.: Above The Aether :.

Data visualizations fascinate me like fish tanks enthrall cats.  This is an interesting map of Walmart’s growth across the United States.  I think the designer choose to make the stores green dots on purpose…
What do you think?
Link to the dynamic map (requires Flash).
- Dave

No, this is not a pill or a new type of underwear, it is a website that tracks the price of gas by county across the United States.  Green is good.  Red is bad.
Check out Gas Buddy here.
- Dave

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Are you an original gangster livin’ in the ‘hood? Show all your dope homies that you know what style is, yo. Show them your Kellogg Brand Under the Hood threads*.

* Kellogg North America Company is not responsible for your continued good health should you wear these clothes “in the hood.” Odds are [...]

I got a great piece of news today via the magical interwebs. Cactus Music is back in business and will be celebrating their grand re-opening tonight with some live music. I wrote about Cactus Music closing their doors over 2 years ago and was a little disappointed by the announcement.
Houston Calling, a great [...]

If you are currently unemployed and desperately looking for work, please file this story under “quit your bitching.”  The photo above is of a job fair in China.
Link (via Digg)
-Dave

I’m not sure this will be interesting to anyone, but I felt compelled to describe my love-hate relationship with email as a form of communication in the workplace.
I hate email.
You see, I get around 300-500 emails every day at work.
About a third of these are generated by automated server processes and are filtered into folders [...]

The good news: Bryan and I have a business name and a product name as well.
The bad news: I can’t tell you what they are yet.
As soon as we register both, I’ll spill the details in the blog.
-Dave
P.S. - I’m pretty excited about all this.

Bryan and I have been working on names for our internet-based company over the last week or so. We’re both toying around with silly names, but I found a resource online with some advice on company names. Here’s some advice:

It’s easy to remember
It’s easy to spell and requires no explanation
It describes your business [...]