Good Absences
September 2, 2011
How technology reminds me to be human.
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Feminine Failure
July 22, 2011
Can we bake, assemble, and frost our three-tiered cakes and eat them too?
RoboRoach Academy
June 10, 2011
Backyard Brains is on a mission to democratize neuroscience; I am inspired to make up words. Entrepreneurologists. Revulsionary. Creeptastic.
Ghost in the Appliances
May 27, 2011
I am thinking of buying a pistol. Because, today, my stove unilaterally changed its clock to military time. (Just what, I ask, must a stove be planning, to take such measures?)
The Willful Death of a Luddite
March 25, 2011
My order complete, I closed my browser window and picked up a chewed copy of Dracula, opening to a random page just in time for one of those whom I betrayed to come around the corner.
Ten Things I Learned at the App Store
February 18, 2011
When Apple announced the opening of their App Store for Mac, I was excited: my first personal exposure to this wonderful world of Angry Birds and Urban Spoon. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.
Information Design and the Modern World
November 26, 2010
We live in a world increasingly saturated with information, and thanks in large part to the worldwide web, data now flows faster than the speed of light. Whether this means downloading massive amounts of text to a computer or mobile device, sharing links and ideas via social networks, or simply accessing news media resources, the [...]
I Facebook, Therefore I Am
November 26, 2010
While we’ve all discussed the shortcomings of Facebook, how often do we discuss the downside of not being on Facebook?
Death by Taradiddle
November 5, 2010
Your thumbs are aching. Your wrists are burning. But, you persevere. You hit send. You smile, as you picture the delight on the face of the receiver who will open your clever little text.