Let’s accept, for a moment, the ridiculous post-9/11 restrictions on airport egress that imply I’m about an equivalent risk to civil security as an airline passenger as I would be driving a truck with 80,000 pounds of hazardous cargo.
Once they’ve effectively imprisoned me within the system, can’t they at least offer a fenced-in pen for […]
Tag Archives: idea
Airyard
May 4, 2008 – 6:22 pm
Visual weblog
February 16, 2007 – 9:42 pm
A crazy idea that needs to be written down to get it out of my head: a wordless, visual weblog. Posts are pictures with no explanation prose, and the comments form is a sketchpad for visitors to draw upon.
Daily Bookmarks
February 13, 2007 – 11:45 pm
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-13
Equine Criterium International
A horse joins the Criterium International peloton
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Pacifist Chess Set
Another gem from David Friedman: chessboard where the pieces are all the same color, but that only is revealed when they intermingle.
I want a SunPad
February 12, 2007 – 8:45 pm
I was flipping through Marc’s copy of Tog on Software Design and was intrigued by the “SunPad” in Tognazzini’s description of Sun’s Starfire film (which itself is very reminiscient of Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept):
She looks at the SunPad display, which now has the camera controls slaved to it. It’s as if the SunPad were a […]
Blipverts
February 5, 2007 – 9:19 pm
Lunch group brainstorm of the day:
- Superbowl advertising is as much about hype as about the actual 30 seconds of actual exposure.
- The Food Network may have actually sold subliminal advertising to McDonald’s.
- Even though popular belief is largely debunked, there’s enough possibility to convince advertisers that value exists.
So, someone needs to buy a very […]
Police 2.0
February 3, 2007 – 11:02 pm
It has been fashionable in our culture to address undesirable behavior by enacting laws that call for the police to make the bad people that stop doing those bad things by arresting them. For the really, really bad things, like possessing a leaf from a plant which makes you happy if you consume it, […]
Spellbot
January 31, 2007 – 9:59 pm
As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how […]
Instant buzz
January 26, 2007 – 9:14 pm
How to create an advertising sensation with a low budget:
Buy cheap TV spots on major network affiliates during, say, daytime soaps.
Produce a commercial featuring headshots of petite morte.
Ensure the Parents Television Council (responsible for 99.8% of non-Janet Jackson FCC complaints) notices.
Social Turing tests
October 13, 2006 – 10:11 pm
Attorneys in New York and Austin picked up my notes jury duty and sent dozens of their readers this way to review them. Then the defense attorney tracked me down at work just to ask a few questions about the case as routine followup.
So, I’m going to continue my newfound career in jury consulting […]
Jiffy-Med
April 8, 2003 – 12:00 am
I haven’t seen a medical professional for routine soma maintenance in ages. Part of the cause of this is the complexity involved. I need to see a dentist, an optometrist, an internist, an allergist, and probably a few other specialists after they enumerate for me ails I haven’t noticed.
It would be far easier to […]
