Jon Stewart on BP oil spill

Jun 23, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c
Day 62 — The Strife Aquatic
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

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Apple design fail

Jun 22, 2010 · 
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Design · 
By Vu Nguyen

Jamis men­tions this over at 37signals and I totally agree with him. The key­board short­cut icons don’t make any sense. I rather have the Microsoft’s way of anno­tat­ing short­cuts with all the keys spelled out, e.g. Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Alt-Del (my per­sonal favorite com­bi­na­tion ;) ). Or even bet­ter, Apple could just print the icons on the keys themselves.

U.S. jobs growth forecast interactive from USA Today

Jun 21, 2010 · 
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Maps · 
By Vu Nguyen

USA Today and Moody’s Economy.com work together on this com­pelling graphic that shows the fore­casted jobs growth in the U.S. Here is a bit about this project from the USA Today’s site:

This graphic shows actual job growth through first-quarter 2010 and Moody’s Economy.com’s fore­casted job growth for second-quarter 2010 through first-quarter 2014. It cov­ers every state, the District of Columbia and 384 metro areas, bro­ken down by four­teen indus­try sec­tors. The data are sea­son­ally adjusted.

Click here to view the interactive

Carbon footprint of the 2010 World Cup

Jun 21, 2010 · 
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Infographics, Sports · 
By Vu Nguyen

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The World Cup is one of the most cel­e­brated events in the world with mil­lions of peo­ple gath­er­ing together to rejoice the spirit of sports­man­ship an glory. The com­pe­ti­tion also serves as an impor­tant eco­nomic cat­a­lyst for the coun­try that has the honor to host it. But besides all the fan­fare, the com­pe­ti­tion can also have neg­a­tive effects on the coun­try, espe­cially on its envi­ron­ment. EU Infrastructure magazine’s graphic is based on the data from a report by the Norwegian Embassy:

While South Africa and the rest of the con­ti­nent may be pur­su­ing renew­able forms of energy, the world’s biggest sport­ing event will have any­thing but an envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fit with a report say­ing the car­bon foot­print of World Cup 2010 will be six times that of the last com­pe­ti­tion four years ago in Germany.

However, it’s not just the influx of fans fly­ing in from around the world to see the games, con­tribut­ing to the foot­print, in fact the major­ity of car­bon was caused in the build up to the tournament.

But there is hope:

However, it’s not all bad news. In a bid to cut emis­sions from cars and pub­lic trans­porta­tion sys­tems, South Africa has con­structed the Gautrain, a high-speed rail net­work that will trans­port fans around the country.

There are also projects to reduce fos­sil fuel con­sump­tion such as a US$10 mil­lion scheme to install solar pan­els and effi­cient lights on the streets, stop­lights and bill­boards of the six host cities.

via EU Infrastructure

World Cup twitter visualization from the Guardian

Jun 20, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

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The Guardian built this slick twit­ter visu­al­iza­tion for the World Cup 2010 that lets you replay the twit­ter trends dur­ing a game in real time. Alastair Dant, one of the peo­ple involved in the project, wrote this inter­est­ing post­mortem about how they made that happen.

It’s the end of the week

Jun 18, 2010 · 
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Funny · 
By Vu Nguyen

Here is some­thing to set your mood for the week­end :)

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Not impressed by the acclaimed Cirque Du Soleil in Seattle

Jun 18, 2010 · 
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Personal · 
By Vu Nguyen

Please excuse my igno­rance because I have never heard of this group before we saw their tent on our way home with my bet­ter half, Rali. She later did some research online and bought two tick­ets for the pre­mier show. I almost had a heart attack after she told me how much it cost to place us close to the front stage. My sav­ings for an ipad is gone. I have been chip­ping in every week in hope to save enough money to buy an iPad before Christmas and now it is all gone. Just like that. Gone. Ok, maybe I am dra­ma­tiz­ing a lit­tle bit here :) .

Rali has not been to a cir­cus since she was a lit­tle kid and I have only been to a few in the US. We came through the main gate to a cov­ered area with a few shops for sou­venirs and snacks and was told to go to door num­ber 4 of the main tent to find our seats. The main tent is a half cir­cle with a rel­a­tively small stage in the mid­dle. I was not really impressed by the set­ting until the music came on. Darn it, the sur­round sound sys­tem was good. The lights were good, too. There are a few inter­est­ing parts of the show like beau­ti­ful gym­nas­tics and some extreme in-air actions but the big part of the show is a bit slow in my opin­ion. Rali loves it, but I think I have seen better.

If you hap­pen to be around the Seattle area, you should def­i­nitely give it a shot. It is almost worth the money. You can also check their web­site to see where they are head­ing next.

Here is a bit about the show from the site:

From a group of 20 street per­form­ers at its begin­nings in 1984, Cirque du Soleil is now a major Quebec-based orga­ni­za­tion pro­vid­ing high-quality artis­tic enter­tain­ment. The com­pany has more than 4,000 employ­ees from over 40 dif­fer­ent coun­tries, includ­ing 1,000 artists.

Cirque du Soleil has brought won­der and delight to almost 90 mil­lion spec­ta­tors in over 200 cities on five con­ti­nents. In 2009, Cirque du Soleil will present 20 shows simul­ta­ne­ously through­out the world. The com­pany has received such pres­ti­gious awards as the Emmy, Drama Desk, Bambi, ACE, Gémeaux, Félix, and Rose d’Or de Montreux. Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters are in Montreal, Canada.

Cirque du Soleil’s mis­sion is to invoke the imag­i­na­tion, pro­voke the senses and evoke the emo­tions of peo­ple around the world.

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