Do Facebook users spend more time online than computer scientists in the 1960s?
There's a claim-- I found it first in one of Geoff "Nunberg Error" Nunberg's articles-- that before they were all put on CDs, the documentation for a 747
“Slowly, the tools of the hand disappear”
My architectural history mentor, David Brownlee, shared a link to this essay by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on slowness and hand-work in architectural practice. This is a
Fred Stutzman on Freedom, productivity, and bigger/better/faster vs. smaller/better/slower
Fred Stutzman, the creator of Freedom and Anti-Social, and now a postdoc at CMU (and like me, a Microsoft Research Lab alum) has a very nice reflection about
Are there distraction-free graphics programs? Can there be Zenware for music?
I've been wondering about this for a little while. Zenware (the term was coined in this article, btw) seems to consist of 1) programs that keep you from
“Think of how unproductive Dickens would have been if he had to fight against Facebook”
John Biggs reviews a couple distraction-free text editors in the New York Times: With the release of Mac OS X Lion, the idea of a full-screen app —
Today’s picture: Multitasking by design
A surprising example of multitasking technology: a combination bookmark / letter opener / hair stick.via flickr Part of me thinks this is the quirkiest thing since Selleck Waterfall
Quote of the day: Kenzo Awa on teaching vs. learning
And if I tried to give you a clue at the cost of your own experience, I should be the worst of teachers and should deserve to be
Nice mention in School Library Journal
The Marseille talk is the subject of an article in School Library Journal. Thanks, guys!
What was the first machine users considered an extension of themselves?
This is a question I spent a little time digging into today. Leaving aside weapons and artist's tools (though I'm not sure that the now-common "the sword is
The Slow Science Manifesto
This. Is. Awesome. We are scientists. We don’t blog. We don’t twitter. We take our time.... Science needs time to think. Science needs time to read, and