Core77 Design News:: DIS2004 Trip Report

Jonah and I recently co-wrote this article for giggles:: Core77 Design News

Breaking News

Breaking News

nice pic

BODYWORLDS-Home

So, besides the San Francisco Exploratorium, another reason to visit California is to see the BODYWORLDS-exhibit. Looks way cool!

Kluwer Online Internet Publishing System - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

Just a reminder to look at this paper: Kluwer Online Internet Publishing System - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

List of major flops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yams just pointed me to List of major flops

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Child Pimp & Ho Costumes

Child Pimp & Ho Costumes

Dim Sum, Art, and Princess Diaries 2

This weekend, went to Dim Sum at Emperor's Garden with Rich, Virginia, Sopps, Jim, Tuan, Seewee, Nick and Shen. Met Etienne, who has an art project where he takes recycled American electronics and teaches people in south america how to hack. Then we were full, and some of us headed to get bubble tea, others went to see the Princess Diaries 2. Julie Andrews is certainly regal! :)

NEW! Audio blogs are now added

Just found out about audioblogging, and this is my first audio post.

Slices of LIfe

spiked-IT | Article |Slices of life

MobileTechNews - Motorola shows five new GPRS handsets at CeBIT 2001

A blast from the past:: MobileTechNews - Motorola shows five new GPRS handsets at CeBIT: "Shared Knowledge"

Usability Views - 8,420 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, HCI and web design

Usability Views - 8,420 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, HCI and web design

ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Just noticed that Katerine's stuff is on the front page of the "hot picks" section of ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art. COOLNESS!

Terror alerts vs. Bush Popularity

Blogger: User Profile: Angela Chang

So, Sonia said today that I should put a profile on my Aim account. I've been super aware of my profile now, so I have added a Blogger: User Profile: Angela Chang. The picture is drawn by pantswagon, ofcourse, and shows my favorite Pirate, Carrudo.

Anj Likes Jumbo Dogs

Jim points out that I like Jumbo dogs. One reason is that it is the best deal in 1 Kendall Square. Second reason is that these hot dogs are, like, 3 ft, long (see the picture on the right)! Third and last reason is that they keep people away cause you burp "hot dog" after you eat em.

mesh performance partnerships : between bodies

mesh performance partnerships : between bodies

Interaction Ivrea: News: Educational Activities: 2001-02: Second Trimester: Dialogue Richard Eisermann

At the end of DIS2004, Gilliam Crampton Smith talked about designing immaterial things. She mentioned IDEO and showed some work on delivering dreams... it was great. Here's another article Interaction Ivrea: News: Educational Activities: 2001-02: Second Trimester: Dialogue Richard Eisermann

Motorola A630 video - Cell Phones - CNET Reviews

Motorola A630 video - Cell Phones - CNET Reviews... I think its cool, and different, and useful...

snacks for humans (people)

snacks for humans (people) (look her up when in Beijing)

DIS2004 | Paper sessions | Designing Interactive Systems

Today I attended first day of DIS2004 | Paper sessions | Designing Interactive Systems, and enjoyed learning and meeting a ton of people. Met some people from Art Center in California, some people from Viktoria Institute and many other artists. You will be psyched to know that some of the people from my old group won prizes in the Design Awards. :) Awesome!

== www.personaldebris.com ==

Apparently, there's a lot of racism in Dublin, read Kat's blog...== www.personaldebris.com ==

Nico Macdonald | Spy

Nico Macdonald | Spy

:: influences.org ::

:: influences.org ::

Bikes Against Bush

Bikes Against Bush

Bluetooth Users Against Bush

Bluetooth Users Against Bush

DIS2004 | Home | Designing Interactive Systems

Today was the opening registration day for DIS2004. Finally got to meet so many of the people who's paper's I've read. So that is cool! :) Hyun had everything in control on the exhibit floor, and Paul was on top of things. Had a coffee with Dan and got to see the infamous Nico. Conor flew in late, and got to talk to him. Also Jonah introduced me to Jo and Helen from Turbulence who are pioneers in digital art. Still have to go get my visa photos taken... maybe tomorrow.

Pantswagon:: Make Your Own Firesword

Pantswagon now has a blog called Make Your Own Firesword. Friggin hilarious, especially the commentators. Reminds me of home sweet home in Central Square. I think the Hobo Index is down because of the convention...

