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I was just wowed by yet another NY Times web feature. Baseball fan or not, be sure to take a look at Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers.

The video, How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters, is especially awesome.

All images—NY Times

Hagstrom January, 1940

Massimo Vignelli, 1978

…slowly and selectively filling the voids of my office walls.

I’ve been making my way through this video series called California is a Place. It really is insightful and beautifully made. I really appreciate the care taken in the details of each piece from the lettering of the titles, to the depth of field in the shots and the colors….

I was just reading this article about Apple and Adobe’s squabble over Flash where they compare the two companies arguments with tag clouds of words used—a great idea. That got me thinking about all those books or documents I wish I had or had time to read and all that info I wish could just be injected into my skull in Matrix-like fashion. If I could just have some shorthand visual I could at least pretend that I’ve grasped the core argument of any document I’m supposed to read in full…

Bump that thing up to full screen and see what I mean.

I was away for this, so I’ll post it anyway…

Double-packaged Kenya Gaturiri Reserve roast from Stumptown.
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Video – The New York Times site traffic, World View, June 25, 2009…

Site traffic visualization to nytimes.com from mobile and web users on June 25, 2009. Design and programming by Michael Young, Noriaki Okada and Nick Bilton.