23 Aug
Live miserable tag surfing

Not every tag cloud has a silver lining. The worlds first performance tag cloud will be digitally bodged live next Tuesday (28/08) at the Cube, Bristol’s own indie microplex. It’s time for the Grumpyman.tv night,a miserable mashup between the cube.tv events and the Grumpy Man DJs.
Ed and I will be doing miserable and annoying [...]
09 Aug
Is blogging the proper task of life?

Art is the proper task of life.
Art and nothing but art!
06 Aug
lolcats

hai. our kittehz haz cheezburger fame. kthxbai.
01 Aug
Ergonomics of the future

While in Spitalfields over the weekend I saw an beautiful retro drafting desk. The kind with wires and pulleys so it can go from flat to vertical and be aligned just right for whatever you’re working on. It got me thinking about what the dominant ergonomic desk paradigm would be for the 21st century. The [...]
23 Jul
Scalpels and Situated Software

It occurred to me as I read the Clay Shirky essay on Situated Software that he was seeing/experiencing the same things as Michael B Johnson said the other night, when talking about writing internal software for Pixar.
We make scalpels not swiss army knives.
Good tools, for the right person, in the right context. They don’t need [...]
20 Jul
So do you think you’ve got what it takes?

Have you got what it takes to be an academic?
We are looking for a new lecturer to join our team at the University of the West of England. Basically what we are looking for is an Information Architect, Interaction Designer, Interface type of person. The kind of person we are looking for has industry experience, [...]
12 Jul
Brain Research and Teaching

A great little find from Piers.
Brain Research and Teaching: “
The science behind learning, for me, is much more important than the politics. Just found a good list of 20 teaching tips derived from brain research.

The brain learns from its environment. Enrich the learning environment.
One’s personal, emotional state greatly influences what is recalled during [...]
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