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In honor of Baseball’s Opening Day, we thought we’d share our thoughts on Nationals Park, the latest D.C. debutante and the new home of the Washington Nationals. Alleged to be more of a hitter’s park than the former stadium, RFK, it seems more like a gamer’s paradise to us. From the Official website;
“Children [...]

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Given the gloom and doom outlook for the newspaper industry, we’ve never been able to understand why they don’t put the funny pages up front (not to mention why they’re so keen to shrink the Sunday comic strip space in general). In the smash success of Bitstrips, we at last have some concrete, co-rendered evidence [...]

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The relationship between author, text, and reader has never been more dynamic, and consequently, has never been more unstable. Try reading just a small part of the extensive body of commentary and in-depth analysis of Steve Jobs’ Yogi Berra impression. Each piece links to an additional half a dozen or so other articles [...]

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The new path to fame starts with a MySpace page, and the “lucky” ones who make it might eventually warrant a Wikipedia page - the online parking place for footnotes in history.  Only time will tell if Eliot Spitzer’s “Kristen” will follow this trajectory.  Her MySpace page is a quotable source for journalists and media [...]

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We read a lot of design blogs, and consequently, encounter a good deal of theory and rhetoric on the subject.  Along the way, we also came across a simple graphic which speaks for itself, succinctly summarizing what separates user friendly products from the non.   It’s the best bit of information design we’ve seen to [...]

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Radio has been a dying medium for about 50 years, at least. Like most terminally ill invalids, terrestrial radio has managed to survive well passed its anticipated expiration date. It has lasted so long in fact, that an unlikely ally, the internet search engine, may have finally found a cure for what [...]

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Shopping for a new information appliance?  A cross between a mobile phone and a laptop perhaps?  The product your looking for is the Everex Cloudbook; the latest UMPC (ultra mobile PC) to hit the shelves of…Wal-mart?  This $400 “subnotebook” runs on a Linux based operating system, called gOS Rocket, and is designed to function as [...]

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