I have a cadre of amazing & free creative apps that keep me going: Audacity, Hydrogen (the beat machine), and the GIMP. While the online MC Escher symmetric pattern generator is much more specific than these, I think it’s a notable example of an idea reflector that complements more free-form creative tools. When I’m [...]
Traces of my past (whoa) …
There was a time when I lived in a nap room in Palo Alto. The Sounds were my heralds; Lawrence Lessig was my poet. I was an undercover defector. One night, in a laundry room off El Camino, I overheard an old couple talk about life. I was there, for every moment, writing this fractal. [...]
I think both Shumin Zhai and Henry Lieberman are right. The most playful aspect of their arguments, http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/zhai/papers/EvaluationDemocracy.htm and http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Misc/Tyranny-Evaluation.html, respectively, is that, though they ostensibly take different sides, they are actually describing the same intent, from different vantages. Shumin argues that HCI researches need to reconcile intuition with reality, using evaluation, to produce better [...]