Links for 03-18-2011

• Consumerization of IT: 95% of Information Workers Use Self-Purchased Technology for Work - Interesting data from IDC.
• Delivering Competitive Advantage through IT - Some potentially useful numbers from Intel here.
• NPR Sting: Edited Video Makes Schiller, O'Keefe Look Bad - TIME - "The full video hardly clears Schiller. His opining about liberals' education and conservatives' anti-intellectualism, for instance, still comes off as smug and would have hurt NPR regardless. (The network was still feeling backlash from firing Juan Williams last fall after he said on Fox that some Muslims on planes made him nervous.) But the full picture shows O'Keefe's partisan hit job — trying to link NPR to liberal elitism and scary Muslims — was manipulative too. And it shows how sadly easy it is to take advantage of the attention span and metabolism of media today."
• True or False? An example of Internet illiteracy – Laziness or just plain stupidity? | Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange
• Steve Jobs in a Box - Has Apple peaked? (from 2007).
• SCM Marchant Cogito 240SR Calculator - The first "computer" that I used.
• WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts - Nice visualization of weather history for a locale.
• The Rolodex Logo Shock | Logo Designer - Wow. I assume that this was an attempt to get away from the company's brand image of being the guys who made the round thing for holding addresses. But the new logo looks like something thrown together in 10 minutes using clip art.
• The Mad Genius of “Modernist Cuisine” : The New Yorker
• Marco.org - Moving on from iPad "office productivity" apps - Sounds about right. A lot of things that you CAN do on an iPad, you don't necessarily want to except in the most limited ways.
• A Chef’s Fine Art, Now Available in Homes Near You - NYTimes.com - Sous vide from the NY Times.
• Huge incoherent failures: A doomed mansion, "The Great Gatsby" and Fitzgerald's America - "As for America, "its greatest promise is that something is going to happen," Fitzgerald wrote in a letter. That essential restlessness, that search for the new, can yield beauty just as readily as a condo subdivision. Often, in our history, it has yielded both."
• Cutting Through the Bother of City Parking - NYTimes.com - Good overview of parking apps for Smartphones.