Category: words

  • co-op-collective: Design in the Tumblr age.Made with Trendlist’s Trend Generator

  • towerofsleep: jahsonic: the linguistic sign is not arbitrary! I’ve been researching the Bouba/kiki effect more in depth. One of my most surprising finds is that the linguistic sign is not (always) arbitrary, contrary to what de Saussure said about 100 years ago[1] and which is still held as a fact. The image shown comes from the English translation of Cours……

  • co-op-collective: A book containing student essays from a course we gave about critical design.

  • Google Finally Admits That Its Infamous Brainteasers Were Completely Useless for Hiring | Computing Education Blog

    Google Finally Admits That Its Infamous Brainteasers Were Completely Useless for Hiring | Computing Education Blog Google has found that being great at puzzles doesn’t lead to being a good employee. They also found that GPA’s aren’t good predictors either. Nathan Ensmenger could have told them that. His history The Computer Boys Take Over shows…

  • When I read tech writers’ interviews with Engelbart, I imagine these writers interviewing George Orwell, asking in-depth probing questions about his typewriter. A few words on Doug Engelbart (via iamdanw) Engelbart’s vision, from the beginning, was collaborative. His vision was people working together in a shared intellectual space. His entire system was designed around that…

  • Nintendo 3DS friend code.

  • Initial thoughts upon completing The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

    This is the second work by Margaret Atwood that I have read, having just completed the Handmaid’s Tale last month. The Blind Assassin did not end with a hopeful sensation. It is a powerful work. It is a pulp science-fiction fantasy within a lightly fictionalized memoir, within an allegory of power and powerlessness within a…

  • My wife’s publisher has filed for bankruptcy. She has been working for three years on a project she is to deliver in November. We are on pins and needles.

  • Los Infiltradores

    Los Infiltradores Los Infiltradores by MICHAEL MAY JUNE 21, 2013 How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest.

  • SWEAT 3.0 work in progress