The Dilbert Blog: Absence of a Thing – “Recently I was wondering if life as a rock would be superior to life as a conscious entity…Perhaps you think that sitting around pain free would not be enough to make you happy. It would be boring and unfulfilling…But boredom and lack of fulfillment are types of…more
Notes from Sketches of Frank Gehry: His first house in LA became his experimental playground, and eventually changed the course of his career. I loved the idea of leaving the house intact and not messing with it. I came up with the idea of building the new house around it. – 9:30 Let me tell…more
An Online Version of Your Library – ok, I didn’t notice this before, but the new “My Books” in Google Book Search is…searchable. Well, I know what I’ll be doing this weekend…”Probably the most important reason you should build the library is because it becomes searchable. Imagine being able to find a scene from one…more
Dori’s Moblog: Design As Margaret Mead – “Some of the old Design people sought new lands to explore who they are and what they could do…some of the groups landed in the land of Anthropology [where] some said kill them for they bring disease. Others said we should take care of them and mate with…more
From William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle TED talk: > Imagine this design assignment: > Design something that… > * makes oxygen * sequesters carbon * fixes nitrogen * distills water * accrues solar energy as fuel * makes complex sugars and food * creates microclimates * changes colors with the season * self-replicates > Why…more