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How Donuts Help Us Understand Social Media

Feb 06. 2012

Ed. note: It has come to my attention that the content for the image below already exists. I had seen the Google+ one from a Google+ post, was immediately reminded of the "How Pee Helps Us Understand Social Media" graphic, and made this, further inspired by the comments on the Google+ thread. (I have not seen the Instagram version since I am an Android user and do not have an Instagram account.) As a result, I have decided to remove my URL from the bottom of this image, but will keep this up with the Istagram picture linked: http://instagr.am/p/nm695/ I hope that this is a satisfactory compromise for those who believe this is straight plagirism. Last year, I had shared a small graphic...

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Art/Design, Books, Entertainment, Geek, Movies

Panem’s 13 Districts Visualized [More “Hunger Games” Pr0n]

Feb 06. 2012

A fanatical Hunger Games fan by the name of V. Arrow has thoughtfully and carefully put together a map of Panem's 13 districts, taking into account all historical accounts from the books, and merging what has been revealed about each district with the typography and natural resources of North America. Click on over to aimmyarrowshigh's LiveJournal, where she details the reasonings and processes that went into developing this magnificent map. She also has a small FAQ section which answers, "Why don't you leave big blank spaces of empty land between the Districts? What about the Wilderness?" and "Y U NO HAVE MORE OF CANADA AND MEXICO?" :-) Via Nerd Approved....

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Art/Design, Blogging, Geek, Personal, Web

New Directions, and A Call for Help

Feb 06. 2012

A few years ago, J casually said to me, "You know, you should really make your blog more mobile device friendly." "But that might ruin the design! And you know how hard I worked on it. Besides, less than 1% of my visitors are using a mobile device when they browse on over." Did I mention that J is a software engineer and tester? That he not only once worked for the big G, he is always up-to-date (and most of the times, ahead of the curve) on the latest web trends and companies — e.g., signed up for Yelp and Twitter long before anyone else I knew even heard of them, correctly predicting that they would "blow up" — and is...

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Christianity, Personal, Reverent Sundays

Reverent Sundays: Food for Thought

Feb 05. 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of Reverent Sundays, where I write about an aspect of my faith. This can deal with recent books I have read on Christianity, my thoughts on religion and current issues, as well as particular messages I find touching and/or powerful. I am aware that most of my readers are not religious, and that is fine — you are more than welcome to not read these posts if they make you uncomfortable, enrage you, or bore you to tears. I am open to debates and discussions in the comments section as long as everyone remains respectful. Enjoy! This weekend is a crazy one for our household (and I'm not only talking about the Superbowl). For this reason, today's Reverent...

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Asian, Claire, Education, Geek, Information, Parenting

Why Chinese is Hard

Feb 04. 2012

Most of my readers know that we have been teaching Claire three languages since she was born. And at this point, at 16 months of age, she understands Cantonese Chinese the best, and more than half the words she speaks are Cantonese. I have no problem with this. I believe that Chinese — regardless of the dialect — is one of the most difficult languages to learn, and that our children having a good foundation in Chinese will not only help them more easily learn additional languages in the future (because you use both hemispheres of the brain with Chinese and other tonal languages), it may also be benficial if they choose to study music. I actually took two semesters of Mandarin...

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