Archive for November, 2009

venice

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

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In the image above it looks as if a boat ferries across to Isola di San Michele. However what you see there it is just Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore. Nevertheless in Venice you may still feel as if Tadzio from the famous film may lurk around the corner any next moment.

Below I make a little advertisement for Piazza San Marco and in particular St. Mark’s Basilica since there are yet not enough tourists there…;)

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posted by nad | architecture, art and design, Film, procrastination, trips | 2 Comments »

microsoft patents and sparklines

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

On a blog of Fabrice Rimlinger it was pointed out that a patent claim has been filed by Microsoft for a rather general class of sparklines. Sparklines is a term which was proposed by Edward Tufte in his book “beautiful evidence” as

“Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics”

(citation from Edward Tufte website)

So it seems I have to pay now to Microsoft for talking about
sparkline

does anyone know – do they take regular checks ?

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prunn

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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