TxtMob

Join my TxtMob, by getting a login and then I can sms to you.
:)

Food on Verizon's superpages

I just found this resource,Food & Dining, Restaurants, More Restaurants, Massachusetts, MA, Superpages, Yellow Pages, and thought it was quite useful. I have won a free lunch from Cafe Kiraz, down Hampshire. So that's very lucky... :)

Roland DG Corporation

Roland DG Corporation makes the ultimate desktop milling machine-- the Modela. :)

Dinos ducks and geese

It was a great puttin' and paddling weekend. I was feeling down on Friday, but then Roo was here, and we went to go putting and paddling with Virginia and Jim, Nick, Sopps n Shen. First it was miniature golf on Route 1, and then a trip to Kelly's, where Jim found the Miracle Road to avoid that crazy traffic. Then we went to see the World's Fair, got some pulled pork. Just the perfect pre-canoeing lunch. We canoed up the Charles and got food in Watertown, saw the weir and came back. A satisfying, and fun weekend.

Therac -25

I know you've all read about this. But i recently found this link on the Therac-25 and thought it was an interesting read. Just saw iRobot so it seemed relevant.

Spunky Sonia's shout outs.

Spunky Sonia's Shout outs are pretty cool. I would like to give my Miami Friends Barbie and Jackie a Shout-out!

Roo's blog: At the Boundary Between Grains

At the Boundary Between Grains

a more updated ... Matt Iskra's Journal

Matt Iskra's Journal coolness

Watched The Last Boy Scout,

2 slices of the classico pizza from Polcari's and The Last Boy Scout (1991) ain't a bad way to spend a friday.

Iskra's boring web page

Iskra's boring web page

mattiskra on LJ

Matt just clued me on LJ. mattiskra - User Info: "Friend".

Thanks Matt, I feel clued in.

2600 NEWS: FIFTH HOPE AFTERMATH

Matt got back and told me about his conference: 2600 NEWS: FIFTH HOPE AFTERMATH

Just found Rich Lester's Caving Photos

Caving is a fun sport. We tried it once with Rich, and got soaked and dirtied up to our ears. It was fun though!

Ibiza Muralla, Clubbing at Pacha, and Beach Sept. 17-19, 2003

Finally put up my Ibiza Muralla, Clubbing at Pacha, and Beach Sept. 17-19, 2003 pictures...

Bubbles

Come blow Bubbles on Monday!

La Padrera and Parc Guell in Barcelona Sept. 15-17, 2003

Just uploaded the second half of the best of our spain visit toLa Padrera and Parc Guell in Barcelona Sept. 15-17, 2003. If you're smart, you'll be able to spot the one non-Gaudi photo in the lot. Good luck hunting!

Mad Bomber's Page of Yelling Nonsense from Matt

Matt, whom I have found recommends Mad Bomber's Page of Yelling Nonsense. Its funny... click on the links!

Wireless: NewsFactor Network - Mobile Devices - Motorola Debuts Messaging Phone

Wireless: NewsFactor Network - Mobile Devices - Motorola Debuts Messaging Phone

Barcelona Sept. 15-17, 2003

Finally put my Barcelona Sept. 15-17, 2003 online.

Pacific Bestour

Pacific Bestour a place for china tours

List of major flops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of major flops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Massachusetts is abbreviated to MASS

IIES FAQ's - Original Set: "Massachusetts"

If the street name is a word which has an accepted abbreviation, such as the name of the state, you should use that abbreviation.
EXAMPLE: 1575 Massachusetts Avenue
EDIT AS: 1575 MASS AV

Bargain hunting

Online bargain hunting brings up Fatwallet . Although I've used fatwallet before, I just found some great coupon codes too. :)

Peter Pan is a bully, The Chicken Run ROCKS

Boston.com / Business / Peter Pan is a bully: "business, using vans to drive his fellow immigrants to their jobs in New York City. Business booms. Pretty soon Pei Lin Liang is running cut-rate, no-frills bus service between Boston and New York. The appeal could not be simpler: $10 one way.
The customers love it -- and not just Asians, but anyone looking to save a buck, particularly the young. What Southwest Airlines did to the economics of air fares, Liang's little bus line, Fung Wah Bus, is now doing to the established order of the I-95 bus business. And in an era of overpaid chief executives, Liang, who speaks little English and lives in New York, still drives a bus regularly."
Go Fung Wah!

Fourth east and The Rock

Tonight we saw The Rock (1996) at LSC. Vimal organized it, and we had rice krispies desserts while chatting to Slugfest. Familiar faces and good entertainment. What more could you ask for? Also got to see the first episode of Monk on the projection in the Goodale Lounge. It was good, a bit sad. Can't believe Vimal and Kathy and gang have graduated! Has it been 4 years already???

