MoMA Acquires “@” Symbol.
September 16th, 2010
Original post by: Cliff Kuang – Mon Mar 22, 2010 – What can I say, it seems MoMa in it’s infinite wisdom has added this historical symbol to it’s halls. Pretty interesting how simple things we see, and use each and every day, have a very rich a diverse history. See: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/22/at-moma/
The only reason I decided to post this, is that in my opinion, it is a pretty interesting story about how a symbol/word can have a long, interesting, and diverse history. Design has many of these kinds of jewels of intricacy that make for interesting design, this is one of them. Some things in design are formed from things as simple as the need to relate a simple singular relationship. The “at” symbol does that. Every-time you see this word, you know what it means. It has several uses in the modern age, and now takes on a greater role in all of our lives. So when you see this symbol again, maybe you will not take it for granted, how much language/symbols affect/permeate our everyday life. Enjoy.
Topics: Design, Exhibit, interesting design, interesting story, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City, Opinion, Thoughts, Wisdom
Looks like tethering is not coming to the iPhone
June 22nd, 2010
Well it looks like Tethering is not coming to the iPhone, at leased not to my iPhone. I jut got off of the phone with AT&T and they gave me the run down. Not only do I need to give up my unlimited $30.00 a month package but to add tethering it will convert my account from a $30 plan to a $45 plan. This would be ok if it was unlimited, but as it stands I use a little less than 1gb of data per month on the phone. If I were to add tethering and connect my laptop to it, just email and web surfing would out me way over the limits. What is with these people and what do they think that they are accomplishing? They are offering a lame 1.2mb download speed and 500mb up, I currently get at leased 2mb down from Verizon on my 3g card and 1mb up. I think that this ATT thing is a total rip off. When will Apple give us someone else to work with.
Topics: 3g, Apple, AT&T, iPhone, Mobile Marketing, Package, Plan, Technology, Tethering, Thoughts
2 Barack Obama Music Videos
July 6th, 2008
A friend sent me this link to these some political music videos for Barak Obama, took the 4.5 minutes to watch it… nice to see a campaign on the idea of change, but proof is in the pudding him into office… once that task is done, lets see if we get the change back to the values we have lost.
This one is called “Yes We Can” and i am not sure of the source of the speech becuse it is an awesome one.
This is one is called “We Are The Ones” and is probably not as strong as the other.
The movement of the political campaign into the virtual, from Hillary having a presence in Second Life, and Barak doing these YouTube videos, to Hillary and Bill already YouTube veterans and Barak also having fully embraced the bLogging community, has made for a remarkable campaign and it will be interesting to see how it plays out. In any case, we should be electing our first black president. I applaud the idea, and am saddened it has not happened sooner.
Please share these with everyone you know. I figured by putting them here, maybe they will get seen and shared… this is an important election, and we must make the difference. Make sure you CLICK HERE to REGISTER to VOTE!
Topics: Barack, Barack Obama, Change, Election, Music Video, Obama, Politics, Progress, Shared, Thoughts, Universal Brotherhood, Video, Vote, YouTube
The Energy Non-Crisis
June 22nd, 2008
Wow, starting to think the oil companies are starting to try and argue that tapping Alaska is something we should tap, oh… and the speculators are at the root of this mess. Watch this video… makes me wonder.
Re-Skinning 99% Complete…
June 20th, 2008
Well, spent a little time getting some things buttoned up in the WordPress world. This site is 99% there, and now it just needs some faithfull posting to fill it with some usefull stuff. Going to really start searching for the good things afoot with the Saint Louis Design Scene…. more feeds on the way to monitor some interesting groups within a new site i found called: MeetUp.com. It has some interesting possibilities for networking in the real world of Saint Louis design, at least those who are techno-savvy.
So the goal now is to make some posts, no promises – but i hope to add one each week.
Topics: bLogging, Design, Details, MeetUp.com, Saint Louis, Social Networks, Thoughts
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