“Groovy Motherfucker”

“Most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.”

Outstanding interactive infographic from the New York Times. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans spend their time, sliceable by demographic sectors.

Another example of the “ambient” data-gathering I’m becoming so fond of. Tracks what applications you use, and what websites you visit, and run comparisons to work out where you’re spending your time.

The way you code a progress bar will do more to “performance” than tweaking the process it’s measuring. “Humans do not perceive the passage of time in a linear way.”

Upload a photo of you (or someone or something else) and Time might flash it up on their “Person of the Year” billboard in Times Square. I uploaded a shot of Bacon, naturally.