In a bizarr-o interview (possibly made more so by the fact it was in a German magazine), designer Philippe Starck expressed all the self-disgust and fatalism of a person who needs a career change or a very long vacation. Starck declared that “design is dead,” that nothing he ever did (not even his ridiculous robot [...]
The lead copy editor at The New York Times, Merill Perlman, explains in a Q&A why the paper abbreviates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as Hipaa rather than HIPAA:
“The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage” … calls for any acronym of more than four letters to be rendered with only the [...]
PowerPoint is under fire again. In an interview on Marketplace yesterday, author Dan Roam talks about how we could all be more creative problem-solvers if we’d put away our PowerPoint decks, with their limited menus of clunky charts that restrict our expression, and start scribbling ideas on paper. He’s written a book called Back of [...]
This is exactly what I need to be doing right now: adding yet another blog to my existing lineup of half-defunct hybrid-blogs (which, technically, are not blogs, but online journals I never update, so that every post I add to them begins with the same lame excuse I use when I haven’t called my mother [...]
