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SCG SmallWiki: Installation of Pier How to install the Pier CMS via Squeak (tags: pier seaside squeak smalltalk) […]

Unusual Ways to Diet Alphabet diets, decibel diets (what’s loudest?), democratic diets… fun. (tags: diet food fun) […]

Forgive me for the following set of mismatched ideas that landed on me while drowsing this morning that I just wanted to get out. I’ve been reading more (and in a very undisciplined, eclectic way) about Christian theology over the last two millennia without any particular preference for which of the various traditions I focus […]

A few days ago I started using Firefox 2.0 on my Mac. I switched to Firefox from Safari a few weeks ago and managed to find a skin I kinda liked and an extension that gave me window-close buttons on each tab (rather than the error-prone single window-close button at the end of the tab […]

Online participation: for every regular contributor, nine occasionals and ninety-nine lurkers | Social Signal Social Signals lays out the classic participation numbers from Uncle Jakob. (tags: pareto jakobnielsen online […]

How to Save the World “As more and more of us learn to value our time more highly, and seize back more of it for ourselves […] we will start to choose what’s fun over what’s […]

There may be a few moments of mid-air turbulence. I’m just upgrading to Wordpress 2.04. Update: Done. All seems well. If you noticed anything untoward, please let me know. I upgraded mostly because ecto couldn’t upload images to Wordpress 2.0 - which got fixed in 2.01 and I only just got around to fixing it.

integral yeshe HTB’s secret identity muses on the value of addressing G-d in the second person. (tags: integral spirit) Idiagram: The Art of Insight and Action “Visual modelling and facilitation for complex business problems” (thanks Dud) (tags: art consulting cool design facilitation ideas presentation visual visualization thinking) coComment - […]

The Post-Modern Rhetoric of High Technology @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL “The nihilism of The Bomb, the ethical bankruptcy of eugenics and similar traffics in human suffering are examples of [postmodernism’s] negative effects.” Wait, we’re blaming the […]

Something that came out of a couple of talks I’ve given recently about the use of scenarios in design… Scott McCloud in “Understanding Comics” makes a claim that simple, iconic faces in comics (canonical example: Tin Tin) allow us to mentally “fall into” the character - to identify with the character and see ourselves in […]

A quicky little something I need to get off my chest. David Allen’s “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” has a tiered notion of things you worry about - “open loops” he calls them. From smallest to biggest, it goes something like: current actions current projects area of responsibility one- to two-year goals three- to five-year vision Life. He has […]

Project Blackbox Crikey! Sun’s built a prototype datacentre into a shipping container. The visual scenarios (courtesy of daveg) are hilarious and cool. (tags: hardware sun cool) […]