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An Opinion: Designing Outrage
As someone who occasionally does design work I rail against spec work and everything it stands for. As someone who is an objective human being - I have a different perspective. I ...
Concerning the Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox
It is rare that you get to see such a huge list of complex philosophical problems reduced to a six page comic, but Saint Gasoline has somehow accomplished it in his ...
Thoughts on News: Intertextualizing out of the Prolefeed
I've spent a bit of time thinking about news lately. Youtube has an interesting feature. When you're watching a video on youtube it shows you a short selection of related ...
Visualizing Taste in Pixar’s Ratatouille
It's often hard to imagine how we could 'see' abstract concepts, sounds and even taste. People who actually have synesthesia usually taste shapes, so maybe the answer is to represent taste as ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...
Building Community: Featured Experimenters
We've been running the experiment for a little while now (a little over two weeks) and as always, we've gotten a ton of data. More interesting then that though are the kinds ...
Casual Evaluation - Shaked not stirred
I'm a big fan of thinking about casual evaluation. As I think Piaget would agree, humans are natural experimentation engines. We actively continue to investigate the external world to better learn about ...
Returned from CHI / Updates
Apologies for the lack of updates, we've been away at the chi conference. Saw some good things, some cool things, some bad things, and some disappointing things. While I'm always still ...
(Virtual) Earth Day
Google's logo tells me it is earth day. In order to support the planet some people would have you plant a virtual tree. A slightly more delicious (and real) alternative ...
We focus on their head and then slightly to one side.
Stand up comedian Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson gives a remarkable and entertaining talk at TED asking "Do schools kill creativity?" He points out that the values of our educational system ...
Preserving the preservers.
Art is not always easy to keep a hold of. NPR discusses the issues with preservation of digital art. Many of these issues come from the inherent connectedness of the medium. ...
Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the Recycled Canvas ...
Testing Recycled Canvas 1.0
We're going to be doing some final testing on the 1.0 release of recycled canvas. I'm not going to say a lot about it right now, but visually it is a little ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here as well ...
What is the school of tomorrow?
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like. From School 2.0. School ...