Yearly Archives: 2006
All agog over Twitter
There’s apparently a “solution” out there that’s just right for me and it’s called Twitter. Sadly I’m having a hard time coming up with the right problem for it to solve. As of now, I’m thinking it involves me not having a novel way of showing off my dog Clyde.
Here’s a short description I found [...]
It probably shoots out sparks
The little box under my desk that makes the internet work died; sorry for the downtime. Shopping around for a replacement I got to see a lot of antennae since everything is wireless these days.
One in particular stood out.
If only it were green, reminded me of something else.
Antenna are pretty interesting actually, as [...]
Itching a scratch with Python, del.icio.us and 3×5 index cards
Once again I found myself at a bookstore, so overwhelmed with choice I forgot what I was looking for. Never again. With some help from effbot, ReportLab and my trusty Python, I whipped up this, what-to-read.py.
In a nutshell, this little script grabs up to 15 items recently tagged “readinglist” from my del.icio.us account, applies some [...]
Ambient Audio
In the article Ambient Signifiers at Boxes and Arrows, Ross Howard describes how the Tokyo rail system uses audio cues to help folks reach the right destination. While the article isn’t focused on ambient audio—Ross only uses it as an example of ambient design possibilities—it got me thinking about what’s happening in the ambient audio [...]
Good Old Days
I have an awful lot of archived weblog items dating all the way back to 2000 or so. In those days I used the weblog more like a link dump so just publishing them as-is wouldn’t make much sense, no context, meaningless. To get some sort of use out of them I’ll reference, when appropriate, [...]
The Purr of 248hp at 185kW
If the Prius or the Honda Hybrids aren’t doing it for you, check out what the folks at Tesla Motors are building. Pretty amazing & impressive engineering. I saw a nice presentation from JB Straubel (Tesla’s CTO) and Bill Moggridge (IDEO, Tesla design consultant) where they outlined some of the decisions that went into the [...]
Is it even a meal?
I’ve watched Bourdain’s Decoding Ferran Adria a few times now; incredibly fascinating. What Adria is doing reminded me of a bit I once read from DeBono about vertical and lateral thinking:
Logic is the tool that is used to dig holes deeper and bigger, to make them altogether better holes. But if the hole is in [...]
Leopard, Interactive Cities and SRL
It’s been a slow hot summer and now it’s payback. Here’s your schedule for the week of August 7-13.
Interactive City Summit on the 7th & 8th.
ISEA2006 from the 7th until the 13th.
Survival Research Labs on the evening of the 11th.
WWDC06 from the 7th until the 11th.
Going to go? Let [...]
A long love affair