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The aesthetics of technology

Different technologies have different kinds of aesthetics, and they affect us in various ways, whether we are particularly fascinated with technology or not. The easiest technologies to understand on an intuitive-emotional basis seem to be those that involve physical processes. Objects rotating, moving, being lifted and displaced, compressed, crushed. Gases and liquids being sent around […]

Posted 18 May 2010 † johan § Philosophy § Software development ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Presentations: one lump of sugar, or two?

Recently I watched a friend give a presentation on a research topic he’s been working on for years. I found the presentation to be fascinating, and the clearest explanation of his work that I have seen to date. But I felt compelled to criticise him on one point. In order to lighten up the speech […]

Posted 09 November 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Realtime disease tracking

I just found out about BioCaster, a tool made by people at my institute. It tracks news in real time and lets you view the spread of diseases geographically. I’ve seen similar services before (related to swine flu, etc), but this one lets you break down the data by disease and even by symptoms. Asahi Shinbun […]

Posted 15 May 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,