Archive for December, 2006

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

The state of the union

From IM this morning.
maura: Top Searches:
1. Saddam Execution Video
2. Saddam
3. Saddam Hussein
4. Saddam Video
5. Saddam Execution
6. Miss Nevada
maura: oh, america.

1 Comment » - Posted in Culture by Misha

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Shameless Friend Promotion

Speaking of audience/creator feedback loops, my friend Shana TiVo-blogged the John Stamos gay-marriage TV movie Wedding Wars for Planet Out last night. It’s delightful and funny, and much faster than watching the whole thing yourself.
9:49: I OFFICIALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE. Sean Maher: “What are you doing? You’re not political. You don’t even watch the […]

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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Living in the future II

It’s living in the future early-00’s stylee to push ‘pause’ on your TiVo, fire up iChat on your wireless laptop, and tell your oldest friend that her most famous relation is tonight’s guest on the Colbert Report. By this point, that’s almost passé.
But it’s living in the future mid-decade-wise to see Colbert on the […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Life online by Misha

Friday, December 8th, 2006

This “Internets” thing the kids are so crazy about

I remember, back in the mid-90s, showing a grad school friend how to use Netscape. When she clicked on a link and the screen changed, she nearly jumped out of her seat in shock.
Nice to know not that much has changed in academia higher education in the humanities. (Change as per that extremely academic […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Life online by Misha

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Technoliteracy

Yesterday, I heard the mother of two young kids talk about how her kids played with European-made toys, and educational games, and anything electronic or beeping was banned from her house or had the batteries removed.
After I put her on a mental “no fun at parties” list, I found myself thinking about those kids, and […]

No Comments » - Posted in Interface design by Misha