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Monthly Archives: September 2009
architecture
“Frank Duffy’s layering of buildings into Site-Structure-Skin-Services-Space-plan-and-Stuff” “What are we to make of all this apparent fraudulence? As a boat lover I remember when fiberglass boats first came along in the 1950s, and everyone said they would never work, never … Continue reading
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The Third Culture and The Edge
“The strength of the third culture is precisely that it can tolerate disagreements about which ideas are to be taken seriously. ” http://www.edge.org/about_edge.html
Posted in information diet, philosophy of science, social network
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synonyms by culture
Surely there is a crowdsourced thesaurus and dictionary (thought it’s reprehensible that the major ones – dictionary.reference.com – don’t allow it) – and I’ll assume that somebody can apply the best practices in filtering/judging entries. But we need a way … Continue reading
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software observations
Why don’t restaurant point of sale devices support dividing bills for large parties? for that matter, why not get them to use a handheld device to allow the server to do it at the table? Then, I found myself pressing … Continue reading
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decoupling intuitive relations from complex calculations in mathematics education
Got my hair cut by a european lady with an advanced degree in mathematics this morning, and we managed to find a lot to agree about but it seems I need to work on this idea about a new conception … Continue reading
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wiki visual
Apeksha and I were talking the other day about user interface, and (thoroughly indirectly) came up with the idea that a google search should include – in part at least – a visual breakdown of the general areas that are … Continue reading
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the new planning
I came to ID thinking that Design and Planning still operated like in the 50s, setting out a five year plan or a grand vision of a shiny future. I’m finding that there’s a different kind of big-picture, a model … Continue reading
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