From Patricia Fara’s Science: A Four Thousand Year History: Armed with impressive arrays of accurate instruments, [Alexander von] Humboldt demonstrated that accumulating meticulous measurements could reveal patterns in nature’s vagaries, and so impose mathematical order on variable phenomena such as air pressure, magnetism, and plant distribution. Figure 33 [above] shows his visual argument that there [...]
I get a chuckle every time I come across this Creative Commons’ed web 2.0 graphic I created over 4 years ago as the result of a conference non-sequitur. The above is from a LinkedIn group with 1,800+ members.
The first is by Andrew Abela from his book Advanced Presentations by Design. Also available in Hungarian. The second is from Dan Roam’s book The Back of the Napkin. And of course, what you really came for.
This venn diagram on How to be Happy in Business from Bud Caddell is making the rounds, and remember-worthy enough for me to post it here: Pair that with the other useful chart I like, Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix (or Urgent/Important Matrix)—this one from AwakeBlogger :
I made a simple chart of approximate seed planting times for Boston (USDA Zone 6). You can download a printable PDF of the planting chart. Today I put together a simple raised bed in my backyard. I built it along the same design as the Food Project’s Build-a-Garden Program’s planter—which my landlord participated in last [...]
Lately I’ve been spending more time than I should with a great free/open source software illustration program: Inkscape. Before I get to far into an explanation of the fun and wonder I have with Inkscape let me make a little caveat. I’ve used Adobe Illustrator in the past and never liked it much; I admit [...]
