January 2012
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Does Culture Matter for Product Design? - Core77 →
“Once upon a time, when I visited other countries, I would head to the department stores so I could experience the wide cultural variations in such things as cookware, cutlery and tools for crafts and gardening. Today, I seldom do this anymore because all the stores look the same. Rice cookers and woks may have originated in Japan and China, but today they can be found in kitchen appliance...
November 2011
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Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis - James Fallows... →
Amazing vision of university campus police hurting peaceful protestors.
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A Comic Strip Review of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde... →
This review mirrors my experience. The book draws you in. However I did think it revealed some inadequacies in Stephenson’s grasp of non-American characters and locations. The British characters especially seemed like Americans with formal accents, self-consciously using American idioms. In the end it made Stephenson seem strangely parochial and unsophisticated which is not an impression...
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May 2011
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June 2007
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Turning The Place Over →
On a flying visit to the UK I stayed with my uncle in Liverpool and had time for a quick drive around the old city. Saw this installation in progress.
April 2007
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Victorinox Swiss Army - MultiTools - Cybertool... →
Last night I think I lost a close friend of 25 years—my Swiss Army Knife. I think it fell off my belt during C’s football practice. We went back to look for it but found no sign.
I bought the knife for myself during my second year of university in 1982. I’ve carried it almost every day since then. It makes me sad to think about it but in a way it was inevitable: carry something for...
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“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the...”
– Marshall McLuhan
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“The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent....”
– Marshall McLuhan 1969