Implementation of a Web-based E-notebook: Reimer and Douglas: JoDI – some great tips on how people need to use such a thing…
50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work – good for designs, too: “Ideas are a dime a dozen once you learn how to find them. Become a supplier rather than a consumer.”
Marginal Revolution: Why has transportation progressed so slowly, relative to expectations? – “We have focused on moving physical resources and information, rather than moving people.
GM FastLane Blog: Lutz Speech on Design – “Tumble-home is the angle of glass from the beltline to the roof as viewed from the front or the rear of the vehicle.”
Photohawk – good ideas for online image search/storage
Focus, and by extension one’s _involvement_ in something, is the key to quality work in a world that is awash in opportunities. Time ran a recent article on “twixters”, college graduates in their mid-20s who live at home, hop from job to job, and feel lost in the world: Parents were baffled when their expensively…more
TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine — Grow Up? Not So Fast – on “twixters”, my indecisive generation
Folksonomy Notes: Considering the Downsides, Behavioral Trends, and Adaptation : Bokardo.com – One more downside no one seems concerned about is the way it encourages expression of the lowest common denominator. We’ve now got people trying to sum up their entire beautifully-written essays in a few pithy words…Let Google worry about that; write like a…more
Why ride a bicycle? Even more reasons – this one resonates with me: “As a protest of the vast inefficiency of having to haul around a 3000-pound transportation appliance just to go somewhere, and then having to find a place to put it when I get there.”