The winners of this year’s Webby Awards have just been anounced. When you go through the many, many categories you’ll find a lot of the usual suspects such as PostSecret but also a few nice surprises as for example Passive-Aggressive Notes.
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Book publisher No Starch Press and Wired author Leander Kahney are experimenting with free, publisher-provided book torrents and giving away official releases of Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod as eBooks. Here are the download options:
Direct download
The Cult of Mac [torrent link]
The Cult of Ipod [torrent link]
A very cool project and clever marketing act by software maker Autodesk:
The BIGVIZ is an exploration in visualizing the Big Ideas presented on the TED mainstage. Two visual cartographers, David Sibbet and Kevin Richards, created over 700 spontaneous sketches of the presenters’ ideas using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro software running on Wacom Cintiq tablets and rendered on a Perceptive Pixel multi-touch display. These tools illustrate the power of interactive visualization to present the big picture to foster insight and communicate ideas visually, central principles of design innovation.
Download the stunning 200 page PDF here (50MB)
The greatest PowerPoint presentation of all time. Now take it and do some PowerPoint Karaoke at your next team meeting.
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