Happy Birthday Roo

Good luck HelloMoto

HelloMoto qualifies for the Vendee Globe race by coming in 5th at the Transat. :) Can you imagine 5 months at sea??? Good thing there are satellite phones. :)

Hellomoto Racing Yacht Sets Sail

Today we got to get a close look at the Hellomoto boat. Hellomoto Racing Yacht Sets Sail and came into harbor in Boston last weekend. Moto had a reception at Rowes Wharf. I think its quite exciting that these young people can dedicate their lives to this sport. This race was a 14 day solo race, and the only contact with others was an Iridium phone. The boat was very pretty and besides being nicely painted, seemed to have lots of cool tech. There were at least 8 solar panels and 3 anemometers. There were also catamarans and tri-cats in the harbor, which were quite interesting to look at.

Dinner at the Union Oyster House

So we're sitting in Faneuil Hall, eating fish and chips at Union Oyster House, Boston. Apparently it's America's Oldest Restaurant. The food was good though. Good dinner for a nice night.

Santiago Calatrava Website

So I walk past the Gehry building almost every day, and I wonder, why couldn't we get something from Santiago Calatrava? I remember walking under his bridge in Valencia, and his beautiful Metro stop. Beauty and engineering....

'ello, me duck!

My friend Ian Gouldstone, has a blog now. It's called 'ello, me duck! and is much more cool than mine! :)

Ferrari

Today, I shook the hand of Pininfarina. Can I tell you how awesome it was to meet someone who gets to design something so cool!? :) Motorola Ferrari Challange Vrrooom!

How to Remove Comment notes from BlogSpeak Javascript Errors

I take no responsibility for people who don't back up their site. I would save a backup copy first, and then remove the comment stuff from BlogSpeak(because it generates javascript errors).

First, log onto your Blogger.com account. Go to the Blog template and delete the lines that have anything to do with blogSpeak. Also need to delete the stuff having to do with $BlogComment stuff.
Most obvious is the line that starts with "script" and has blogspeak in the line.

<script type="text/javascript" 

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Next is the ItemPage section that has "BlogComments" references in it.
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Attended a talk by Ben Shneiderman this week on Info Vis

Ben Shneiderman can explain why info vis ties into usability. The examples he showed us were AWESOME.

"L33T" Speak Invades Schools

"L33T" Speak Invades Schools

h4ck3r =boi

l33t sp43k is t3h 0ld th4ng. but now unsig tihs tpye of ctniooimcmaun heowver is the new fad, so use it. h4ck3r =boi

:: TOKE _BARTER : INTERACTION_DESIGN : RCA ::

:: TOKE _BARTER : INTERACTION_DESIGN : RCA ::

Pictures from Ziondanch

Pictures from Memorial Day weekend on Ziondanch
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah!

Wallpaper*

My coworkers really love the style of Wallpaper*

Brazilian Body Language

Brazilian Body Language

Jose Ku Sia

Just found the portfolio of Jose Ku Sia, Jr. , a fellow MIT alumni. He's into rapid prototyping and product design. His recent work on Design and Evolution reminds me of Franco Lodato's Book Bionics in Action.

YOU'VE BEEN SORTED INTO...

I'VE BEEN SORTED INTO... Gryffindor! Which one are you? Take the quiz here.

Phone Etiquette

Working in this industry its only fair to be reminded of true phone conversation etiquette. Telephone etiquette. (Thanks Henry!)

Hint Fashion Magazine -- Contents

Sometimes you need a fashionHint. Good thing you can go online and get a clue.

Khwaj

Kwhaj

Cambridge Chronicle Police Logs

Cambridge Police Logs courtesy ofCambridge Cambridge Cambridge Chronicle...

Adele Naude Santos, MIT's new dean of Architecture

After a nice dinner at Outback with Jim's parents, I was delighted to receive my latest issue of PLAN. It listed the new dean of Architecture, Adele Naude Santos, and some pics of her buildings. I really enjoyed reading about it. Later, I found a good site, by an MIT student called not to scale . a journal of thoughts on architecture. Interesting ways to glimpse what's going on in the MIT Architecture department. Anyway, her buildings look way cool, and I like the idea of landscape blending into a building.

Sunshine Mary holds back tears - How Romantic! :)

Sunshine Mary holds back tears - Breaking News - http://www.theage.com.au

CELab - Designing Bits & Pieces

CELab - Designing Bits & Pieces. On May 10, the MIT Media Laboratory and the Consumer Electronics Association will co-host a symposium at MIT's Kresge Auditorium, followed by a research open house at the Media Lab. Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, will serve as emcee.

My favorite talk was by Hugh Herr. Now that is cutting edge!

