November 3, 2009
15 MB Hard Drive! (via 9gag smilelines)

15 MB Hard Drive! (via 9gag smilelines)

November 2, 2009
weird looking clouds back in 2006

weird looking clouds back in 2006

lalilaloba: I could be great fun to be a wolf there maybe… (via reluctantbuddha: ~ Aaron Reed ~)

lalilaloba: I could be great fun to be a wolf there maybe…

(via reluctantbuddha: ~ Aaron Reed ~)

November 1, 2009
Dropular - Dropped by iainclaridge. (via handa)

Dropular - Dropped by iainclaridge. (via handa)

fall at the falls [2007]

fall at the falls [2007]

Code Review (via osnews)

Code Review (via osnews)

“ The World is a book
and those who do not
travel only read one page.
seen a while back in a youth hostel
Halloween Owls and witches in Africa

(via ammph)

EDIT: I blogged this graphic without looking to closely at the numbers shown and just checked the sources D McC. gave for producing it. Since then a good friend pointed out that some of this numbers where wrong and way to high, for example the Seasonal Flu ones where not even close to be accurate. So I looked around and found that “The unusually severe disease” of the 1918 Pandemic  ‘killed between 2 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%”. Fatal Infection | Information Is Beautiful (via aja claudia)

EDIT: I blogged this graphic without looking to closely at the numbers shown and just checked the sources D McC. gave for producing it.

Since then a good friend pointed out that some of this numbers where wrong and way to high, for example the Seasonal Flu ones where not even close to be accurate. So I looked around and found that “The unusually severe disease” of the 1918 Pandemic  ‘killed between 2 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%”.

Fatal Infection | Information Is Beautiful (via aja claudia)

Once upon a time this is how you inspected railroads. Found and photographed yesterday. (via hereharehere)

Once upon a time this is how you inspected railroads. Found and photographed yesterday. (via hereharehere)

Left vs Right political spectrum (via time-loop)

Left vs Right political spectrum (via time-loop)

October 31, 2009
tumblr booo , like it

tumblr booo , like it

Overview of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the North Saskatchewan River w. the Parliment building in the center. Date taken: 1930 (via LIFE)

Overview of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the North Saskatchewan River w. the Parliment building in the center. Date taken: 1930 (via LIFE)

October 30, 2009
Iceland - where the elements meet - By Patulka (via handa)

Iceland - where the elements meet - By Patulka (via handa)

ninakix: Scott Berkun Lecture: The Myths of Innovation (via CarnegieMellonU)

synmirror: Wow I actually spend 51 min and watched this lecture all the way

to the end. There are a lot of interesting stories told and different views

or methods are shown. If you don’t have as much time you still should

watch the part starting at 40 min into the lecture about the invention of

‘postIt’ notes by 3M a Mining company. Scott Berkun also talks about the CEO

of 3M William McKnight and his way of accepting new ideas and give them room

to develop. Some of the options of William McKnight are similar to those that I

recently read in an business magazine. There the question was.

‘What are the most important characteristics of a good CEO?’

One of the answers where, that a good CEO has no fear if there is a problem.

He has no fear to get the best people in their sector into a meeting and look

like an idiot as they tell him what they know or would do.

In the lecture Scott Berkun also talks about the early days of flickr as a game.

If you are interested to know more about that there is a really good interview

with Caterina Fake on IT Conversations.