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Reality-Based Interaction: A framework for post-WIMP interfaces
A proposed taxonomy of interaction styles, including "naive physics," "body awareness & skills," "environment awareness & skills," "social awareness & skills."
interface  tothinkabout  urbancomputing 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
Anybody who thinks Mitch Albom writes "wonderful books" may not need to be taken entirely seriously. Still...
tothinkabout  technology 
september 2007 by Urbanscale
pasta and vinegar: code/space by Rob Kitchin
An important taxonomy here that I need to think about, and will not have time to for at least a week.
ubicomp  everyware  everyware2ndedition  tothinkabout 
march 2007 by Urbanscale
Open-Source Spying - New York Times
How many different "Web2.0" tropes can the Times pack into one piece? The wisdom of crowds, the power of data visualization, open source collaboration, it's all in here...
futures  globalism  informationdesign  infovisualization  lifeduringwartime  military  tothinkabout  war 
december 2006 by Urbanscale
Gary Gygax, World Dictator?
Lots of interesting points about downstream consequences of unconscious decisions at the level of architecture, the neotenous society, and so forth. Bottom line: the last few decades of my life don't look as if they will be much fun at all.
everyware  designingdesign  bad  kultur  futures  tothinkabout  tangiblemedia 
july 2006 by Urbanscale
The Center for Deliberative Democracy
Briefly, and probably not fairly: in a random sample, the better constituents are informed, the more they support common-sense (i.e., "left") positions, allocations, etc. Follow up on this.
emergentdemocracy  tothinkabout 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
Code Craft - Freedom languages and safety languages
No, not SM, silly - programming. Fascinating look at developer mindset, via mmigurski.
tothinkabout  programming 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
f r e e g o r i f e r o | weblog
The problem with phone interfaces, the long-awaited FOTA model, and more...
mobile  craft  design  engineering  friends  fabio  materials  tothinkabout 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
Burdens of the Modern Beast
The things we carried. Cf Nurri's distrust of people who aren't carrying anything. Via mito.
design  mobility  urbanism  humanfactors  kultur  gear  tothinkabout 
march 2006 by Urbanscale
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
Christ, he's said it all before, and usually with more rigor than I'll ever be able to
architecture  personal  tothinkabout 
april 2005 by Urbanscale
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (English)
The world is everything that is the case, and like that.
personal  tothinkabout 
february 2005 by Urbanscale
Susan Sontag: The Aesthetics of Silence
"...[A]s the prestige of language falls, that of silence rises."
personal  tothinkabout 
february 2005 by Urbanscale
Theory Club
Danny's tightly kerned theory
tothinkabout 
october 2004 by Urbanscale
Postmodern Thought
And it is! This is pretty comprehensive
tothinkabout 
october 2004 by Urbanscale

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