January 17, 2001: Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over

Reading this article from The Onion written over 7 years ago is sickening, because for a putative humor magazine, nearly every damn thing they predicted came true.

Adaptive Path Events News – Online, in SF, and in Copenhagen

So many things happening with our events over at Adaptive Path. Use the promotional code FOPM when registering for any of these and receive 15% off. On August 6th, Brandon will be presenting a live virtual seminar on “Showing the Value of UX.” It takes place 10:00am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, and 5pm GMT. This 75-minute [...]

Learning

Reading an article in The New York Times on how Kids These Days are reading more and more online, and fewer books than their predecessors, and the concerns as to whether or not this is a good, bad, or neutral development, there’s a quote from eminent biographer David McCullough: ““Learning is not to be found [...]

Dark Zeitgeist – Needless Nihilism in Batman’s Bombast

Last night we went to see The Dark Knight. I try not to get my hopes up for superhero flicks, but the buzz around this one was so strong, I was definitely looking forward to it. Sigh. I found one review that agrees with how I felt, and I shouldn’t have been surprised that it [...]

Denver Art Museum’s technology-enabled experiences

At FOO Camp I met Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum (He occasionally blogs on the Museum’s site.). For the past few years at UX Week, we’ve had museums (first in D.C., now in SF) share with us how they design for experience. Had I met Bruce a few months [...]

New HIGH AND LOW DVD

In my post “Crime dramas shot in the city,” I mention my love for High and Low (my personal favorite Kurosawa flick.) Well, I just found out that on Tuesday Criterion releases a new 2-disc special edition of the film. Their prior DVD release was just the film, no frills. The new one’s got all [...]

Bold Shill – UX Week News

There’s a lot happening yon Adaptive Path way as we gear up for UX Week 2008. We’ve just announced the actual super final completing of our program, including Jury Hahn, and the presentations we’ll get from the folks at the Exploratorium. My colleague Leah Buley conducted a marvelous interview with Audrey Chen, lead IA on [...]

FOO Camp – My Meta Experience

This past weekend, I had the fortune of attending FOO Camp 08, O’Reilly Publishing’s confab on their campus in Sebastopol. FOO Camp is the original tech “unconference”, where there is no pre-set program. There’s an empty grid of presentation and discussion slots, and attendees fill them out. I enjoyed myself, though it took me a [...]

Dashboard For Your Life

One of the emerging themes of FOO Camp 08 dealt with people’s relationship with the data they create in their life. It began with the first session Saturday morning, where Esther Dyson lead a discussion on “user-generated metadata.” With services like Dopplr, Tripit, 23andMe, Mint, Wesabe, etc. etc, capturing all this information about our lives, [...]

Crime dramas shot in the city

A few posts back, I linked to a video of Bullitt‘s famous car chase geocoded. As a near-San Franciscan, one of the things I love about Bullitt is the use of real San Francisco locations. I recently rewatched the mother of all shot-on-location crime pictures, The Naked City. I strongly recommend viewing the Criterion Collection [...]

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