Dan Saffer (who gave a great presentation at SXSW about Learning Interaction Design from Las Vegas) posted a few links to some great videos from the TED conference. I especially liked this video of Malcolm Gladwell speaking about things we can learn from spaghetti sauce or as Dan put it, “why you shouldn’t design for everyone”:
Today I paid a visit to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre to find out more about their current exhibition, “More than Just Games”, which focuses on Canada’s involvement with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. It’s a fascinating, yet haunting look at the games that occurred over 74 years ago just before World War…
I’ve been looking for a better way to use my HDTV lately. The Xbox360 (and XBox 1 running XBMC) I currently have works fine but the biggest issue I have with it, when watching any kind of media is how loud it is. Specifically the fan(s) inside it and the (now obsolete) HDDVD drive. It’s…
Since everyone is doing it, I thought I should do the same although I have a hard time putting them in some kind of order…so they aren’t! Here is my list of the random things from last year that stood out to me in no particular order: my iPhone – in case you haven’t noticed,…
After three weeks, over 17,000 photos and hours of video, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are done. It feels strange to see the city slowly transform itself back to the pre-Olympic state (with some Paralympic exceptions). I wasn’t as quick to update my Olympic subsite as I was my Flickr, YouTube and Twitter accounts but…
My recent trip to Whistler was filled with good times including getting to be on hand for the 2010 FIBT World Cup bobsleigh and skeleton events at the Whistler Sliding Centre. I never had a chance to visit the Sliding Centre during the Olympics (I couldn’t be everywhere at once!) so it was especially cool…
I’m at UBC this weekend attending the Northern Voice conference. Last night was the opening party/dinner at the Waldorf Hotel: I’ll be taking photos all weekend and I’ll be posting intermittently. As usual, Rebecca’s got the live blog going on. You can watch my flickr stream or all the photos tagged by the other attendees.
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What a great video! I never realized how much things have changed in food since the 80’s. Back then, there was the Yuppie quest for ‘best’ . Now it’s the aisle of 20-30 different flavoured vinegars. I have to say that I prefer nowadays.
Isn’t it ironic, though, that years ago, cars were far more different from each other. Now, if you’re spending roughly the same amount of money, you’d be hard pressed to tell a Kia from a Toyota from a Subaru from a Mazda. Or a BMW from a Mercedes from a Lexus from a Volvo. I know I’m exaggerating somewhat, but it’s interesting that one area of life has blossomed into so much variety and choice, while the other has shrunk into a sort of bland, proto-platonic-auto.
Hey, I’m running a blog myself too and I was wondering can you tell me what’s the template you’re using? thanks.
It’s linked at the bottom of the site….theme is called “Techmania” but I’ve made a few modifications to it.