Loosability Buttons to operate toilet door on board train today… Just wondering… how do you know when it’s locked? More
Follow your bliss If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are – if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life... More
Getting there… I’m starting to narrow in on what to write about when I do my Masters At the moment it’s looking like: The application of Gestalt theory in user interface and information design for web-based applications More later. More
The host with the most Springcleaning his blog Tom Loosemore found this pdf document outlining what he thought were the key components for a successful online community when he applied for a job with Microsoft in 1996. Everything you need to know distilled in to one side of paper. He was offered the job but didn’t fancy the commute to... More
Can’t find it? Try these A piece in today’s Guardian Online lists some of the web’s top search engines as a “new search war breaks out” I’ve set them up below for easy access. The groupings are taken from the paper version of the Guardian. (One or two missing from the original list until I have time to get them... More
Instruction manual or warning signs? Thanks to Claire for alerting me to The 48 Laws of Power Remind you of anyone in power anywhere? More
Form and function: for better or worse “Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” Frank Lloyd Wright, US Architect, 1867-1959 Many everyday designs in use in the synthetic world are like moments of harmony during a turbulent but ultimately constructive relationship. In between these moments you find form following function... More
Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005) Pioneer of gonzo journalism shoots himself Lots of tributes here I was just wondering what Will Self is thinking More