President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Address
It doesn’t hurt to have another digital copy of this lying around. 
President Obama’s Inauguration Address is after the jump.
The Inauguration – A Great Reason to Use Photosynth
There were ~2 million people at the inauguration today, and you can bet that a lot of them had a camera of some sort. CNN put the call out for people to send in photos. They took those photos and used Photosynth to create an explorable 3D mashup of the “moment” of inauguration.
Related: Seadragon, Photosynth
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More Ukulele Awesomeness – Jake Shimabukuro
While My Ukelele Gently Weeps
Let’s Dance
Amazing. Nice find, Bernard!
Taimane Gardner – Ukulele Extraordinaire
Mai Tai Rumble Competition
Eleanor Rigby
Taimane Gardner has been playing ukulele since she was five. From her website:
Taimane has often been described as a musical child prodigy. Interestingly, she developed her extraordinary skills by performing on the streets of Waikiki to help raise money for the poor. She began this at the young age of 11 ….and she continues to do so to this day, now 19 years old.
via Boing Boing
Do Nice Engineers Finish Last?
This article angers me mostly because I can see the truth in it. Has anyone experienced anything similar?
An excerpt:
Stuart is a good guy. Very nice and well liked by his coworkers. And to my knowledge he is very competent as well, having worked his way up from a support engineer into management in a just few years at the company.
Well, Stuart has a peer manager who took care of networks and security. We’ll call him Doug. According to Stuart, Doug was not so nice. He was rather conniving and was constantly taking credit for his team’s accomplishments and sometimes other teams — especially Stuart’s team. Stuart on the other hand always gave his team credit for their work and praised his peer’s accomplishments. He basically ignored Doug, only dealing with him professionally as necessary.
Even worse, Doug consistently called out his team members in front of upper management when things went wrong. If a virus made its way from someone’s thumb drive onto the network, Doug could be heard screaming at employees down the hall. When one of Stuart’s team members made a mistake, he would take that opportunity to teach them and would take full responsibility for the error with management.
Ok, you get the picture. Stuart – nice guy. Doug – not so nice guy. Both delivered results and both were paid the same. Their years of experience were identical and both had college degrees.
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Who got laid off?
If Only I Could Do Push-Ups Like This
It’s worth watching the whole thing through.
Circuit City Liquidating
Prepare for the fire sale tomorrow.
Circuit City is closing its doors. What does this mean for us? Black Friday… on Saturday, Jan. 17th, 2009 (tomorrow)!
Dollhouse – Premieres on Fox, Fri. 2/13 @ 9pm PST
Hooray! Another Joss Whedon TV show for me to obsess about!
Wind Waker Unplugged
This is one of the best one-person musical mash-ups I’ve ever seen.
Tom! I have another project in mind…
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
There is a truly excellent article about the top misconceptions of user experience design written by Whitney Hess over at Mashable.
The List: User Experience Design is NOT…
1. …user interface design
2. …a step in the process
3. …about technology
4. …just about usability
5. …just about the user
6. …expensive
7. …easy
8. …the role of one person or department
9. …a single discipline
10. …a choice
Of course, you’ll have to read the article to get the details.
Nice find, Emilio!
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