Brand Ng

Unintentional ad for 311

I saw this at a construction site and I think it's a pretty good (unintentional) ad for 311.  Might even be better than the original.

Decisions that went into the new Google Search results page

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Interesting analysis by Bloomberg Businessweek on Google's redesigned search results pages.  Businessweek reporters had access to the Google UI team. Among the learnings: there's still no substitute for whitespace, navigation should probably be on the left, and underlining some links is necessary to avoid confusion.  And, then there's my favorite: sometimes, being redundant is a good thing.

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State of the Internet - nicely produced statistics video

Nice updated video on the state of the internet, by Jesse Thomas. Is there any doubt that the Internet sits at the foundation of culture, globally? 

Not long from now, we'll be looking at this video and think how quaint it is.  It would be as interesting as a video on the "state of electricity" or "state of telephony*."  Yeah, we get it.  It's important.  Everyone uses it, and a lot of amazing things happen because of it.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet

* Actually, the state of telephony might get really interesting if and when it starts to decline

Excellent graphic summary of health care - comparisons by country

Really incredible graphic published by National Geographic comparing the cost of health care, life expectancy and number of visits to the doctor, by country.  Notably missing: Germany and the BRIC countries.

National Geographic

Everyone agrees you are the best.

 

Everyone loves a great fortune and there's a rather amazing fortune cookie search engine at: http://www.fortunehunting.org/search/

It's created by artist Laura Young, whose exhibit at the CUE Art Foundation in New York features an impressive hard-copy version of hundreds of fortunes, on a single board, meticulously classified and linked by sentence structure and theme such as:

"You as a subject": You will... , You have...
"You as an object": Follow you.., Awaits you..
and themes including : Future, Obstacles, and Fortunes for Cats.

The exhibit runs until Jan 24th (2009), but check out the website if you can't make it.