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I like this introduction to decision making techniques at Creative Market .

“Some decisions appear to be relatively straight forward until you take a step back and look at the entire picture with a fresh perspective. You may notice that there are a variety of factors that actually impact a choice or decision that you did not notice before.”

The post also features a nice mind map example from Learning Fundamentals focused on personal actions for reducing climate change impacts.

I find the iPad an ideal tool for mind mapping especially with the power of iThoughtsHD .

Hilarious comic at The Oatmeal, thanks to Better Mess for the link.

Mark Bernstein: Going To Conferences

Bernstein illustrates his argument by describing the photo below, which brought to my attention that so many these famous scientists were contemporaries.

Theres a picture in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Brussels of the attendees at the first Solvay conference in 1911. Madame Curie is sitting next to Henri Poincare they are both examining a paper and its more interesting than the group photo. Behind them, a shockingly young Al Einstein is paying more attention to the photographer. Nernst is there, and Rutherford, Lorentz, Planck, de Broglie, Brillouin, Langevin.

I found quite a few applications that had permission to my gmail and linkedIn accounts that I couldn't remember why I granted.
Definitely worth the small effort involved.
Take 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

This post is a fascinating description of the design of Dark Sky.
I enjoyed the way the development team used a combination of open source tools, publicly available radar data and some clever numerical analysis rendered into a form that allows the iPhone's GPU to be employed. Great read.

I am amazed by this, its an incredible project that uses sunlight, 3D printing components and sand to produce glass sculptures. Watch the video right through to understand what is happening.

Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo. via CreativeApplications.Net Check out the other Best of 2011 Projects on the site as well.

Some fascinating images in the Atlantic article linked below - the long distance air travel proposal may well turn out to be the low carbon future of air transport
What Might Have Been: The French View The French National Library has a wonderful exhibit of prints from 1910, imagining the wonderful new world of the year 2000.

Long-distance air travel of the future

read the full post here

(Via James Fallows : The Atlantic)

Mastering Archimate has worked with T36 in the creation of an excellent video that shows why Enterprise Architecture is important.

This looks interesting - another useful step towards Internet independence.
unCloud — It's not that kind.
(Via creativeapplications)

Check out Douglas Rushkoff's "Life Inc - The Movie" to see why this matters then read Program or Be Programmed

Wolfram at SXSW

The link above is to a transcript of Stephen Wolframs SXSW talk, a mind boggling run down of the incredible computational power that his firm of rolling out.

The potential to harness these capabilities into new types of software is enormous.

Worth reading right through for a glimpse of the future.

Great infographic post at infowetrust via the Huffington Post and macademic that shows the daily ritual of interesting historical figures. Smoking, coffee and beer appear frequently.