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	<title>Mile Wide... Inch Deep...</title>
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		<title>How Genetics Works &#124; FlowingData</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/03/05/how-genetics-works-flowingdata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love simplicty and you don&#8217;t get much simpler than this visual depiction showing How Genetics Works &#124; FlowingData. Thanks, Nathan, for another excellent post! Short and sweet.
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		<title>How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution &#124; FlowingData</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/23/how-to-make-a-heatmap-%e2%80%93-a-quick-and-easy-solution-flowingdata/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/23/how-to-make-a-heatmap-%e2%80%93-a-quick-and-easy-solution-flowingdata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution &#124; FlowingData.
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		<title>Collection: How to take insects in-flight</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/08/collection-how-to-take-insects-in-flight/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/08/collection-how-to-take-insects-in-flight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
fotoopa has posted photographs and schematics showing his hardware design for taking pictures of insects in flight. While the depth-of-field is very thin (credit card thickness), the pictures he has posted are astounding.
Focus distance can by adjusted to every value. The focus range of the detector is very narrow. 1 to 2 mm at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of Vesper &#124; i love typography, the typography and fonts blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/08/the-making-of-vesper-i-love-typography-the-typography-and-fonts-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/08/the-making-of-vesper-i-love-typography-the-typography-and-fonts-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vesper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How are fonts designed? What are the steps and decisions a font designer must make to create a really vibrant and successful font? As someone who recently started enjoying fonts, I&#8217;ve never really considered these questions, until now. On the i love typography website (one of my favorite blogs and websites), Rob Keller, of Mota [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timelines: sources from history from the British Library</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/05/timelines-sources-from-history/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/05/timelines-sources-from-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British Library has released a new website, Timelines: sources from history, where users can traverse history &#8220;from Magna Carta to Obama.&#8221; From to the website:
The interactive timeline allows you to explore British Library collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Copyright Protectors Like These, who Needs Enemies? &#8211; Brand New</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/05/with-copyright-protectors-like-these-who-needs-enemies-brand-new/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/05/with-copyright-protectors-like-these-who-needs-enemies-brand-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite blogs is Brand New. Each post is informative and enjoyable. Recently, they posted an incredible story displaying the dangers of protectors failing to live up to their own standards. Hadopi, the French agency responsible for policing copyright violations and protecting creators from intellectual property theft is guilty of the same. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award &#8211; Revolutions</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/03/revolutions-r-creators-win-prestigious-statistical-computing-and-graphics-award/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/03/revolutions-r-creators-win-prestigious-statistical-computing-and-graphics-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The American Statistical Association recently created a new, bi-annual award to to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. The committee has just announced the winner (or in this, joint winners) of the first award: Robert Gentleman and Ross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona: TRG/Flying Lizards finish 2nd in GT Category</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/31/rolex-24-hours-at-daytona-trgflying-lizards-finish-2nd-in-gt-category/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/31/rolex-24-hours-at-daytona-trgflying-lizards-finish-2nd-in-gt-category/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying Lizards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rolex]]></category>

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The Flying Lizards paired with TRG (see their announcement) in the 2010 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Their Porsche 911 GT3 came in 2nd at this year&#8217;s Rolex 24 hour race at Daytona. (See the Flying Lizards&#8217; press release and the TRG press release.)
