Cengage Learning is on the move:

Real estate sources said the Southport, Conn., developer reportedly has a 120,000-square-foot lease deal with Cengage Learning, a developer of educational technologies and support products that previously operated as Thomson Learning. Cengage will be the first office tenant in the redeveloped Channel Center complex in South Boston.

More at: Cengage Learning lease is a lift for Channel Center

A quick Google search for Channel Center Boston brought up a few pics. Looks like a nice new home for the merged Thomson Learning and Houghton Mifflin.

The Google map below shows that the new digs (B) are only a short walk from the old digs (A). Not that far to move, though it’ll be a brisk walk back to Flour and Lucky’s.

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Good luck to all Cengagers involved in the move!

Here are links to a square icon I created of the Virgen of Guadalupe, as well as a wallpaper for a large iMac.  Click on either to view high-resolution versions

I thought others might like to have la Virgen on their computers, so I posted these images to Flickr for all to download and enjoy.

I got an e-mail from Schmap that my photo of the St. Louis Arch (shown below) has been included on their web site.

Schmap is an online travel guide, and they apparently use Flickr photos tagged with Creative Commons rights to create photo galleries.

See the St. Louis Schmap here.

It’s a pretty ingenious way to grab photos off the web for free.  I feel like a published photographer.

Taken from the side of the Charles river on July 4.

Metafilter linked to an interesting video, in which the speaker (Roo Reynolds) posits that Lego toys are “inherently digital.” The “binary form” and “constraints” of Lego pieces force us to think creatively with some constraint, unlike an activity like painting, which you can smear over canvas without any lines or limits.

Toys that we play with when we’re children can affect our future career path, “in the same way that language is supposed to affect thought.” I’ve recently had similar thoughts – the work I do with content inventories and information design seems to follow the same basic thought pattern as assembling a gray, Mark I Iron Man out of Legos without reading any instructions.

Full talk below – beware that only about 1/30 of the talk has anything to do with the ideas above.

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Bonus link to this awesome video of the secret Lego Vault with every Lego set ever made, which shows several sets I remember as a kid.