Health 11 Simple Tips for Stress Relief Our mental health is very important. Millions of Americans are suffering from mental health conditions every year. Based on the data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in 5 American adults are affected by mental illnesses. One of the major root causes of mental health conditions is st Written by Alex 23.05.201915.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Health Acne Skin Solutions Trying to solve your acne problem can be like finding a needle in a haystack. With all the possible treatments available, finding the right acne skin solutions can be more like solving a Rubik’s Cube. However, you don’t have to feel like you are entering the Twilight Zone when you walk into the Written by Alex 16.09.201515.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Notes Allopathic Appetite Suppressant To know about the dangers of allopathic appetite suppressants, you should first know what they are. Allopathic medicines are those that are made by the general pharmaceutical companies and it is basically a name that differs from the homeopathic medicine makers that do not work the allopathic way, w Written by Alex 16.09.201515.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Notes Why Acne is common in Adolescence? Acne is a skin condition that spots the skins with pimples, blackheads and even freckles at times. Anybody can get acne. Even some babies are reported to have acne! But it is a fact that Acne is more prevalent in teenagers than any other age group. Its strike rate in adolescence is comparatively hig Written by Alex 15.09.201515.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Notes Talk at the Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence conference (caveat) “I’m going to talk about everything in the world:… self and technology.” 10 minutes on nothing about technology, then 10 minutes connecting the first 10 to mobile communications. Humans are “designed to operate with objects:” we’re the only species who also Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Smart home, smarter home When modern architecture emerged in the first years of the last century, it threw down a gauntlet at the feet of traditional neoclassical and academic architecture. Modernism’s style was stripped-down and functional. It celebrated the beauty of machines and the art of engineering, and express Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Amazing: stealing SIM cards from smart … This is going on in Johannesburg: Hundreds of lights have been damaged by thieves targeting the machines’ sim cards, which are then used to make mobile phone calls worth millions of South African rand. More than two-thirds of 600 hi-tech lights have been affected over the past two months, acc Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Project Prezi A while ago I created a Prezi for an end of cyberspace talk. Prezi has a cool functionality that lets you create a path or trail through a presentation (very Vannevar Bush). I’ve realized that because of the trail feature, this presentation isn’t just a single talk, or it doesn’t n Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle What can replace Cyberspace? So why should we care what term (if any) replaces cyberspace? Why should we care that the term cyberspace was used in the first place? Words have power — two kinds that especially interest me. First, words can reflect reality. As Raymond Williams showed in his great Keywords: A Vocabulary of C Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle The Best Idea For The Future My latest article, on tinkering and the future, has been published in the latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine. The piece is an effort to draw together a couple of my research and personal interests (though the boundaries between those two categories is pretty blurry), and to see the t Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Notes Russian flag or the flag of traitors? Found an interesting article: Examples of the use of tricolor by the rulers during the war There is an opinion that the Vlassovians used the white-blue-red tricolour only once at the parade in Pskov. With this opinion, they try to justify the abundant use of the tricolor by the modern Russian author Written by Alex 15.05.202015.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle The Things We Do for Love Music writer and candy fanatic Steve Almond (one of my wife’s college classmates, interestingly) has a nice piece in the Boston Globe about music, materiality, and memory: I start browsing the discs, and inevitably find one I haven’t heard in years and slip it onto the crappy boom-box I keep Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Ten-Year Forecast One of the distinctive features of Web 2.0, I’ve felt, is an understanding that humans are very good at certain things, computers are really good at different things, and groups of people are good at yet other things; and that creating systems that combine individual, machine, and collective i Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology RSIs and computer-related injuries This will probably be just a throwaway line in the book, or a paragraph at most, but I’ve been thinking a bit about RSIs and computer-related injuries as an example of the fractured manner in which we’ve tried to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds. Of course, you can Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle Solitude is worthwhile and rewarding and nothing to be afraid of Sitting in the quiet living in the pre-dawn hours, I came across William Deresiewicz’s essay on technology, sociability, and solitude in the Chronicle Review. For those who have access to it, it’s well worth reading. One book that influenced me when I was younger was Anthony Storr’ Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Mobile Mash-Up 2007 (Notes from Mobile Mash-Up 2007. As usual, these are my notes, for what they’re worth.) Moderator: Serena Glover, Tango Matthew Rothenberg, Flickr. Jessica Alter, Bebo. Kevin Yen, YouTube. SG: Where do you see communities going? Broader with less depth, lots of focused communities, what? MR: P Written by Alex 28.