Monthly Archives: February 2010

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/computer-jargon-baffles-users-hinders-security/ 1. Great opportunity for a comm project. 2.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/us/politics/20justice.html?hpw An article about the government’s internal stuggles over the terror memos of the bush asdministration reminds me of my own worries and self-flagellation when I realize I’ve been stupidly pursuing a … Continue reading

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tagging

Record galvanic skin response of photographer in metadata of a photo?

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limits of science

“Moving from classical to quantum mechanics required scientists to ab andon their hopes for absolute measurement precision to gain much greater statistical predictive power.” Pg 278; north and macal- managing business complexity, 2007

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two new views of time

The timeline – instructive as it is – keeps us in the linear and thus teleological Western mindset. Try this instead.

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china & the economy

http://www.artefactgroup.com/blog/2010/01/consumerism-in-the-wild-wild-east-what-to-know-about-designing-for-china/ This article – as enlightening and fascinating as it is – still seems to harbor a prejudice of the Aristotelian (i.e. black vs. white, with no in-betweens) worldview: it labors to convince us that China’s rapid economic growth and … Continue reading

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rga interactive

“interactive designers aren’t just telling one 30-second linear story—they’re telling hundreds of interwoven stories as well as non-stories” – from a story about R|GA on their website in comm arts magazine This writer seems to have found another path to … Continue reading

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