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	<title>Timothy M. Kunau</title>
	<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org</link>
	<description>Visualization, Life Sciences, and Enterprise Architecture</description>
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		<title>Nature Methods issue on Visualizing Biological Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The organizers of the EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (a conference I&#8217;m very sad to miss as it is occurring this week!) have been working with a group of scientists to prepare a series of reviews on visualizing biological data. These reviews have been published in a supplementary issue of Nature Methods (Volume 7 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/visualization/nature-methods-issue-on-visualizing-biological-data/</link>
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		<title>Tsunami Visualization</title>
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An early morning earthquake shook the central coast of Chile today, killing over 700 people and injuring thousands more. The Magnitude and location of the quake prompted tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific. The details are as follows:

2010/02/27 06:34:14 (UTC)
Preliminary Magnitude: 8.8
Latitude: -36.1 Longitude: -72.6
Location: near the coast of central Chile

It is interesting to see the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/visualization/tsunami-visualization/</link>
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		<title>Book: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Finished the book. Review in progress, somewhere between zero and infinity. Each chapter begins with a quote to set the tone. Here is my favorite:

&#8220;When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/books/book-zero-the-biography-of-a-dangerous-idea/</link>
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		<title>iPad Wonderment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time today exchanging Tweets and Email with friends about Apple&#8217;s new iPad and I think we&#8217;re on the same page. While I think it would be fun to have, much of the function is found in my iPod touch in a far more portable format. 
The iPad does not replace my MBP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/macintosh/ipad-wonderment/</link>
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		<title>Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora</title>
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The Star Wars of our time? (Spoiler alert.)
(See also: scifiwire.com: Making of Avatar)
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		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/avatar-creating-the-world-of-pandora/</link>
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		<title>Book: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dan Pink&#8217;s book outlines the &#8217;six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend&#8217;. The era of left-brain dominance (L-directed thinking) will give way to those who are more right-brain oriented (R-directed). Individuals who develop their sense of inventiveness, empathy, and meaning will step into prominence. 
Many technical careers in IT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/books/book-a-whole-new-mind-why-right-brainers-will-rule-the-future/</link>
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		<title>gCal: Add Color to Weekend Columns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are heavy Google Calendar users in our family and it has always bothered me that there was no visual cue between weekdays and weekends on &#8216;Week&#8217; or &#8216;7 Days&#8217; view options. If this bothers you as well, simply edit the userContent.css file for your respective browser and add the following:

/* bluegrey weekends on gCal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/gcal-add-color-to-weekend-columns/</link>
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		<title>Eyeos, your Web-Based Desktop in the Clouds?</title>
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Tinkering with remote desktops as supported by the eyeos.org project. The current version offers few applications including a simple Office-like suite and chess game. While not yet Citrix on the cheap, platforms like this could mature into an interesting VDI option. 
Connectivity will become that much more critical if these tools are to be taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/enterprise-architecture/eyeos-your-web-based-desktop-in-the-clouds/</link>
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		<title>Air Travel no-longer Enjoyable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems another sociopath has found his way on an airplane. As a result, the rest of us will endure increasingly invasive TSA checkpoints and restrictions while flying. According to a TSA press release: 
Passengers flying from international locations to U.S. destinations may notice additional security measures in place. These measures are designed to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/air-travel-no-longer-enjoyable/</link>
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		<title>One day of Traffic on the NYtimes.com</title>
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The New York Times site traffic, US, June 25, 2009 from Nick Bilton on Vimeo.
Site traffic visualization to nytimes.com from mobile and web users on June 25, 2009. Maps and animated data. I simply could not turn away. Design and programming by Michael Young, Noriaki Okada and Nick Bilton.
(See also: infosthetics.com: A Day in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kunaufamily.org/general-interest/visualization/one-day-of-traffic-on-the-nytimes-com/</link>
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