December 2011
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IBM Next 5 in 5 2011: Mind Reading -... →
New Tutorial on Physics Using Box2D and WCK
I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how you can add physics to your Flash projects using the Box2D physics library. In particular I show you how to do this from Flash CS5 without writing any code by taking advantage of an amazing new library called the World Construction Kit. via blog.theflashblog.com very cool flash physics library Posted via email from...
May 2010
4 posts
Posts tagged "viznotes" - AUSTIN KLEON
A SCRAPBOOK OF STUFF I’M READING / LISTENING TO / LOOKING AT ON THE NET. Posts tagged “viznotes” May 11, 2010 I’m giving some of these notebooks away over on my blog. May 05, 2010 Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes My friend Mike talks about his sketchnotes. We were on a SXSW panel together on Visual Note-Taking. May 04, 2010 » Interactive Podcasts:...
Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource /...
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Notes On The Vizthink Visual-notetaking 101...
Over 100 people signed up for Tuesday’s Vizthink “Visual Note-taking 101″ webinar put on by me, Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde, and moderated by Dave Gray (with great support from Ryan Coleman and Chris Pascucci…thanks, guys!) It was a rad way to spend 3 hours: I taught the first section called “But I Can’t Draw!” that tried to get people thinking about drawing as building or collage...
Posts tagged "viznotes" - AUSTIN KLEON
A SCRAPBOOK OF STUFF I’M READING / LISTENING TO / LOOKING AT ON THE NET. Posts tagged “viznotes” May 11, 2010 I’m giving some of these notebooks away over on my blog. May 05, 2010 Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes My friend Mike talks about his sketchnotes. We were on a SXSW panel together on Visual Note-Taking. May 04, 2010 » Interactive Podcasts:...
February 2010
1 post
The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010 -...
Magazine January%u2013February 2010 Buy Reprint Idea in Brief HBR.org > January%u2013February 2010The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010 When the business community supports an idea, change can happen fast. HBR%u2019s annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions we believe would make the world better. Ranging from...
January 2010
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Cal Newport audio on learning with Scott Yourng →
December 2009
2 posts
Free Technology for Teachers: 15 TED Talks for...
TED Talks provide viewers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary and ideas. The contents of many TED Talks can be directly or indirectly applied to your classroom practices. While you’re on holiday break, you may want to watch one or all of these TED Talks. If you’re interested in learning more about using TED Talks in your classroom, check out Teaching With TED. TED...
Douglas Rushkoff Discusses The Power Of Creating...
Douglas Rushkoff is a very smart thinker. His latest book is called, Life Inc. - How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back, and he has ten other best-selling books on new media and pop culture (including: Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of...
November 2009
5 posts
John Cage on not-knowing
John Cage on not-knowing: mlarson: “I am frankly embarrassed that most of my musical life has been spent in the search for new materials. The significance of new materials is that they represent, I believe, the incessant desire in our culture to explore the unknown. Before we know the unknown, it inflames our hearts. When we know it, the flame dies down, only to burst forth again at the thought of...
Generalist and specialist approaches by Dave Gray)
Generalist and specialist approaches by Dave Gray)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/austinkleontumblr/~3/iVwMb-EhR4c/238334771 Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
VizThink Blog » Blog Archive » Bigger Picture’s...
http://vizthink.com/blog/2009/11/06/bigger-pictures-7-steps-to-drawing-almost-anything/ Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Clicker Is a One-Stop Shop for Streaming...
Web site Clicker aggregates streaming television from all corners of the internet into one clean, simple-to-search interface designed to help you find any show you want to watch online, no matter who’s hosting it. Between Hulu and the various network-specific streaming television sites, you’ve got plenty of destinations you could check when you want to see if a show you’d like...
Untitled
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October 2009
10 posts
YouTube - How To Draw Two-Point Perspective, with...
How To Draw Two-Point Perspective, with Karl Gude ...
Karl Gude answers: What Five Things Would you...
Karl Gude answers: What Five Things Would you Tell a Journalist to Look for to Assist in Illustrating a Story? Statistics, or How Many? Location, or Where? Timeline, or When? Structure, or How? Photographs, or What/Who? via tumblr.austinkleon.com Posted via web from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
Some foods have significantly more Calories than others but what does the difference actually look like. Each of the photographs below represents 200 Calories of the particular type of food; the images are sorted from low to high calorie density. When you consider that an entire plate of broccoli contains the same number of Calories as a small spoonful of peanut butter, you might think...
The Food Issue - Michael Pollan's Favorite Food...
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CU3ER – flash 3D image slider!
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The five ways we sketch
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Speed Reading Follow-Up « Scott H Young
—> Speed Reading Follow-Up My recent lifehacker.com feature has created a lot of buzz over my article, Double Your Reading Rate. But I’m afraid I’ve stirred up a bit of confusion over the idea of subvocalization. Subvocalization is saying the words inside your head as you read them. This is a distinct process from actual comprehension and isn’t strictly...
'Flocking' behavior lands on social networking...
By Web Bryant, USA TODAY ‘Flocking’ behavior lands on social networking sites Updated 9/28/2009 3:12 AM | Comments 67 | Recommend 38 E-mail | Save | Print | ’); } //—> Reprints & Permissions Enlarge By Paul Schnaittacher Sociologists Nicholas Christakis, left, and James Fowler believe...
