I enjoyed reading this Seattle Times article on the University of Washington Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab in today’s paper: virtual reality meets medicine. I think this appeals to the geek in me and also the woman who didn’t become a doctor but still likes to read about it… Plenty of interfacing is going on […]
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The HIT lab: “I want to break the glass”
April 11th, 2004 · Comments Off on The HIT lab: “I want to break the glass”
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One museum we’ll be visiting
April 11th, 2004 · 1 Comment
We don’t go over to Seattle often, and we don’t make it to many museums. But somehow I think we’ll be making a trip to Paul Allen’s new Science Fiction and Hall of Fame Museum… From Thursday’s Seattle Times: Unique sci-fi museum ready for launch The zillionaire philanthropist who named a company Vulcan has put […]
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Coase’s Penguin: creativity & play
April 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on Coase’s Penguin: creativity & play
One night, while Ted and I were discussing my idea of creating a group blog/publication for Bainbridge Island, my husband mentioned Yochai Benkler‘s paper on “commons-based peer production”: Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and The Nature of the Firm. Ted read it last year. I finished reading the paper this afternoon, and I appreciate how Benkler’s […]
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TV is torture
March 25th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Strange night tonight. Not only am I watching TV, I’m watching it alone. I’m sitting in Ted’s office watching the world championships in figure skating playing on his computer monitor. I’m recording it so he can see it when he comes home. The other day Lisa Williams wrote about her visions of TV in Talking […]
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Gadget bag dreaming
March 21st, 2004 · 1 Comment
I’m missing my husband but I’m also missing our camera. He took it with him to D.C. and in the past three days I’ve had quite a few times when I wished I could take a picture. We have a film camera, but I hardly use it any more. It seems archaic and insufficient. The […]
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