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle Cyberspace in China One of the things I’m trying to learn more about is what cyberspace means in different countries– or more broadly, the ways people in different countries conceptualize the Internet as destination or medium. This is what inspired my collection of terms of cyberspace in Chinese, Danish, Ge Written by Alex 02.11.201315.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology The use of 3-D printers is making engineering cool, and helping kids develop spatial skills. I’ve been reading up on rapid prototyping technologies, and came across an interesting argument: that the use of 3-D printers, which allow students to make quick physical copies of things they’ve designed on computers, is making engineering cool, and helping kids develop spatial skills. Written by Alex 14.02.201115.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Health The end of cyberspace argument and its implication for interaction design Last week I gave an impromptu talk at the Royal College of Art, outlining the end of cyberspace argument and its implication for interaction design. Chris Hand and Andy Broomfield, two recent graduates of the interaction design program, both blogged about the talk. The whole thing was kind of hurrie Written by Alex 03.12.201015.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lifestyle The younger generation has no romantic attachments to records as physical objects Music writer and candy fanatic Steve Almond (one of my wife’s college classmates, interestingly) has a nice piece in the Boston Globe about music, materiality, and memory: I start browsing the discs, and inevitably find one I haven’t heard in years and slip it onto the crappy boom-box I keep Written by Alex 03.12.201015.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Mobile Mash-Up 2007 (Notes from Mobile Mash-Up 2007. As usual, these are my notes, for what they’re worth.) Moderator: Serena Glover, Tango Matthew Rothenberg, Flickr. Jessica Alter, Bebo. Kevin Yen, YouTube. SG: Where do you see communities going? Broader with less depth, lots of focused communities, what? MR: P Written by Alex 28.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The use of 3-D printers is making engineering cool, and helping kids develop spatial skills. I’ve been reading up on rapid prototyping technologies, and came across an interesting argument: that the use of 3-D printers, which allow students to make quick physical copies of things they’ve designed on computers, is making engineering cool, and helping kids develop spatial skills. Written by Alex 14.02.201115.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What can replace Cyberspace? So why should we care what term (if any) replaces cyberspace? Why should we care that the term cyberspace was used in the first place? Words have power — two kinds that especially interest me. First, words can reflect reality. As Raymond Williams showed in his great Keywords: A Vocabulary of C Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Best Idea For The Future My latest article, on tinkering and the future, has been published in the latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine. The piece is an effort to draw together a couple of my research and personal interests (though the boundaries between those two categories is pretty blurry), and to see the t Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Things We Do for Love Music writer and candy fanatic Steve Almond (one of my wife’s college classmates, interestingly) has a nice piece in the Boston Globe about music, materiality, and memory: I start browsing the discs, and inevitably find one I haven’t heard in years and slip it onto the crappy boom-box I keep Written by Alex 30.01.201415.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Russian flag or the flag of traitors? Found an interesting article: Examples of the use of tricolor by the rulers during the war There is an opinion that the Vlassovians used the white-blue-red tricolour only once at the parade in Pskov. With this opinion, they try to justify the abundant use of the tricolor by the modern Russian author Written by Alex 15.05.202015.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
11 Simple Tips for Stress Relief Our mental health is very important. Millions of Americans are suffering from mental health conditions every year. Based on the data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in 5 American adults are affected by mental illnesses. One of the major root causes of mental health conditions is st Written by Alex 23.05.201915.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Acne Skin Solutions Trying to solve your acne problem can be like finding a needle in a haystack. With all the possible treatments available, finding the right acne skin solutions can be more like solving a Rubik’s Cube. However, you don’t have to feel like you are entering the Twilight Zone when you walk into the Written by Alex 16.09.201515.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Allopathic Appetite Suppressant To know about the dangers of allopathic appetite suppressants, you should first know what they are. Allopathic medicines are those that are made by the general pharmaceutical companies and it is basically a name that differs from the homeopathic medicine makers that do not work the allopathic way, w Written by Alex 16.09.201515.05.2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
