Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future
Years ago, I read Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen's Myth of the Paperless Office. For me, it's like Annie Hall or Houses of the Holy or David Brownlee's
Donald Michael and the problem of retrospection in futures
Recently I came across a discarded copy of a pamphlet by Donald Michael, Cybernation: The Silent Conquest. Michael was part of that generation of American social scientists that
From Mighty Mouse to Magic Mouse
Just over four years ago, Apple came out with the Mighty Mouse, its now-standard multi-button mouse with a scroll ball. I talked about the mouse as a canonical
Owen and Darwin at the Natural History Museum
This won't be exciting to anyone but historians of science, but yesterday when I was at the Natural History Museum, I noticed something new. The statue of Richard
High Street then and now
Me in 2006: via flickr And me now: via flickr I think I'm wearing the same brand of jeans and style of shirt in both pictures, but that's
Strange signs
A couple curious things I saw walking around Vienna today. via flickr Is it just me, or do "Alter Schmuck" and "pullovaria" this sound like his and hers
Jewish Museum Vienna
This afternoon I went to the Jewish Museum Vienna. The museum is located near Stephensplatz, in the center of the city, in a building that was once the
On academic presentations and the future of conferences
Author and creative writing teacher Rachel Toor writes in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) about the problems of either dashing off talks the night before,
Ah Ryanair, will you never cease pushing the boundaries of customer service?
My nemesis, Ryanair (which I flew several times last year), has announced a brave new era in customer service: RyanAir this week announced that they will soon eliminate
A few of my favorite things: What I enjoy about travel, biking, workshops, and cooking
In the last few days I've been doing a lot of stuff: biking, organizing a Memorial Day dinner, preparing for a week-long trip to the East Coast, thinking