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AgileBoard is an app I made for agile teams. It integrates with Pivotal Tracker to display the current sprint in a task board and generate a burn down chart.
Let me know if you want to try it.
Manhattan sunset
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Gotham Police Department
This is not something you can really see in a picture. But you have to imagine. Lot of wind. Lot of sand flying and running around and fast. and making pretty patterns.
Chillin’, you?
UX Rookie: Evolution of the WatchThis movie page -
Since WatchThis launched, I made a lot of changes to the movie page.
I like to keep the number of pages to a minimum. When we discuss new features with Kevin we always evaluate the impact on the site in terms of interface: how many pages will have to be changed and how many pages will have to be added. It’s often too many.
Alex started a new blog where he explains the interfaces he builds. You should follow it.
I was lucky enough to spend a day on this very secret section of the Great Wall of China, with no other tourist. It was very different from what I expected.
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I moved to Brooklyn.
The Great Wall without the tourists by Kevin Bongart on Flickr.
The Great Wall without the tourists (well, just one)
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An American Drug Lord in Acapulco -
How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico’s most powerful and ruthless cartels.
Vanessa Grigoriadis and Mary Cuddehe Edgar:
On a warm morning in May a few years ago, Edgar Valdez, a drug lord who goes by the nickname La Barbie, woke up in one of the houses he owned in the resort city of Acapulco. In the 1950s, this beautiful beach town was the premier haunt of American celebrities: Frank Sinatra used to prowl the hotel lounges, Elizabeth Taylor had her third of eight weddings here, and John F. Kennedy honeymooned on the coast with Jacqueline. The glamour started to fade in the 1980s, but the city remained a popular vacation destination until a few years ago, when the Mexican cartels transformed Acapulco from a seaside paradise into one of the most violent flash points of the drug war. As chief enforcer for the town’s most powerful cartel, Barbie drove the celebrities away for good and made tourists nervous about straying too far into Acapulco when their cruise ships pulled into port. He felt bad about it, a little, but that is the way of the world, he thought – eat or be eaten.
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