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”:
This was my 8th year attending the annual South by Southwest Interactive (aka SXSW or SXSWi) festival and I have to say, it may be my last. It’s not because I didn’t enjoy myself, meet tons of great people and learn new things – all of which I did as I do every year. It…
Today was a travel day for getting to Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. Of course, this meant that I brought a bunch of camera gear with me onto the plane…including this handy little suction cup gorilla pod mount for my Zi6 HD camera that you can see on the right. I also added the fisheye…
Last Friday I got invited by Honda Canada to a parking lot behind the Pacific Coliseum to get some driving tips for driving a manual transmission. I wasn’t entirely sure what was going to happen but it sounded interesting and I haven’t driven a standard transmission in probably 20 years. I was helping a friend…
This past weekend, I had a chance to attend the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo (aka PAX) in Seattle, Washington. I’ve always wanted to attend but it’s usually been on the same weekend as my anniversary so it just didn’t work out before now. PAX is pretty much SXSW for the videogame set….including conference sessions, a…
While catching up on my RSS feeds via Google Reader, I saw that Google has greatly expanded the theme options for their personalized homepage called iGoogle. I really like iGoogle for a couple of reasons: it’s cross browser/platform so it works fine on my work PC running Firefox or (shudder) IE or any of my…
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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.