Hey, happy Monday everyone.
You may not know this about me, but I would like to have a PC laptop running IE 7 to have kicking around the office. This is a long shot, I know, but if anyone is trying to unload one, or has a parent or coworker who recently fell in love with […]

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…the voting fever! But not the Obama fever, I’m afraid.

Nothing interesting happened today at my polling place, mostly because we still have the same voting machines that we’ve had since New York became a state. (Fuck HAVA!) So instead I’ll share with you my experience from voting in the 2004 primary. (Sharpton ‘04, totally not […]

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Virginia Heffernan’s The Medium column in the January 6 issue of the NY Times mag examines the ways the interfaces of word processing programs affect our mental space, focusing on Scrivener and WriteRoom, the “the ultimate spartan writing utopia.”

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Before I joined the 801a flock, someone made a dreamcatcher. It’s beautiful and inspiring, especially on a dark and cold day like this one.

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As noted in an earlier entry, I have a hard time writing anything from within the visual confines of a graphic user interface. It may be that, as a graphic designer, I’m overly sensitive to visual space. But when it comes to designed experiences I retreat retreat retreat. I need my mental autonomy!
What I neglected […]

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