Archive for March 2007

09 Mar 2007 1845H

The last word on the Super Bowl half-time show

So, back in early February I wrote about the half-time show featuring Prince and his infamous Symbol guitar and expressed relief that nothing naughty had occurred.
But evidently, according to Poplicks yesterday, something indeed did happen and here are the reports to prove it.
If this doesn’t tell you America is a sick country, I [...]

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08 Mar 2007 1930H

Jean Baudrillard is not dead

Perhaps he never even existed. (I know I’m not the first to say these things but I have to go on, somehow) But I’ll issue this memoriam for him, or rather, his simulacrum. From Core77, I saw this remarkable story and immediately thought about Baudrillard. (Ironically for me, this particular one is located in Melbourne, [...]

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02 Mar 2007 1741H

The face of the $100 laptop

Got this off Experientia, another one of the few blogs I read that has anything worth reading about UX. So you all remember Negroponte’s famous $100 laptop they’re designing and building over at MIT? Gotta have a user interface somewhere right? It’s called Sugar and it scraps the Desktop metaphor. Instead, the user is the [...]

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