EWG Report || Focus Pocus

EWG Report || Focus Pocus: "came under immediate fire from independent scientists and public health activists for failing to adopt the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences study on mercury (NAS 2000), and for not providing pregnant women with complete information on what fish to avoid during pregnancy - particularly tuna.
Speaking to the press in May 2001, Dr. Robert Goyer, chairman of the NAS committee on mercury toxicity, criticized the Agency's health advisory for mercury, saying 'The F.D.A. should be providing people with the best information and let them be the judge. The F.D.A. has stopped short of what it should have done.'
Newly-available, internal FDA documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveal that FDA, under pressure from the seafood industry, is deliberately withholding critical information from pregnant women on mercury-contaminated tuna and other fish, and using 'focus group' sessions as a justification. "

Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website

Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website

Coffee Lyrics

Coffee Lyrics

I like my men

Like I like my coffee

Hot, strong and sweet like toffee

Oh! So you know that I can’t let you go

I like my men



luscious...

Supersister UK

Roo has introduced me to Supersister UK, a group that he thinks is fabulous. I have yet to hear their song, but I hear "coffee" is great. Review coming soon...

CHI 2004: April 24-29 | Vienna, Austria

Just got back from my trip toCHI 2004: April 24-29 | Vienna, Austria. It was nice that this year, people were way more accepting of ambient communication and telepresence. It was a bonus to see so many telepresence projects, and instead of hearing questions on the merits of such work, noting the acceptance and queries about the research. Also, the SV party was rocking! They had the German DJ pumping out techno and people dancing on the tables by the end of the night. The best part was when the Chairs got up and danced, after people shouted "more more more" so that the DJ would do an encore. What a conference!

Google Image Result for www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_41/multimodal/gifs/mmstocktrade3.gif

Google Image Result for www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_41/multimodal/gifs/mmstocktrade3.gif

Google Image Result for www.kirusa.com/images/graphics2_man_talking.jpg

Google Image Result for www.kirusa.com/images/graphics2_man_talking.jpg

W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity

W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity

Alvin Ailey show

Sometimes, I wonder at how awesome my friends are. Sarah, whom I grew up with, but hadn't seen in a while, invited me to watch her cousin perform. Bonus! Her cuz is a dancer in the Alvin Ailey dance troupe. We got great seats, and the performance was awesome! I had been to this show once before, but we were further back. This time, we were in the orchestra, and the performance was amazing. I had grown up reading about Katherine Dunham, so Alvin Ailey holds a special place in my heart... Double bonus, we got to meet her cousin and some friends. My first time meeting real dancers. They were just as beautiful off the stage as they were on the stage. Suffice it to say, I went to bed with a large moony smile on my face.

Kougra reminds me of... Kalumni

The cutest Kougra

Massive Change - is - positive

Jim will laugh because he's always foretold the invention of Sticky Gas. Massive Change - is - positive

#17 Unbroken

To22 project: #17 Unbroken We have all broken something by accident. For most of us, the pieces go right into the trash. But to22 saw broken pottery as a great design opportunity. "Most people see broken objects such as dishes as useless. Instead we saw that something wonderful was revealed. It's about a second life- and what better way to have these qualities noticed than by placing them right out in the open, in the middle of your life? Your dining table is the place where you converse, the place where you share and this design was created to be the centerpiece

Art Interactive

Zahra introduces me to the Art Interactive, right outside my door...

Bill "Superfoot" Wallace: The Man, The Martial Artist, The Teacher

Bill "Superfoot" Wallace: The Man, The Martial Artist, The Teacher

Bill "Superfoot" Wallace

Roo has introduced me to Bill "Superfoot" Wallace.

Got Jazz - Age Appropriate

Got Jazz - Age Appropriate

RFID on Yahoo

Yahoo! News - Tech Tuesday

smart textiles

sharonblurb

Cummins, Inc.-- Global economy strains loyalty in company town

I bet the same is happening all over the country, companies struggling with the global economy, and towns struggling because of it. Global economy strains loyalty in company town (Columbus, Indiana). I used to work at Cummins, and I have always thought it was a very good company. It was always impressive to see how community-based, and value oriented it was. It is hard to see it going through tough times, but I think they will survive. Likewise, I am hopeful that the new changes will make the townspeople more able to compete, and that a new equilibrium finds its place.

BIZARRE ATTRACTIVE FORCE FOUND IN MAYONNAISE

BIZARRE ATTRACTIVE FORCE FOUND IN MAYONNAISE: "'I went to the store, bought a jar of mayonnaise and tested it,' said Montesi. 'I was curious to see if it showed the same negative normal stress, and it did.'"

This is where research money goes. Don't laugh.