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  1. Junkcharts: a great blog that takes bad charts and makes them look better (and more understandable) http://is.gd/59odk
  2. dinner with ABT and Neil Strauss, he is damn good at ordering sushi and kicked my ass surfing today.
  3. it's an absolute zoo at the grove shopping center....recession?
  4. if you're in Venice Beach looking for good cheap food, check out Mao's kitchen. The eggplant is fantastic
  5. early new years resolution: learn more quantum mechanics and string theory
  6. out in Venice beach tonight, I'm thinking we should move younoodle out here
  7. talking to a gay french victorias secret designer about the mathematics of war...life in LA is a little different
  8. Friday night in LA, off to drinks at the sunset tower hotel
  9. in Japan during Edo period there were four classes, from top to bottom: Samurai, Farmers, Artisans, Merchants. A better order than today?
  10. creative industries with massively skewed reward outcomes. i.e. Most startups/movies fail, but some are amazing successes
  11. Interesting dinner last night with director Charley Matthau. Talked about similarities between startup world and movie industry
  12. the = notation was invented by Robert Recorde (1510 - 1558). He chose parrallel lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle"
  13. big shout out to @chrisalbon for helping me get set up with a couple of blogs today. Chris, I owe you a couple of dinners
  14. sat next to the head of marketing for the Beats by Dr Dre headphones range. Interesting conversation about how the use social media
  15. just landed at LAX. Thanksgiving down in LA this year. Got my suit, got my boardshorts, should be an interesting few days
  16. London Underground map in 1933 was the first to eschew spatial accuracy for navigational simplicity. Design cues from electric circuits
  17. and to follow up, here's everything you ever wanted to know about the design of the London Underground Map http://is.gd/52tx6
  18. Map of the internet inspired by Patterson's remake of the London Tube map known as "The Great Bear" http://is.gd/52tvz
  19. We live in a beautiful world, here's 25 pictures from National Geographic's 2009 photo contest to prove it. Enjoy http://is.gd/52tlt
  20. The economics of pinball: How to design reward algorithms to extract the maximum amount of cash (via @kottke) http://is.gd/52tf4