22nd
January
2004
“For nearly 30 years Dieter Rams served as head of design for German appliance company Braun. Until his retirement in 1997, Rams designed all types of products, from radios and record players to coffeemakers and calculators, many of which entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art… Dieter Rams: ‘I have distilled the essentials of my design philosophy into ten points. But these points cannot be set in stone because just as technology and culture are constantly developing, so are ideas about good design.’”
posted in Industrial design | Permalink |
22nd
January
2004
“Below are templates that you can use to make custom cards, envelopes, and boxes. Simply print out the image, use it as a template to cut your fine papers, and fold along dotted lines.”
posted in Old media | Permalink |
22nd
January
2004
“We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, ‘consumer advocate’ for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.”
posted in Politics | Permalink |
22nd
January
2004
“The debate about the promised value of the Semantic Web seems to me to be missing a dispassionate examination of the success, or otherwise, of existing ontology based solutions. Clay Shirky is obviously right when he states that a single monolithic ontology will never work. His critics are equally right when they claim the Semantic web will only work if it is a melange of multiple interoperable ontologies.”
posted in Information architecture | Permalink |
