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On my competitive nature
I’ll copy the warning previously seen at Erik’s SnowedIn: Warning: If you are easily bored by long drawn-out descriptions of running, you should probably skip this entry. For a change of pace, I went to IU’s HPER (School of Health, Physical Education, & Recreation) Gymnasium to exercise this morning. HPER (pronounced “hyper”) is a huge…
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Remember
“Free Advice” (with purchase of book) Think More, Design Less Say More, Write Less Spend More, Buy Less It is easier to talk than to listen. No job is too small. An interface calls attention to itself at its point of failure. The early bird gets to work before everyone else. Courtesy Ellen Lupton This…
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Marty Party
I can’t believe nobody on PlanetInfo has blogged this yet…come on y’all, look alive! 😉 I’ll just blog the part of it that I found interesting, and I’ll depend on the rest of you to fill in blanks as you see fit. So Marty‘s party was initially to be of the regular ol’ holiday variety,…
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The User
And I quote: “The dominant subject of our age has become neither reader nor writer but user, a figure conceived as a bundle of needs and impairments-cognitive, physical, emotional. Like a patient or child, the user is a figure to be protected and cared for but also scrutinized and controlled, submitted to research and testing.…
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Protopage
How cool is this!? (It’s a question, not a statement.) http://www.protopage.com/josh.ev9
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On Letters
I just spent the evening reading about letters. Really interesting stuff. There’s much more to the design of typefaces and fonts than I had realized. When we talk about ubiquity in HCI classes, we think of it in terms of computers being in many places, but if you really think about it, letters are objects…
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Sponsor me on Flickr
A fantastic gift for yours truly this holiday season: a Flickr Pro account. Click the link to sponsor me and I’ll love you forever. 🙂 You can see what I’ve done so far with my free account here.
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The essence of a song
I wish I could post the “essence” of a song. You know? It’s not that I need the lyrics, or the singer’s voice, or anything really other than the feeling that comes from listening. This morning on my drive in to school the radio station played Long December by the Counting Crows and it just…
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A Little Challenge
Here’s the deal…I have some questions. I’ll pose it, then you should comment on it. I’m really tired lately! Why is that? How could technology help this problem? Could it possibly be due to all this technology? Ready? Go!
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My Quiz
I made a Quiz for You on QuizYourFriends.com CLICK on the link below or PASTE it into your browser. http://www.quizyourfriends.com/yourquiz.php?quizname=051123214837-512833