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Friday Links - 10/03/08
Mickey McManusHeavy week, light collection of links. Warren Buffett with some timely comments on the economy, architecture as special effect, a museum dashboard, a nice take away, and a quantum of solace.
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Friday Links - 9/25/08
Mickey McManusFun with magnets, stunning photographs of books, curious experiments in pay for performance, cat 5 compliant wedding rings, and an inside look at the future? of magazines (and every other surface the geeks can get their hands on).
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Confessions of a Sort of Luddite
Susan SalisI never thought I’d end up working at a company like MAYA— at least not for the nearly 16 years I’ve been here! It’s not that I have anything against MAYA. It’s a really cool place with really cool and smart people I like a lot. It’s just that in one way I’m sort of an anomaly. You see, while everyone here is rushing out to buy the latest iPhone or gazing with rapture at stuff on Engadget or Gizmodo, I’m perfectly content to hold my spiral-bound day planner close to my heart and look at videos of cute kitties and puppies on YouTube. Don’t get me wrong. I mean, I do own a digital camera (although it took me a few years to work up the courage to buy it) and I am writing this on a Mac PowerBook rather than with a Bic pen. And let’s not overlook the fact that I also own—and actually use—a cell phone with so many features I still haven’t quite figured out how to get my voice mail. So I’m not EXACTLY a Luddite—just sort of.
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Friday Links - 9/12/08
Mickey McManusBeing a bird, alive, silly, human, and potentially ground beef. Plus don’t miss a new form of text entry and tips for collecting humans.
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Friday Links - 9/05/08
Mickey McManusEnglish language is a mess, trusting what we see, what it feels like to make code, pointillist telepresence, an operating system about nothing, and as we may (or may not have enough time to) think.
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What does it feel like to make code?
Mike HigginsIf you take up a new art form, even if you fail to become extremely proficient, you may notice a change in how you perceive the world. I am not a particularly adept photographer, but I’ve spent enough time learning to understand the medium that it has affected my vision: I see light and shadow and geometry now in a way different from how I saw them before.
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Friday Links - 8/29/08
Mickey McManusLight leftly longingly lately lamentable links lie in wait…
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Investing in Innovation
Design and innovation reporter Reena Jana from Business Week talks about innovation during these tough economic times.
Read original articleA New Era In Robotics Has Arrived!
The Wall Street Journal picked up our exciting work in Edible Robotics today. It was something we did in good fun as part of something called Robot250. So, not only do we make powerful technology easy to use, we can make it edible too.
For more clips and background (or to make your own edible robot) check out our MAYAmake site
Read original articlePittsburgh Technology Council: The MAYA Sign
A Pittsburgh Technology Council blog features an article about our shiny new programmable MAYA sign.
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Healthcare Design '08
MAYA CEO Mickey McManus was asked to keynote HEALTHCARE DESIGN 08 is the premier conference devoted to how the DESIGN of responsible built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future.
IDEA 2008, pre-conference workshop
MAYA Human Sciences Director David Bishop and Visual Designer Paul Gould will will reprise their full-day, pre-conference workshop on Information Architecture at this year’s IDEA 2008 conference in Chicago.