Category: Information Visualization

  • With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt

    (via With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is… | TimBatchelder. Related articles With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt (timbatchelder.com) I Wore These Socks For A Week And They Don’t Smell (forbes.com) Coffee-Infused Socks Don’t Smell (huffingtonpost.com)

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  • How to become a hacker

    How to Become a Hacker wikihow.com Edit Steps Thinking Like a Hacker • Adopt the mindset of a hacker. Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you must behave as though you have this kind of attitude… http://flip.it/hfpnv

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  • Hire my friend

    Hire My Friend Makes Sure Your Boss Doesn’t Find Out You’re Job Hunting Alice Truong, fastcompany.com Friends can blast job hunters’ anonymous profiles on Twitter for potential employers to see.You never want your boss to know you’ve got your eye somewhere else. To navigate the dicey job-hunting-while-employed situation, London-based Makeshift… http://flip.it/skawf

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  • This flow chart will tell you which SUV to buy

    This Flowchart Will Tell You Exactly Which New SUV Or Crossover To Buy Jason Torchinsky on Jalopnik, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo, jalopnik.com Some of you may remember the new car-buying flow chartI made a bit over a month ago. Between the comments suggesting I seek out my clergyperson, I noticed many of you…

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  • Adventures in car sharing

    “Catastrophic failure”: Adventures in car sharing, part 2 Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockSharing was supposed to make me feel good. Instead it made me feel like this.The air-conditioning compressor: Sounds harmless enough — another of those little metal widgets bolted under the hood of your car. But under the right… http://flip.it/DcbuJ

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  • Useless high paying jobs

    7 Fairly Useless, High-Paying Jobs Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE Companies pay big bucks to have these folks either on board or on retainer. How come? In my hum­ble opin­ion, the most impor­tant peo­ple in any orga­ni­za­tion are the sales­peo­ple. After all, with­out sales­peo­ple,… http://flip.it/W7Q9L

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  • Survive a terrible boss

    5 Ways to Survive a Terrible Boss Les McKeown, inc.com THE SYNERGIST Working for a start-up is no easy feat. Founders can be, well, jerks. If you’re not ready to quit, here’s how to get through the day to day. There’s noth­ing more debil­i­tat­ing than head­ing into work every day depressed at the… http://flip.it/PNijH

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  • Make money without a job

    How To Make Money Without A Job Deborah L. Jacobs, forbes.com Before join­ing the staff of Forbes in July of 2011, I was hap­pi­ly self-employed for 23 years. For much of this time my hus­band and I ran two most­ly unre­lat­ed home-based busi­ness­es. He worked in his office in the front of the house, while…

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  • The new workplace and the increasing importance of skills testing and online portfolios

    (via How to Get a Job – NYTimes.com) Related articles Are You Only Pretending to Be in the Right Job? (crosstiesolutionsltd.wordpress.com) Are You Only Pretending to Be in the Right Job? (soshitech.com) Job Hunting after Graduation: Manage your Online Reputation (callnerds.com) Advice for Graduating MBA Students . . . . (criticalskillsblog.com)

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  • Tips for freelance success

    5 Sure-Fire Routes to Freelancing Success Lynn Dixon, mashable.com In today’s shaky economy, freelancing is on the rise. In the U.S. alone, one in three workers are now doing freelance work. That’s 42 million Americans going without employer health insurance, 401(k) plans and flexible spending accounts.But it’s n… http://flip.it/xrdcp Related articles 5 Sure-Fire Routes to…

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