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Militant arm of the infoviz movement gets serious about PowerPoint

By Mark Goetz. (Thanks, PeaceLove)

SXSW Scenes: Hot Dogs, Hare Krishna and Rock

Characters of every stripe fill the streets of Austin, Texas, during the annual South by Southwest music festival. Oh, and there are some bands, too.

In the Makers Market: Posc pocket audio oscillator kit

From the UK's Sonodrome, the Posc handheld electronic musical instrument:

The Posc is a battery powered, pocket sized oscillator. It has two square wave oscillators, one of which is controlled by changes in the user's skin resistance over two metal contacts. The pitch of the second square wav…

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How I Became (Mostly) Google-free in About a Day

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on twitter or identica.

Are we too reliant on Google’s services? As long-time readers know, I love Google’s products and use them daily, as they’re absolutely the best I’ve tried in their categories: Google search, Gmail, Google Chrome browser, Google Reader, G…

Fast Company

3-D Printed Shoes: Quite the Feet

You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it's actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren't more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master's thesis at ArtEZ in Arnhem, The Netherlands, Pauline Van Dongen created…

Get Rich Slowly

Reader Story: I Bought a Fire Station for My First Home

This post is part of the new “reader stories” feature here at Get Rich Slowly. Some reader stories contain general “how I did X” advice, and others will be examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. Today’s reader story is a little bit different; I wrote it after inter…

PostSecret

Sunday Secrets

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.-----Email Message-----I have always wanted to ask Jane what comes next. . . Are they truly happy?The two secrets below come from all those collected at the Yellowstone Art …