I was unaware rodcorp maintained a list of creative people tricks/hacks/trucos/astuces/strategies. It's amazingly interesting to understand how Francis Baccon, John Cage, Umberto Eco, William Gibson or Autechre work! ...
[LifeHack] Work tricks
(Via rodcorp) trade tricks is a kind-of "catalog of secrets only its employees are aware of—such as how waiters with heavy platters know to look straight ahead, and never down". My favorite: Proofreader: If you’re reading too fast, your brain can “correct” typos, preventing you from catching them. ...
[Weird] Pourquoi Tintin est glabre
Lu ici (Le Monde, Paul Benkimoun) Le journal de l'Association médicale canadienne publie, dans son édition du mardi 7 décembre, l'étude d'un "cas unique" de "déficience en hormone de croissance et hypogonadisme hypogonadotropique acquis chez un sujet ayant eu des traumatismes crâniens répét...
[Space and Place] Architecture: interaction design
Now that the candidate for the EPFL Learning Center is chosen, documents can be put on-line. Last year, I work with Pierre and David on interaction design scenarios and user personas. Basically the idea was to imagine the different potential 'users' of the building: students, teachers, phds and vis...
[Research] Data extracted from cell phone use
In The Feature, an interview of Tomi T. Ahonen, a mobile phone guru from Finland. It's marketing-oriented (know your client stuff/market segmentation and all this sort of stuff) but he deals with the large amount of data generated by cell phone uses, collected by phone operators. in the mobile busi...
[Weird] The royal tit watching society (ornithology)
Well, I've never thought about it that way. The Royal Tit-Watching (Ornithological) Society of Britain is the oldest of the British Tit-Watching Societies. The society was formed in 1824, by Lord Roylott of Stoke Moran, Surrey. Lord Roylott was himself a distinguished ornithologist, and author of '...
[Space and Place] The Zahavi's hypothesis
Very interesting notion: “Zahavi’s hypothesis”, i.e. the assertion that, independent of the conditions of passenger travel, individuals’ daily travel time budgets remain constant. An increase in travel speeds would then imply an increase in daily distances travelled, a less dense pattern of urbanis...
[Space and Place] The Zahavi\'s hypothesis
Very interesting notion: “Zahavi’s hypothesis”, i.e. the assertion that, independent of the conditions of passenger travel, individuals’ daily travel time budgets remain constant. An increase in travel speeds would then imply an increase in daily distances travelled, a less dense pattern of urbanis...
[Space and Place] EPFL Learning Center Project
The architecture project for our Learning Center has been chosen. It's the one did by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. ...
[Weird] Nice Children beliefs
I used to believe is full of children beliefs website. As a young child I used to believe that if my belly button knot came untied, my skin would fall off. (...) When I was little, I would always wake up with snot in my nose. I thought that in the night a guy would come in my house and stick booger...