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This is a NASA-created map, showing the moonwalk plotted over a soccer field. There's one plotted over a baseball diamond, as well.
I found these as part of an NPR story on communicating the scale of things (e.g. floods in Pakistan, the true size of Africa) through design. It's worth a look.
Some of the best-known U.S. companies, including General Electric, Gap and Google, made The Ethisphere Institute's 2010 ranking of the 100 most ethical companies (read our worries about these rankings here) , released on Monday. But, after a government bailout of the U.S. financial system, no Wall Street banks were represented for a second straight year.
We quote Reuters, who sounds like they're quoting us:
Top ethics officials at several major U.S. companies said honest business practices are critical after a brutal downturn that pushed the U.S. jobless rate as high as 10 percent, savaged retirement savings and home values and left many Americans less trustful of big business.
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Matt Webb's presentation at this year's Reboot conference is one of the better things I've read on a design website in a long while. It's about the power of your time and the importance of choosing what to spend it on. It's about design. I'm going to just quote it at length below and recommend again that you go read it.
This is Congressman Fulton, in 1959, and so this is two years before even Kennedy makes his speech -- his speech in 1961 -- that sets the goal of putting a man on the moon eight years later. Okay, 1959, and there's a committee in congress investigating food in space and they're interviewing a witness from the Department of Agriculture.
And Fulton is getting frustrated with their lack of vision and imagination. And he's a politician remember, not a designer, but he comes out with this just incredible statement, this incredible macroscope actually, and, well, let me read it to you.
"Possibly in space the approach to vegetables might be different." This is Fulton speaking by the way, asking a question. "Did that ever strike you--because we are thinking of three-dimensional vegetables, maybe in space, where you have a lot of sunlight, you might get a two-dimensional tomato."
Get this, listen to what he says...
"It might be one million miles long and as thin as a sheet of paper, aimed towards the sun -- a tomato."
And apparently there's just total silence. Everyone is totally stunned. And the witness just says, "It is an interesting thought," and they all move on.
