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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Crazy don’t get well by itself, son
For a “oh, that’s where they are now! no surprise there” moment for the Old Hats in the house, check out this news update:
The Weekly Standard’s Reliable Sources
No further comment is needed, I think. Though Lord knows it’s tempting.
1 Comment » - Posted in Life online by Misha
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Leading indicators
Breaking a too-long radio silence born of work stress…
Anyhow, leading indicator: SMSes in the office. Intra-office SMSing. Why? You may step away from your computer, but you always have your phone with you.
(Other contributory factors: European coworkers, large enough office to make running all over looking for someone a drag, smartphones assigned to all senior […]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Misha
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Overheard at First Saturday
In the quite literally mind-bending Devorah Sperber exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, in front of “After Picasso (Gertrude Stein).” Dramatis personæ: two older women, part of the First Saturday crowd.
Woman #1: Do you think she made that herself?
Woman #2: The artist?
Woman #1: Gertrude Stein.
Woman #2: (a bit nonplussed) No, that’s not… Anyway, isn’t […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Feminism, Culture by Misha
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
In which I taste sweet, sweet victory
This weekend, I was honored to be an invited speaker at the IDSA North-east Division’s regional conference, which was held at the Rhode Island School of Design. Woot! It’s always nice to revisit College Hill — I went to Brown, so I get all nostalgic about my theory-head SGML-coding 21-year-old self, who I […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Personal, Product design by Misha
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
When I was in college, and working as a temp in midtown over the summer, I would take lunches sometimes in the public space in the ground floor of the Philip Morris building. There was a gallery associated with some New York museum, I forget which, though I remember the Laurie Anderson retrospective that was […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Personal, Culture by Misha
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
More learning from Las Vegas
1. The strip is designed to keep you inside casinos. Inside my hotel (the Flamingo, because we information architects like to kick it old-school), every path you can take is designed to take you through or into a casino. The rooms don’t even have those terrible hotel-room coffee makers, which I presume is to get […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Personal, Interface design, Uncategorized by Misha
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Oooh, Las Vegas, ain’t no place for a poor boy like me
If I had to choose, I don’t think my first viewing of the Las Vegas strip would have been jet-lagged and stomach-achey from a turbulent flight. Still, I can’t imagine it wouldn’t have been overwhelming anyway. And this from a woman who functions at her best in New York.
The Bellagio water spectacle, so beautifully captured […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Society, Personal, Interface design by Misha
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Bulletproof Boss
Our office hosted a discussion on designing for the body tonight , featuring the founders and presidents of two design companies — one that makes sex toys, one that makes body armor. It was an interesting discussion; the similarities of the stories of starting the businesses and the design challenges they faced was actually […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Product design, Technology by Misha
Monday, March 12th, 2007
New Yorker design non-mystery solved
My flashback to the old Lingua Franca site on first laying eyes on the new New Yorker site now makes even more sense — I discovered, via Emdashes, that both were designed by the same people.
Though it’s amazing how much more design you can get out of a 1024 screen and a Condé Nast […]
No Comments » - Posted in Interface design by Misha
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Twitter: the present of presence
So the first big news out of SXSW Interactive this year seems to be that Twitter has hit some sort of adoption tipping point: In Ross Mayfield’s phrase, it’s “tipped the tuna.”
Twitter is a presence publisher: it asks you “what are you doing now?” and you tell it. It, in turn, tells your friends, […]
