Synesthesia
Boing Boing recently pointed to a video that explains the neurology and experience of synesthesia, the condition where some people’s sensory perception crosses wires, where numbers and letters have colors, flavors have shapes, words have tastes. At UX Week a couple weeks ago, we had a day devoted to perception, keynoted by Dr. Temple Grandin. [...]
Awesome. And congrats!
Over 8 years ago I blogged about LineDrive, a mapping technology that attempted to simulate the types of maps humans draw. I was even emailed by it’s creator, Maneesh Agrawala. This morning, as I read the SF Gate, I found out that Maneesh just won a MacArthur fellowship! I hadn’t kept up with him, but [...]
Unsee
Today’s “On Language” column in The New York Times addresses the rise of the prefix “un” in the time of increased computer use and social networking. A word unmentioned in the article, but which I’m growing to love, is “unsee“. It’s a strange word, because, as the phrase goes, once you’ve seen something, you can’t [...]
I’m trying to figure out what Facebook is thinking…
This New York Times article discusses how Facebook is doing more and more to come across as Twitter-like. Which strikes me as absurd. Facebook and Twitter serve some pretty distinct needs. Any move toward “Twitter-like” will detract from Facebook’s core offerings, and is thus likely to piss off the literally hundreds of millions of people [...]
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