot more. Meetings suck off way to much actual productive time.

Obama/Clinton support visualizer that rocks - (37signals)
Ok, I’ll stop linking in 37 signals blog posts soon, but it’s impressive how much good stuff is in this backlog. This is a brilliant visualization tool.

Workplace Experiments - (37signals)
It’s reasons like this that while everyone wants to become google, google wants to become 37signals (and I really wish I still had that graphic around somewhere).

Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
The cook charts are just amazing. I’m going to have to check out a few more things on here.

“You have to treat your employees like customers” - (37signals)
In an era where most of a companies actual resource is it’s people, this hits the nail on the head

Dunning-Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge (or skill) tend to think that they know more (or have more skill) than they do, while others who have much more knowledge tend to think that they know less.”

Public Speaker - ActiveWiki
Seriously? Active worlds users only get to hear the 50 closest people to them?

Phusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition released « Phusion Corporate Blog
Interesting, they also support django now. Passenger is definitely a great piece of software.

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