Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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Very clever way of passing the time while the upgrade processes take place.
I randomly found this today, and it was just going to be a HEADLINE post. After some more clicking, it deserves to be a real post. Adobe has unveiled their system for creating icons for their current generation of products. Via an Adobe blog, I found this:
That’s how their icons all tie together, aside from the whole 2 letter, square thing. Neat.
But that lead me to the Icon Words Flickr group, where people make words out of the icons on their Dock. For example:
Some people are just bored, I think.
You can tell how far browser standards have come when you see Flickr’s new all JavaScript-based Organizr. It replaces the annoyingly slow (on my Mac) Flash-based one. The Flash Organizr was slick, don’t get me wrong, but this is so simple that I’m amazed. I’m also impressed at the richness of the UI considering it’s all done in JS. (here’s more info on the updates)
This is far better than anything we’re doing at ESPN.com, which is still heavily Flash-based and still, well, heavy. It definitely looks better, but is it worth the tradeoff?
That reminds me, if I haven’t mentioned it, you should go check out Campfire. It makes a great scratch pad, even if it is just primarily IM on a web site. Now if they just would sell a downloadable version, it would make life a lot easier for me.
