A proposal for an alternative/future desktop human-computer interaction method. One that incorporates, 10-finger, multi-touch input, to provide increased/added expressiveness to/for the user.
By R. Clayton Miller.
Bird's-eye view:
(ZZ)Zooming in:
Prints and Tees available.
Or.
How to conduct an audience.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, by Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde. Handmade originals can be purchased through his Etsy store.
Love this! A proposal/concept to improve/simplify the alphabet as we know it. First presented in 1950, by Bradbury Thompson, it seems to remain, however, just an(other) idea.
From the source:
To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].
The departing premise for such a solution, was the idea that, being the alphabet one of the ultimate objects of (human) design, it clearly/seemingly violates the principle of constancy/consistency, by having two different ways of representing the same symbol/sound.
In other words. Having, actually, 2 alphabets, instead of one (and 45 symbols to represent 26 letters).
High quality, high-def, 360º cycloramas/panoramas made for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. By Yanick Dusseault.
The, now defunct (?), Project Looking Glass still holds (the good) promise of a more 3D(ish) desktop environment.
A resonating Ira Glass quote. In a Sawyer Hollenshead work/poster.
Occam's razor, demonstrated:
Also. A reminder. Of the benefits of emulating/mimicking/learning/adopting nature's "lazyness" as an optimal strategy.
Or. How to make procrastination work for, instead of, against you.
Directly from the author's pen:
I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time.
japanese sayingto know the new, you must consult the old
