Archive for the 'media' Category

AIGA Conference, Boston, April 4-6, 2008

April 6th, 2008

Notes from Hugh Dubberly’s Talk:Design education must change and change quickly: 

The sensor web
The mobile web
The video web

Really cool products will evolve even more and have impact:Nintendo Wii/Wii-moteWorld of Warcraft (truly bazaar)Macs have accelerometers in themWalmart is requiring RFID tags in every productSensor revolution in micro-harvesting of grapes (put sensors on the vines to track where best [...]

Is it just me?

March 12th, 2008

I don’t really care about the sex lives of unattractive politicians.  However, I don’t understand why Eliot Spitzer had to quit while Mark Foley goes to ‘rehab’ — or worse yet — Larry Craig gets to keep his job and hire more ‘interns’.   Does anybody else see a double standard here? Why do they [...]

World News according to CNN

February 22nd, 2008

Life can throw you curves sometimes, the best thing you can do is just try to keep up. Just today I saw this on CNN’s Home Page World: Did everyone forget about Iraq?” This confirms for me that we’ve totally entered the decline of our civilization. Timely, I think, since we appear to be at peak oil. Perhaps [...]