Cory, like Eduardo pointed it out, the name of the city is "São Paulo". Probably because I'm Brazilian-American, this is a pet peeve of mine.

I don't mind you dropping the tilde, since we are in 'merca, and accents is hard. So, "Sao Paulo" is fine.

I'm not sure why, though, so many people spell it "Sao Paolo", mixing Portuguese and Italian, but they do. Annoying!

Congratulations, Cory! What a beautiful baby. Thank you for sharing her with us.

[#40, Nex]Thank you!
I was about to make a couple of the many points you made, but not as eloquently or succinctly. You clearly understand audio and compression.

Yes, MP3s can deal with dynamic range. :)

I agree, the toy is very cool. My 19-month-old would love it. I have to point out the two items borrowed from Disney, however:

1. The line "a pirate's life for me" is from the Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride and movies theme song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)". Why did they bother to write it on the ship? It's not like it adds anything. The target audience for this can't read, yet. It adds a cheesy stolen element to an otherwise fine toy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Ho_(A_Pirate's_Life_for_Me)
http://www.toucans.net/Pirate/yoho.html

2. The article's link points to they toy's page at Genius Babies, who stole their own name and logo from Baby Einstein, a Disney property.

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p194/psgomes/similar/GeniusEinstein.gif

Also, since this is about the toy. Jack Rabbit Creations also makes a Boing Boing Ducks and a Boing Boing Mice. Both are nice, but not as cool as the pirates.

http://www.geniusbabies.com/boing-boing-ducks---jack-rabbit-creations.html
http://www.geniusbabies.com/boing-boing-mice-by-by-jack-rabbit-creations.html

I agree with the "good enough" votes.

Is it an elegantly designed graph that quickly conveys the information you need? hmmm...yes and no.

The longer you look at it, the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

If all you want to know are the good (or bad) hours to shop at Ikea, then it works. Find the green (or red) slice, and see what time it starts and ends. This is what the designer had in mind.

If you're trying to figure out the store hours from the graph, which (hopefully) wasn't a design goal, then it fails. You need to think about it, compare graphs and assume the 9-9 for Saturday (what if they are actually open 9am-10pm?).

Wow, Knitty-cat. Amazing work. His face, fists, too-tight shorts, toes, everything...perfect!