Using games for Buisness

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for...

Love Casey McGlynn’s work. Wish I could buy this one.

This gives me hope

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...

Revealing Errors

Five ways to use social media to reach people...

Food pairings tool

Historian vs. furturist

Wiihabilitation game being created for...

Great article about waste reducing packaging in Japan....

Someday I must go to the Hide & Seek social...

An almost unbelievable story of an architect...

To Do: Work on details for entering Whirlpool...

IdeaLab

Many Eyes

Funny: How Jack Handey would like to be...

“We are gathered here, way far in the future, for the funeral of Jack Handey, the world’s...

Advice posters at...

from Ironic Sans via Neatorama

Seeing Statistics

Love this idea - cut hydrangeas placed in soaked oasis in...

This piece confirms what you always suspected...

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...

Packing tape as art medium - http://www.khaismanstudio.com/

Catching up on my reading after being...

And happened across this useful post on ryanholdiay.net  with tips for smart reading. I was already...

New word: succes fou

Indo-Eurpoean Language Tree -...

Innate math skills?

I'm not sure I get this...

Lawrence Lessing dropped his bid for Congress and is pursuing a “Change Congress”...

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 togetherand me in it,...

Restriction-free images from Library of...

UCanLrn2Rock \m/_

Decision 2008: Blinking our way to the...

During this season of one primary election after another, I find myself thinking often of the book...

Sculpted Book in Bell Jar at Via Maris NYC

Cooking: Mixed Vegetables in Coconut Sauce

I've been creeped out by Tom Cruise since the...

Personal MBA...I see lots of late nights of...

This blog's funny...I must return often.

Good to know: Edibility of Plants

Slide from designer Stefan Sagmeister’s presentation...

“Happiness exists in action, it exists in telling the truth...”
— Eve Ensler in TED talk...

The dirty work of happiness

Sometime last year, maybe in the midst of crazy dynamics at work, I started thinking about how...

Our trip to Florida

“The doors of the year open, like the doors of language, onto...”
— Octavio Paz

Phun with Photos at Big Huge Labs

Interesting sites I visited today

Excellent origami at: http://paperunlimited.wordpress.com/ Ransom Note Generator :...

If only I'd know about these holiday cards

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

Can really get sucked in by this comic…it’s a good read.  You have to read the frames...

Should have looked around first

Sure enough others long for wii-mote goodness on Second Life…and have made it work...

Is it time for a Wii-like Second Life?

I’ve been playing with and reading about Second Life(SL). Everything I read about SL mentions...

“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and...”
— Martina Navratilova

New Find: SignandSight.com

I often wish I was fluent in several languages. It seems like the more languages you know, the more...

Pet Peeve: Managing Favorites in...

Why can’t browsers just use tags for favorites??? Why on earth do I have to come up with a...

Something to noodle on: Does the 80/20...

At some point, I learned about the Pareto principle (the principle that 20 percent of something...

To Do: Explore Librivox

Love this idea of people recording books that are in the public domain. I used to volunteer...

Board Game Reviews

This photo is ripe for so many captions. From here:...

This inspires me to think even more about...

To Do: A weekend visit to Craftland

Dec1-22 in Providence http://www.craftlandshow.com/

To Do: Make a theremin

Make has a post on how to make one in a weekend. I should probably allow 2 weekends.

Would love to see Paul Hayes’ work in person, until...

To Do: Visit LAB in Allston

Just found out about  LAB in Allston. I’ve been surprised at how few stores carry vinyl/plush...

A Brief Message - Thinking about making...

Glassbooth

It's as if the author knows Curtis

To Do: Start going to Berkman lunch...

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/

This looks like a space to watch

Looks like fun whether you're riding or...

Amazing how people who contribute so little...

Ffffound

The fabrication revolution

How Stuff Is Made

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
— Jeannette Rankin

Unplugged fun projects for kids

Make a manga avatar here:...

Make a profile thumbnail here:...

Good Challah Recipe

Measurement Equivalents

Want to see this Louise Bourgeois exhibit before it leaves...

Would love to catch Geletin’s work in person someday.

The problem with "designers"

Today in my design class I mentioned that the design process of the architect is sort of a mystery...

“Evolution favours what is good at replicating itself, rather...”
— John Kay ( Culture and...

I like Picnik

http://www.picnik.com/app#/home

Inspirational woman Geetha Narayanan...

Five years ago she started opening “store-front” schools in the slums of Bangalore. The...

Today I bought a broom. And made my way across town to a class that unbeknownst to me, was cancelled...