Glad to see the podium finish for the Lizards! I look forward to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paleontologist discovers 3-D secrets of Middle Age designs of Kells&#8217; &#8216;angels&#8217; [Medieval News]</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/27/medieval-news-paleontologist-discovers-3-d-secrets-of-middle-age-designs-of-kells-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/27/medieval-news-paleontologist-discovers-3-d-secrets-of-middle-age-designs-of-kells-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Kells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scribes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t quite understand it, but, according to John Cisne, a paleontologist who studied the Book of Kells, the medieval scribes who illustrated this amazing manuscript employed &#8220;free-fusion stereocomparison&#8221; to generate the intricate scrollwork that can be found throughout the pages. With detail to the point of &#8220;submillimeter precision&#8221;, Cisne, in the journal Perception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Survey Design. Please Stop! &#8212; All This ChittahChattah</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/26/all-this-chittahchattah-bad-survey-design-please-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/26/all-this-chittahchattah-bad-survey-design-please-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[questionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At work, I&#8217;m developing a new survey to ask our new hires how the on-boarding process went. Because of all the terribly constructed surveys I&#8217;ve taken in the past, I decided to take the process of building it seriously. I searched on the web for any guides to building a good survey. One that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compact Calendar 2010 by David Seah</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/24/compact-calendar-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/24/compact-calendar-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Seah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Seah has updated his Compact Calendar for 2010 and posted it for download (both XLS and PDF versions) on his website: Compact Calendar 2010. At that link you&#8217;ll also find numerous international versions and last year&#8217;s version, too. [Note: If you feel compelled to spend $50 on a more typographically pleasing calendar, visit aisleone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seven Ages Of Britain&#8221;: BBC&#8217;s New Multi-Part History of Britain</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/23/seven-ages-of-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/23/seven-ages-of-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglo-Saxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beowful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sutton Hoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BBC presents a new series called &#8220;Seven Ages Of Britain&#8221; starting on 1/31/2010. Each of the seven episodes represents an era in British history, narrated by David Dimbleby. I&#8217;m particularly interested in the first age:
Programme 1: Age Of Conquest (AD 43-1066) &#8211; For a thousand years, from Emperor Claudius to William the Conqueror, the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) &#8211; TargetPoint</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/21/the-ideological-history-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-u-s-scotus-targetpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/21/the-ideological-history-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-u-s-scotus-targetpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Martin (Washington University, School of Law) and Kevin Quinn (U.C. Berkeley School of Law) devised the Martin-Quinn scoring system to gauge the ideological flavor of courts. Alex Lundry applied that scoring system to the SCOTUS to create a fascinating visualization showing the conservative/liberal tendencies of each justice since 1937, along with an overall score [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Staircase</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/17/book-staircase-fubiz%e2%84%a2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/17/book-staircase-fubiz%e2%84%a2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love books and creative design. Unfortunately for some, space is very tight and finding room for their books can be a challenge. Rather than pitching out the books, Levitate (London), cleverly folded their architectural skills and creativity together to make a Book Staircase. The sides are almost flush with the forward shelf edges. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create and Use Barcodes to Simplify Your Book List</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/09/upcean-barcode-generator-barcodesinc/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/09/upcean-barcode-generator-barcodesinc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barcode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISBN]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping track of my books, I have been looking for a simple way to generate barcodes as individual graphics that I could embed in my book list. I think I&#8217;ve found it: Dan             Bornstein&#8217;s Barcode Server, which I found at the BarcodesInc&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Feature: Typekit support</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/05/new-feature-typekit-support/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/05/new-feature-typekit-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typekit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just updated the site with 2 new fonts from Typekit: Chunk for the headers and Droid Serif for the body copy. You can also see which faces I&#8217;m using. Although it&#8217;s an experiment for now, the potential looks tremendous. After I read that the Harvard Business Publishing is using Typekit on their HBR website, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staffordshire Hoard: The Book</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/04/staffordshire-hoard-the-book/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/04/staffordshire-hoard-the-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglo-Saxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffordshire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just received my copy of the British Museum book on the Staffordshire Hoard. Although it&#8217;s a bit shorter than I&#8217;d like (but matches the page count listed on the BM site), it has some lovely pictures, a concise history, and an overall adequate summary of the find itself. Glad to support the work going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive data visualizations with R</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/03/revolutions-interactive-stock-visualizations-with-r/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/03/revolutions-interactive-stock-visualizations-with-r/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stocks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeroen Ooms, a visiting scholar at UCLA&#8217;s Department of Statistics, has been very busy with R &#8212; he has two wonderfully slick online apps where users are able (for free) to visualize datasets using R&#8217;s ggplot. If you&#8217;re interested in R, stocks, or just data visualization, you&#8217;ll find something of real value in his applications.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the preservation of favoured traces &#124; ben fry</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/12/31/the-preservation-of-favoured-traces-ben-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 &#8212; something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin&#8217;s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin&#8217;s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will the Staffordshire Hoard impact our understanding of the Anglo-Saxons?</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/09/26/how-will-the-staffordshire-hoard-impact-our-understanding-of-the-anglo-saxons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the buzz about the Staffordshire Hoard (see also the NYT article on the find), it&#8217;s no wonder that people are drooling at the potential for an exponential improvement in our understanding of the Anglo-Saxons. But were the Anglo-Saxons really a bunch of brutes because most people don&#8217;t recognize their artistic achievements? Does that [...]]]></description>
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