Monthly Archives: September 2008
Call On Me.
Image source: EW.com I’m in San Francisco, for short project, this week. On some downtime, I told Florian that in my next place I live, I want to get a landline, a real copper wire one, not VOIP. He turned … Continue reading
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My Longstanding Issue With Blog Interfaces.
Something has been confusing and annoying me basically since I started reading blogs. It’s one of those slight annoying things, where a little design considering would make the issue irrelevant. When reading or searching blogs, the bottom of the screen … Continue reading
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The Politics Of The Designer.
Image source: Silverdocs In the post-Olympic, millions of people saw daily images of the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube (designed by Herzog de Meuron and PTW Architects, respectively) which are impressive structures that are now forever linked to the 2008 … Continue reading
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Fashionable Ethics.
Image sources: nymag.com, nytimes. Not the freshest topic, but worth recording, Vogue India’s August’s spread has a 16 page of photo editorial with average India people wearing luxury accessories. What’s the issue with average? When 465 million of 1.1 billion … Continue reading
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The Middle Ground Of Ethical Design.
Images source: Adaptive Design Association To be honest, discussions about ethics can be a downer, because you end up talking about what’s wrong and the positive stories set the ethical bar so high to instill a sense of defeat from … Continue reading
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Linkage for September 5, 2008
On security: Esther Dyson talks about How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security. First Noah reported getting spam in Facebook, now an application was launched to expose how a security hole could be exploited to turn Facebook accounts … Continue reading
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A Fork In the Browser Road
Image source: flickr Well, the internet is buzzing with the discussions and reviews of Google’s recently release browser, Chrome. Nick Carr has some good thoughts on the subject, his key take aways: “To Google, the browser has become a weak … Continue reading
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