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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; pure geekery</title>
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		<title>Beautiful Info-Graphics From 1870</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/06/04/beautiful-info-graphics-from-1870/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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You wouldn&#8217;t expect to find such beauty in the Statistical Atlas of the United States, Based on the Ninth Census (1870) from the Library of Congress, would you?  Sophisticated data visualizations, hand-calculated and hand-engraved, in beautiful colors, prepared by a staff headed by Francis A. Walker, M. A., superintedent of the ninth census.
The display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bare-Knuckled Bucket of Does</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/06/04/a-bare-knuckled-bucket-of-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Lawrence Yang documents the obvious problem with Verizon&#8217;s $100 million integrated ad campaign for the Google/Droid phone.  He was inspired by Nancy Friedman, who is a delight to read.
(Be sure also to read Nancy&#8217;s linked discussion of anthimeria, which is, loosely speaking, when someone verbs a noun.)
(Below: the actual $100 million ad campaign.)

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		<title>Authority, Control, and Trust in Human-Machine Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/13/authority-control-and-trust-in-human-machine-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Automated systems in aircraft reduce some risks at the cost of increasing other risks.  Incorrect or inconsistent applications of automation to complex human-machine systems can have unexpected and even deadly consequences.
NASA Ames Research facility has done a lot of thinking about the proper ways to design these systems.  Dr. Charles Billings, in particular, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Cost of Wind Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/02/the-true-cost-of-wind-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The problem with wind energy is that it drives prices down!  From Bloomberg news:
After years of getting government incentives to install windmills, operators in Europe may have become their own worst enemy, reducing the total price paid for electricity in Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, by as much as 5 billion euros some years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Roll!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/04/25/lets-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Candelpin bowling is making a comeback!  The Boston Globe Magazine is on the story this Sunday, featuring a local star bowler named Jeff Surette:
he just wants to bowl, just wants to take what he can get from the most difficult form of bowling on the planet, a particularly New England pursuit that is as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/29/water-water-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The image above is the National Weather Service&#8217;s Quantitative Precipitation Forecast for the next 48 hours.  It predicts 4-5 inches of rain for the Boston metro area between now and midday Wednesday!
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		<title>Best&#8230;Area Forecast Discussion&#8230;EVER!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/21/best-area-forecast-discussion-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re like me &#8211; and I know I am &#8211; you love trying to understand and predict the weather.  On the off chance you&#8217;re not like me, I&#8217;m reposting below my favorite recent &#8220;Area Forecast Discussion&#8221; product from the National Weather Service&#8217;s Taunton, MA office.  Even with the jargon and peculiar typographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Even Does Black &amp; White</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/27/it-even-does-black-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh-wah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought CRT monitors were dead&#8230;.

LG&#8217;s new retro TV. Includes B&#38;W and Sepia modes, rabbit ears, and knobs for adjusting channels.
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		<title>&#8220;We are born alone, we die alone, and we use the Internet alone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/26/we-are-born-alone-we-die-alone-and-we-use-the-internet-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Christine Smallwood, writing at the Baffler blog, examines the question, &#8220;What Does the Internet Look Like?&#8221;  It&#8217;s a long way from the question to the answer, and the journey is well worth it.  
After noting that many visions of the Internet rely on images of connectedness, she explores the essentially solitary nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Is Fire?&#8221; &#8211; Buckminster Fuller Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/30/what-is-fire-buckminster-fuller-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Buckminster Fuller, in Critical Path (hello, Dr. Hoo!), answers a child&#8217;s query, &#8220;What is fire?&#8221;:
&#8220;Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree&#8217;s log. The Earth revolves and the trees revolve as the radiation from the Sun&#8217;s flame reaches the revolving planet Earth. By photosynthesis the green buds and leaves of the tree convert that Sun [...]]]></description>
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