Josh Tenenberg, a visiting faculty from the University of Washington (Tacoma), gave a talk to the HCI crew at the School of Informatics yesterday, “Designing Culture: Walls and Mirrors.” Josh used metaphors of walls and mirrors to discuss the embedded influences the impact design.
With a Computer Science background, Josh has a nice perspective of both [...]
Designing culture
Let that be a lesson to, um, dictators
Word comes down from the Internet that Sadaam Hussein will be hanged, officially for his role in the Dujail mess a quarter-century ago but partly for just being an evil jerk. A few thoughts come to mind.
Hey, it’s not my country’s legal system, but there’s a reason we mostly stopped hanging people in this country. [...]
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
An object learning lesson in “Think, before you do it,” the theme of Carter’s kindergarten class:
Post- trick-or-treating hanging out, I discovered our friends had a copy of Abbey Road, and since i-tunes has yet to offer any Beatles tunes, I asked to borrow it for our collection.
I finally had time to listen to it this [...]
November Capstones
Capstone came and went today without seeing anyone from my Master’s class talk. Instead of six talks, there were cancellations that whittled it down to just three — two HCI and one Bio. All three were students a while back, only now finishing off the capstone work.
Tara Blazer — I only caught the tail end [...]
Libraries and Malls
Of course, the second child doesn’t get quite the same early childhood as the first. Instead of the standby advice, “sleep when the baby sleeps,” you get, “bribe your way back into your firstborn’s heart while the baby sleeps.”
We do just as many outings, it’s just rare that I take two boys someplace where quiet [...]
Chris has been Wikipediafied
It was only a matter of time. Chris Soghoian has become a Wikipedia article.
As I noted earlier (”Send Chris Money”), Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) had his own article edited to include a blurb on his initial call for Chris’s arrest. On Sunday, someone handled “Manc ill kid” started a page on Christopher Soghoian. It has [...]
Da Bulls
After this great start to the 2006-2007 season, are there any doubters that the Bulls got a good deal in signing Ben Wallace? We also got news of another smart contract to seal up sparkplug Kirk Hinrich for another five years.