Wisdom Blog

Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Education

Zen and the Art of PowerPoint

Garr Reynolds offers excellent advice for improving presentations.

Dec 5, 2005
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Design

Best blog post linking to the TEDBlog

After reading Don Norman’s response to 10 Reasons to Hate Your iPod, Matt May declared it the “Best blog comment disclaimer ever...

Dec 5, 2005
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Entertainment

Tuva or Bust

While studying computer music in the late 1980s, one of my classmates brought a tape into CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Resear...

Dec 4, 2005
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Entertainment

Jill Sobule holiday tour

Jill Sobule kicks off her holiday tour with Cyndi Lauper and Sandra Bernhard.

Dec 2, 2005
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Uncategorized

Telemarketing: the fight-back

Here is a beautiful, beautiful thing.  A piece of technology ("TeleCrapper") that allows you to fake a conversation with a te...

Dec 1, 2005
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HabitatJam …brave!

The world seems to bursting right now with big ideas.  Lots of people have twigged that in an interconnected world, any individual can ...

Dec 1, 2005
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Music

Acoustic Video Game Music

Each year I make a pilgrimage to the E3 conference.  E3 is the largest annual conference for the "interactive entertainment indust...

Dec 1, 2005
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Biology

An evening with Jared Diamond (in LA)

Jared Diamond headlines an evening at the LA Natural History Museum

Dec 1, 2005
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Design

10 Reasons to Hate Your iPod

Everyone raves about the iPod’s design. Call me cranky, but I think it could be massively improved. Here are my top peeves: 1)  B...

Nov 30, 2005
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