I just received a lovely piano compilation by Michael Crawford, Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft. His music is released under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, and enclosed in the CD cover is this beautiful message: Why Free Music? I don’t charge money for my music —…
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. — John Berger in About Looking What do you get when you inverse surveillance? A neologism: sousveillance. For those of us who don’t speak français as…
A friend of mine and I recently had an enlightening conversation about cell phone minutes. And about the fact that each new minute of the conversation is charged at a full minute price, even if you only talked a few seconds over. This lead us…
Every day when you prepare to the leave the house, you are confronted with a decision that market analysts and designers drool over, namely, what items do you take with you out of the house? Let’s model this. Presumably you have already in your life…