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Are we losing culture? I don’t think so.

Cringely talks about an input mechanism for the iPhone

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In his column Cringely introduce ForWord input as a way of entering a lot of text on your iPhone. The homepage is really crummy but they have a video introducing it, which is not as bad as the home page. The system is an onscreen keyboard where you draw a line touching the letters you [...]

Smart design in the digital age

Seth Godin tells us about volume control on Air Canada in-flight entertainment system. The control is digital and it will play at the level set by the previous person. In the case of Seth, it was at 11… I have a Smart car, yes the small two person diesel car. Each time I start it [...]

2012 Olympic logo

Seth Godin says it’s just jagged lines. Seth seems to attack every aspect of the logo, I’m with him on two aspects. It is ugly and the justification by the organizing committee chairman is awful. But I think it’s a good logo. It’s 5 blocky shapes that spell 2012. It uses 5 parts to link [...]