by David | Nov 20, 2009 | design, media, urbanism
A rainy day near Haymarket… Looks like it might spin. Maybe the sign will help. Maybe not. PS It didn’t spin.
by David | Nov 3, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing, technology
I watched with interest as Barnes & Noble released the Nook, an electronic book reading thing that’s pretty similar to Amazon’s Kindle. I immediately thought of Microsoft’s Zune music player, released well after Apple’s iPod had pretty...
by David | Oct 31, 2009 | culture, design, media, urbanism
There hasn’t been a halloween themed post proper on the ‘duck yet, but a series of random events (and the annual invite to GP’s house o’ horrors) have conspired to make it so. I was up at Tufts for a panel discussion called Framed:...
by David | Oct 3, 2009 | design
It’s been a while since we had an interesting update in the wooden electronics department, but two recent developments in the not-so-typical use of wood hit the ducky radar last week: Wooden covers for humanizing The smart and stylish humans at iamhuman have...
by David | Sep 26, 2009 | design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
Passport in hand and GPS in car, I crossed the river into Newton. The quest was to see The Two Silences of Heaven and Earth, an exhibition of photos and paintings by Sung Won Yun at the Andover Newton Theological School. Not a place that’s on my regular...
by David | Sep 16, 2009 | culture, design, transportation, urbanism
Alert micturator N brought this to my attention from the xkcd blag (no, it’s not a blog, and this is not a blig), although I suppose it’s something that men just know: If everybody uses the urinal farthest away from anybody else using one, some number of...