The Habit Change Cheatsheet: 29 Ways to...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions. But habits can be changed, as difficult as that may seem sometimes. I’m a living example: in tiny, almost infinitesimal steps, I’ve changed a laundry list...
From Sketch to Vector Illustration | GoMediaZine
Hey everyone! Welcome back to the GoMediaZine. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one. If you recall in that tutorial I discussed how to create vector illustrations using photographs as your starting point. A technique of vector illustrating that takes a little bit more skill...
September 2009
21 posts
How doctors are using social media
How Doctors Are Using Social Media - http://blog.ogilvypr.com/2009/09/how-doctors-are-using-social-media/ Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Heart disease prevention
Google Sidewiki entry about CDC - DHDSP - Heart Disease Prevention - http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/test.ccf/id/D1R-ncqoKuNPSu9PVtK1c8Jd4m8 Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Article: The Health Care Blog: Pilots Use...
The Health Care Blog: Pilots Use Checklists. Doctors Don’t. Why Not? By Maggie Mahar http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/12/pilots-use-chec.html (via Instapaper) Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Article: The Health Care Blog: How to read...
The Health Care Blog: How to read articles about health and health care http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/01/how-to-read-articles-about-health-and-health-care.html (via Instapaper) Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Toodledo :: How to use access Toodledo via email
Using email, you can easily add a task to your to-do list, even if you don’t have access to a web browser. You can also send us an email asking for some tasks and we will email you back with a list of anything that matched your query. If you want, you can also receive email reminders of tasks that are due in the next few hours. Setting Up Your Email Account First, go to the Import...
Link from Twitterrific
Su.pr StumbleUpon URL Shortener | Using social media to guide and help you connect to social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, YouTube using social media - http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/09/15/supr-stumbleupon-url-shortener/ Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster,...
Home » Library » College Basics » Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and BetterHacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better Published on Thursday 30th of November, 2006 If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and...
Convert Google Calendar to Excel «...
UPDATE: Now we have a web version of Gcal2Excel! It can be found here. No installation, no hassle! It converts description and location data as well I am not sure if someone other than me (and some of my fellows) needs this or not but last weekend I came up with a Google Calendar to Excel Converter! Yeah, of course there was a need behind this small innovation. I have to log my working hours...
Stuck on ME
Great message about “the Me” times we live in today. Stuck on ME via IBC Sunday Audio on 9/6/09 Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Stuck on ME
To play mp3s in your browser, you will need to have Javascript turned on and have Flash Player 9 or better installed. via irvingbible.org Posted via web from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
AUSTIN KLEON : Blog Archives : Posts tagged 'Mind...
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Tom Judd
Check out this website I found at tomjudd.co.uk Nice visual thinking examples from Tom Judd Posted via web from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
Show & Tell
Dave Gray, James Macanufo and I are working on a book with O’Reilly, Inc. and I’ve decided to blog about some of the content as I create it. So what you see above is a graphic archive from a visual-thinking version of Show and Tell. Most people think Show and Tell is for kids but that shows how little they know. The game below is S&T for grown-ups. OBJECT: To get a deeper understanding of...
Surprising Agreement On The Connection Between...
He suggests that reform of our food system is as important as that of the health system. Cheap food is going to be popular as long as the social and environmental costs of that food are charged to the future. There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes. Pollan uses the obesity crisis to challenge the food system;...
Meaning Making - The Encyclopaedia of Structured...
From GPWiki Jump to: navigation, search A VISION MODEL - THE ‘PIXAR’ OF CONSULTING - The 21st CENTURY ORGANIZATION - WICKED PROBLEMS - STRUCTURED VISUAL THINKING™’ - ‘THE MEANING MAKING MACHINE - 4D™’ - JOHN CASWELL’S ‘JUST THINK’ BLOG - JOHN CASWELL’S ‘QUOTATIONS ARCHIVE’ - MAIN PAGE Friday 11 of...
odosketch
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Finger Painting: The New Yorker Blog : The New...
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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin -- Printout --...
Sunday, Aug. 09, 2009 Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin By John Cloud As I write this, tomorrow is Tuesday, which is a cardio day. I’ll spend five minutes warming up on the VersaClimber, a towering machine that requires you to move your arms and legs simultaneously. Then I’ll do 30 minutes on a stair mill. On Wednesday a personal trainer will work...
The 5 P's
The 5 P’s via Alltop RSS on 9/10/09 Fellow speaker,Professional speaker Patricia Fripp says: ““The best way [to engage your audience] is to be prepared, personable, polished, practical, and profound.” So be ready to speak, be nice to the audience, know what you are going to say, make sure people can use what you talk about, and have some “deeper” meanings in your speech....
Parenting and creativity: Lela Altman -...
Parenting and creativity: Lela Altman - Examiner.com via Alltop RSS on 9/10/09 Examiner.com Parenting and creativity: Lela Altman Examiner.com “Parenting and creativity” is a series focusing on individual mothers and fathers in the Los Angeles area and their take on parenting and art. … Posted via email from peanutputter’s posterous | Comment »
10 Ways to Teach Smart Decision-Making
10 Ways to Teach Smart Decision-Making via Alltop RSS on 9/10/09 Decision making is an essential part of being successful, growing up and living. How do you teach your teens to make smart, safe and good decisions? I think the process of decision making is an important one. Here are a few tips on how to teach good decision-making whether it is an employee, friend or […] 10 Ways to Teach...