Author: Chris
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Facebook has haters
With the announcement this week of Open Social by Google, the microscope is really going to be on Facebook and how its application platform is evolving. The post below from the Open Innovators blog is pretty critical of the openness of the Facebook platform. I can’t disagree with anything that is said, but honestly I…
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Design Language
Interesting post over on autoblog from yesterday. While the article describes it as an “esperanto” for design, I hope J Mays can be more successful than the UN was. We’ve all seen the elements of design languages across families of products. The distinctive “cross” grill on Dodge products. The sliver slipperiness of Apple products. What…
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Big Pig Face
This past weekend I did something I haven’t done since college…now that your minds have wandered, let me plant you back in reality: I had a pig roast. We’ve had an annual fall party at our place since we moved there a few years ago. It grows a little bit every year and this year…
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Chronology
Maybe those folks at the creation museum are right after all. Nah. IFTF’s Future Now: Chronology
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Social production…of your liver?
Now I will be the first to admit that the ideas of getting users involved in the creation of the manufactured products they use every day may sound far out to some. It of course, seems like its happening every day to me. However the extension of social production concepts to bio-tech is not something…
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Mind Hacks: Organize Information By Developing a Scientific Mindset
Interesting post over on LifeHacker about approaching life with a scientific mindset, specifically as a way to solve problems. I have long held the view that one of the reasons I have been successful in what I do is my engineering background. The engineering method (regardless of discipline) is all about focusing on what can…
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Everything is Misc…in video!
.!. Great video that gets the key point of Dave Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous in about 5 minutes…take a look if you don’t want to read anything but still be able to keep up with the cocktail party conversation, this is the link for you. YouTube – Information R/evolution Dracula 3000 film
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Those 'Polo' shirts I bought in Taiwan
Have already dis-integrated after a few trips through the washing machine. Never really wondered why (assumed they would when I bought them for about $5), but this book goes in to why there are so many RR dealers in China. Chinese luxury market — all smoke and mirrors? – Boing Boing wallace gromit in the…
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Monkey wars
This needs no comment…but it is laugh out loud funny (the death art excepted). Monkey wars in India – Boing Boing