October 2010
2 posts
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“First let us remove all negative thoughts from our minds and come together as...”
– —Cherokee Prayer
2003 was the worst year of my life because it was consumed by the project from hell with a development manager from hell. I used to repeat to this prayer to myself before entering meetings with him.
Quotes
For years I’ve been sending myself interesting quotes I encounter. I think I’ll start posting them here instead of in mail
July 2010
1 post
Constellational Thinking →
Omigosh…I’ve been using this phrase in numerous conversations for at least 4 years, usually when attempting to describe how I seem to process information and think, in contrast to the linear thinking which is more prevalent and encouraged in my profession. I’ve never heard anyone else use this phrase…it excites me that others have applied the same phrase and metaphor to...
December 2008
2 posts
Using games for business →
November 2008
3 posts
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media... →
This gives me hope →
October 2008
3 posts
Visual Complexity →
David Foster Wallace Speech at Kenyon
The full speech has many more gems and I do rather like this edit and the one below. It fits my tiny skull-sized kingdom and inspires me to travel outside that kingdom more often.
The following adaptation appeared in The Guardian:
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys,...
Revealing Errors →
Documenting and discussing errors that reveal the technology around us to learn how technology affects our lives. Particularly enjoyed the discussion and examples of the perils of automating news (ala Google News).
September 2008
2 posts
Five ways to use social media to reach people who... →
Food pairings tool →
250 food items and their major flavor components mapped and presentd based upon compatibility. Click on a food item (like blueberry) and you’ll get a plot with blueberry in the middle of a tree of complimentay and similar flavors - the closer the flavor, the more likely to be a good pairing.
July 2008
5 posts
Historian vs. furturist →
Interesting debate/discussion sposored by the Long Now Foundation . The historian in this case is Niall Ferguson, one of the most impressive professors I had the opportunity to take a class from at Harvard.
Wiihabilitation game being created for Parkinson's... →
This is very inspiring. I would love an opportunity to work on games that help people in meaningful ways.
Someday I must go to the Hide & Seek social games... →
Better yet, it would be fun to help organize something like this in Seattle.
An almost unbelievable story of an architect... →
May 2008
8 posts
To Do: Work on details for entering Whirlpool... →
IdeaLab →
Many Eyes →
This project is part of IBM’s Collaborative User Experience research group,exploring information visualizations that help people collectively make sense of data
Funny: How Jack Handey would like to be remembered
“We are gathered here, way far in the future, for the funeral of Jack Handey, the world’s oldest man. He died suddenly in bed, according to his wife, Miss France. No one is really sure how old Jack was, but some think he may have been born as long ago as the twentieth century. He passed away after a long, courageous battle with honky-tonkin’ and alley-cattin’. Even though Jack was incredibly...
http://infodesignpatterns.com/ →
found via Kim’s blog
Seeing Statistics →
April 2008
2 posts
This piece confirms what you always suspected... →
March 2008
14 posts
Nice collection of puzzles and brain teasers →
Review of Simpsons linguistic jokes →
Must attend one of these Hybrid Toy Workshops →
Geospatial technology aiding human rights →
Mexican cheeses explained →
Yikes...this would be quite a premise for a... →
Implanted medical devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated, moving from simple pacemakers to computerized devices that can actively respond to changes in a patient’s condition. One example is implanted defibrillators that monitor the heart’s electrical activity and, when an arrhythmic event is detected, can induce a shock that resets the heart. They also contain small radio...
Catching up on my reading after being sick all...
And happened across this useful post on ryanholdiay.net with tips for smart reading. I was already doing a few of these (and was feeling inadequate about it). I think the idea of marking passages and references as you go is a great one, especially the idea of reviewing them all one last time after you’re done wth the book.
New word: succes fou →
Encountered in this essay revisiting Kundera’s “Unbearable Lightness of Being”.
Innate math skills? →
According to Stanislas Dehaene, humans have an inbuilt “number sense” capable of some basic calculations and estimates. The problems start when we learn mathematics and have to perform procedures that are anything but instinctive.
I'm not sure I get this...
Lawrence Lessing dropped his bid for Congress and is pursuing a “Change Congress” movement, which as far as I can tell lacks any definition. He’s a smart guy, but what specifically does he want to change? Don’t get me wrong, I think most of us would like all our legislative bodies to be as clean as possible, etc. But still, what specific changes does Lessing think will...
February 2008
5 posts
Finally...evidence that the US press is not... →
The growing science of...play →
The Physics of Angels by Trish Crapo
I suspect the world remembers everything—- time and bones and words flung together and me in it, suspecting. If we can believe in photons—-entities that possess movement but not mass, and if the spirit, too is made of light—-then who am I to say I haven’t lived before—-or you, and thus this tenderness? Who am I to doubt that grace is elemental, like fire—-or...
Restriction-free images from Library of Congress... →
January 2008
14 posts
UCanLrn2Rock \m/_ →
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Decision 2008: Blinking our way to the White House
During this season of one primary election after another, I find myself thinking often of the book “Blink”, specifically the part about “Warren G. Harding”. In the book, Gladwell tells the story of Warren Harding, a man whose physical presence and voice so impressed all who met him with their presidential quality that it seemed only right he should attain the Oval Office....