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bookmarked on: Monday, 30 August 2010, 11:17
linowski.ca / thoughts

Tom Wujec gives a TED talk on how meaning is created by the brain. The success behind sketching techniques are also touched upon.

bookmarked on: Thursday, 26 August 2010, 11:21
Speak Up Archive: Recommended Reading

bookmarked on: Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 14:09
Design story: The Decanter on Vimeo

bookmarked on: Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 10:21
Mortal Engines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nikolas Quirke, designed a system known as Municipal Darwinism, where entire cities essentially become immense vehicles known as Traction Cities, and must consume one another in order to maintain themselves in a world deprived of most natural resources. Although the planet has since become stable again, Traction Cities are still used despite the fact that they were intended to escape from natural disasters, and the new world order continues.

bookmarked on: Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 17:48
Cities of Text: Some Notes On Some Notes on Intranets, Knowledge Management And Urban Planning

The intranet market is, for good or ill, a supply-driven market: IT vendors and not end-user organizations define the market, drive the market, make the market. What end-user organizations, in the name of intranets, make, most often, are data junkyards: unplanned, managed and unmanageable tangles of web servers loaded down with the same over-elaborated, inscrutable junk that littered the predecessor "sharing" technology-of-choice: file servers.

bookmarked on: Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 14:08
BBC News - Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive

Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.

bookmarked on: Sunday, 15 August 2010, 13:33
het Geheugen van Nederland

bookmarked on: Saturday, 14 August 2010, 20:12
INDXR

bookmarked on: Saturday, 14 August 2010, 20:08
Core (CMS)

bookmarked on: Saturday, 14 August 2010, 16:37
Metafiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

bookmarked on: Thursday, 22 July 2010, 21:35
Groupthink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Groupthink is a type of thought within a deeply cohesive in-group whose members try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. It is a second potential negative consequence of group cohesion.

bookmarked on: Thursday, 22 July 2010, 21:32
J. P. Guilford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joy Paul Guilford (March 7, 1897, Marquette, Nebraska – November 26, 1987, Los Angeles) was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the important distinction between convergent and divergent production.

bookmarked on: Thursday, 22 July 2010, 21:28
The Problem With Brainstorming

bookmarked on: Monday, 19 July 2010, 21:41
Architecture + Art | deconarch

bookmarked on: Sunday, 18 July 2010, 11:56
Design For the First World

We live in a complex world, one full of inequities and wonderful things. Our fellows in the First World have been concerned for a while with us having the major share of the badness, so we thought, why don’t we pay back? After all, their life isn’t problem-free either. And that’s where this competition starts.