The Human Body as a Subway Map - information aesthetics

Preview Of The New Western Ticket Hall King's Cross St Pancras

Sam Loman [just-sam.com] created an original take on illustrating the inner structure and workings of the human body as the tight intertwining of different systems (e.g. arterial, digestive, musculetal, respiratory, etc.), by way of a subway map metaphor.
via infosthetics.com

 

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Why you are not thirsty while sleeping

New research suggests the body's internal clock is what prevents you from becoming dehydrated and needing to drink during sleep.

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Don't Hit F1 in Windows If a Web Site Asks You To

A dialog pop-up that convinces the user to hit F1, the commonly known "Help" button, could then run code on the machine, which would lead to, well, all kinds of unfortunate things.

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InterACT With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design | The Web Standards Project

Crafted by the education luminaries that brought you the revolutionary InterACT curriculum, the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, and the experts that power The Web Standards Project, this book is the definitive guide to the best practices every web professional needs to master to succeed in their career.

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Action streams: a blue sky proposal

The basic idea is for a distributed and decentralized stream schema that would permit posts not only to share activity updates across social networks, but to enable action within and around those posts also.

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U.S. Department of Defense Goes Social...Yes, Really!

The new policy, announced Friday, seeks to balance the needs of troops to connect with their loved ones via social media while also maintaining an appropriate level of security.

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Dropcam gets an updated iPhone App

Dropcam, makers of $199 wireless webcams, have released an updated iPhone app that let’s you add cameras to your system with a minimum of fuss and muss. Each camera pops up on the app as its started and you can view images over Wi-Fi and 3G anywhere in the world.

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German speedskater misses olympic race because of turned-off cell phone

German speedskater Patrick Beckert missed out on a chance to compete in the Olympics because his cell phone was turned off prior to the start of Wednesday's 1,000m competition. Officials were trying to contact the 19-year old, who was the fourth alternate in the race.

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Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”

The plaintiff in the suit, a veterinary hospital in Long Beach, CA, is said to have requested that Yelp remove a negative review from the website, which was allegedly refused by the San Francisco startup, after which its sales representatives repeatedly contacted the hospital demanding payments of roughly $300 per month in exchange for hiding or deleting the review.