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Links for 2009-04-01

• The mysterious Buty treatment
  Or, the origins of the modern race-day drug dilemma. From Sports Illustrated, 1960: "Nevertheless, in the two weeks since [Butazolidin] was legalized in Illinois, of the 407 horses that received it 124 finished in the money. Many of them were long shots…. the remarkable reversals of form seemingly attributable to the drug brought some horseplayers to the point of joyful hysteria."
  (tags: horseracing drugs-in-racing bute for-rdmeds)
• Jacek Utko asks, "Can design save the newspaper?"
  A TED talk not just about newspapers, but about the power of design to shape experience and drive customer behavior in any industry. "Design can change not just your product … it can change your company." [Shades of this belief in Stronach's Gulfstream remodeling? I'd like to visit to find out.]
  (tags: media culture inspiration creativity design experience-design)

Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 04/01/2009 @ 7:00 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter