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The Proper Way To Fold A Shirt

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Those of you who are already fanatical Jill Sobule groupies have likely signed up to be a member of her Secret Society Mystery Cult (aka, Jill’s mailing list).  And if you are a Cult member then you have already seen this fantastic video of the proper way to fold a shirt (Jill learned of this […]

Design

Visualizing global trends

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Humans have a hard time picturing certain things: long-term consequences, very large numbers, global trends … For better or worse, our brains evolved to understand the immediate, “middle-sized” world that confronts us daily. We’re grateful then, to the designers and thinkers who make abstract concepts accessible. Case in point: Gapminder, a Stockholm-based non-profit. Their extraordinary […]

Entertainment

The Narnia Wars

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Gazillions of words have written this past month about one of my boyhood heroes C S Lewis, in the run-up to the release of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.  (Trailer here.) Allegedly he was sexist, racist, sado-masochistic and, according to another favorite author of mine Philip Pullman, responsible for one of the most […]

Entertainment

Tuva or Bust

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While studying computer music in the late 1980s, one of my classmates brought a tape into CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics.  The tape had a snippet of music with a sound we had never heard before — a very pure flute like instrument played atop a deep and raspy drone.  […]

Telemarketing: the fight-back

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Here is a beautiful, beautiful thing.  A piece of technology ("TeleCrapper") that allows you to fake a conversation with a telemarketer… without ever answering the phone.  You record some random conversation snippets, and the software plays them back to the marketer every time there’s a silence on the line. So you have the pleasure of […]

HabitatJam …brave!

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The world seems to bursting right now with big ideas.  Lots of people have twigged that in an interconnected world, any individual can make a difference. So why not try to set up something online to facilitate this. Of course, the large majority of these efforts will fail to get to critical mass… but you […]