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A Style Guide Guide | elyse holladay

At my job, I’m one of two designers. My coworker is an incredibly talented designer, but comes from an agency background, and doesn’t code. http://www.elyseholladay.com/2012/07/16/style-guide-guide.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?pagewanted=3 Those accommodations were better than many of the company’s dorms, where 70,000 Foxconn workers lived, at times stuffed 20 people to a three-room apartment, employees said. Last year, a dispute over paychecks set off a riot in one of the dormitories, and workers started throwing bottles, trash cans and flaming paper from their windows, according to witnesses. Two hundred police officers wrestled with workers, arresting eight.

Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598 16 January 2012 Last updated at 03:50 ET Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time.

Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work . http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
We just announced our $1 million MailChimp Integration Fund . It’s sort of inspired by Ycombinator , except there’s no equity involved.

Launches $1 Million Integration Fund

http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-1-million-integration-fund/
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) Originating as a BBC radio series in 1978, Douglas Adams's inspired melding of hippy-trail guidebook and sci-fi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing phenomenon.

1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy (part one) | Books

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-one
Sir Richard Branson, the business tycoon behind the Virgin conglomerate, has been trying to get paying customers into space for years. His Virgin Galactic company was founded in 2006, and in 2009 construction began on Spaceport America, the Norman Foster-designed facility in New Mexico that flights will launch from. And now we finally have a look inside the spaceship itself. The BBC's Richard Scott has become the first journalist to poke around what will probably become humanity's first commercial spaceship. http://www.good.is/posts/a-first-look-inside-the-virgin-galactic-spaceship

A First Look Inside the Virgin Galactic Spaceship - Transportation - GOOD

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Scaling Instagram: How the Photo Sharing Startup Avoided Catastrophe in Its First Days

http://mashable.com/2011/03/30/scaling-instagram/