Garnet Hertz’s ConceptLab has a project with a dissected frog, its legs animated and controlled by a tiny webserver. Yikes…
Archive for May, 2009
Froginstein: Creepy Microcontroller Art
May 31st, 2009Wired For Survival?
May 29th, 2009
Yesterday I heard the bad news about a young man, with a young family, committing suicide. Describing such a tragedy is best left to poets. I cannot write words to do justice to such a situation. However, the story changed my opinion about a mostly weak book I just read. The book Wired For Survival gave me some hopeful thoughts, and reminded me of all the hopeless situations people are faced with.
The Impersonal Computer Is Boiling Like A Frog
May 28th, 2009
It is said that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out; however if you put the frog into a pot of cold water and slowly bring the water to a boil, the frog will contently get warmer until it dies. I don’t care to know if this is true of frogs, but it is surely true of all companies and a large number of humans. It is our nature. But it doesn’t have to be our nurture.
Simple Is The New Agile
May 27th, 2009
A steady drumbeat has started to find the successor to “Agility”, a now somewhat aging fad in software development circles. My current prediction is that today’s “Agility” will become tomorrow’s “Simplicity”. I may be wrong, but even if I am, there is an underlying aesthetic to both Agility and Simplicity that will never go away. And that is a good thing.
Prototyping And Agility Lower Design Risk
May 26th, 2009
Previously I’ve written about the inherent non-determinacy in Design. While I covered some of the useless and useful metrics organizations can gauge their design progress with, that doesn’t help anyone start and finish a great design project. The way to do design well is with prototypes, agile tools/techniques and usability testing.
