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All Random Destiny posts covering everything from user interface design, data visualization, information architecture, health, food, news, music, mixed martial arts, and anything on the mind of Michael Marotta.

Microsoft HealthVault and its third party user experience

Microsoft is shaking up the consumer health technology landscape today with their launch of HealthVault. The site allows anyone to sign up and store and share all of your health information and the health information of your family (even pets). … Continue reading

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DC Weekend In Review

1) Sicko It started off with a viewing of Sicko, Michael Moore’s new film, which I’ve started to write about but will go into more deeply as I think more about the core issues and where I feel I can … Continue reading

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Irony, Sarcasm, and Humor in Sicko

I saw Sicko yesterday which is Michael Moore’s new documentary about health care in the United States. I thought the film made its point very well and Michael Moore is definitely a master of using irony and sarcasm to make … Continue reading

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Emotional transparency

Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink” recently really gave me great appreciation for the power of emotions and instant “gut” thinking. If you haven’t read the book, the basis is that our unconcious minds are able to process through extremely large … Continue reading

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Setting Up Quicksilver’s 10 Most Useful Features Part 2

Here is part two of the tweaks and configurations you’ll need to make to Quicksilver to make it a productivity powerhouse. The focus here is on the bare bones steps to get you up and running so you can see … Continue reading

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Setting Up Quicksilver’s 10 Most Useful Features Part 1

If you don’t know what Quicksilver is, go to the Quicksilver homepage to download and see this excellent introduction at Lifehacker. So you’ve started dabbling around with Quicksilver, launching applications and opening files. You know it’s supposed to be able … Continue reading

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Revolution Health Launches!

So this is a bit late, partly due to being away at a conference and other stuff. But just wanted to make the official announcement that my company’s site, RevolutionHealth.com has had its official version 1.0 launch a few weeks … Continue reading

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Back from CHI2007

I got back from CHI2007 a couple days ago and I must say it was a blast! It was my second conference and my 3D Dental Records project from senior year got in as a poster presentation. CHI was held … Continue reading

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I got on TV!

Some of the pages and tools I designed at Revolution Health got on to TV! See below for the video. NBC news in New York, I believe, was talking about online health sites they like. The two sites reviewed were … Continue reading

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Jose Andre rocks my taste buds

What a weekend for food this weekend.  My sister was in town which is always a great excuse go out on the town and try some DC restaurants. It turned out to be a weekend of grazing over tapas and … Continue reading

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Ipacak songs posted

So it looks like my high school band, Ipacak, has finally thrown in the towel.  I was the lead guitarist of the band for 4 years and it was a pretty good run with two albums released and a battle … Continue reading

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Game of Work, Business of Life

I heard an interesting quote/tagline today from David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, in an interview about his Roadmap seminar.  “The Game of Work and the Business of Life”.  It’s an interesting concept because the more you manage your … Continue reading

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