The good folks in Austin have announced another 200 speakers for SXSW 2015, and I’m on the list to talk about Trusted Filters. That’s the good news. The, well, I wouldn’t call it bad news, but change in plans is that rather than presenting for 45m–1h, I’ll be doing a 12m TED talk…
Please take just a few minutes, register with SXSW (it’s relatively painless) and then click on the thumbs up for each of my topics (links below).
Late next march in the Land of Mary, time travelers from the four corners of the vortex will congregate to celebrate their favorite Gallifreyan! That’s right: the East Cost of the USofA is getting it’s own Doctor Who Convention!
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Wonder Woman is a feminist. She is a feminist (or at least a fictional character who is a feminist), not because she self identifies with that label, but because that it is how she acts and how she thinks. Unfortunately, David, like so many others, is afraid to apply the supposed stigma of feminism, out of, I assume, a fear that he will scare off readers who think they are “not feminists.”
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Fonts like Dyslexie and OpenDeyslexic claim to have been designed with dyslexics in mind, mostly by weighting the bottom of glyphs heavier than the top. It’s thought that by constantly drawing the eye toward the baseline, dyslexic readers won’t wander or get distracted. However, there is no evidence that these…
Jason Ulaszek is one of the most forward thinking people I know about user experience and it’s growing importance, not just in business, but to humanity. Here’s a recent presentation he gave at the Product, Customer, and User Experience Summit (16 June 2014). Look and learn. Harnessing the Value of…
Hello, I’m back online after a month of (almost) silence. My operation had a few hiccups and one curveball for the surgeons, but I’ve come through the gauntlet intact. I’ve been recovering gradually over the last month — regaining my balance, healing the large scar on the back of my neck, regaining my strength…
I’m online. A lot. But for the month of May, I’m having to step back from the Internet and take care of a personal health matter. Without getting into a lot of messy details, I have an acoustic neuroma (A benign tumor), and it has to come out. Specifically, it…
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This is an incredible interview with my new hero, Y. Woodman Brown, the “idiot” who posted his passwords as a comment on the Washington Post. Predictably he got hacked, but not the way you might think. He’s interviewed on the podcast TLDR, and explains why he did it, and I have…
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Originally posted in GeekDad » UX for Good is an organization that brings user experience skills to bear on some of the most difficult social issues we face. For this year’s annual challenge, UX For Good be working with Aegis Trust, which established the Kigali Genocide Memorial on behalf of the…
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“My kid said he wanted to be an astronaut — there goes that dream!” space evangelist Tim Bailey overheard that statement while standing in line to pick up tickets for a planned (but canceled) space shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center earlier this year.
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I think we can all agree: The best dads are geek dads. After all, we are far more likely to want to play a game of D&D with our kids on a Saturday morning than, say, go play a round of golf with “the guys.â€
Just found this video of me speaking to a class of budding web design students at Spring Brook High School.
The Doctor is no stranger to animation. Even before the current reboot, for the 40th anniversary of the show the BBC released a six part animated series in 2003 called Scream of the Shelka, using a Ninth Doctor who is not a part of the official continuity. More recently, the Tenth Doctor has appeared in his own animated episodes — although the CGI animation is a bit stiff. There are also some fan attempts to animate all of the missing episodes of Doctor Who that were destroyed by the BBC.
When last we left The Doctor, he had just discovered that he had a Flesh dopplegänger, or gänger. Let’s call him DoctorG, to try and avoid confusion, because the only other way anyone has of telling them apart is by their shoes. The DoctorG has original shoes, while The Doctor…
I want to thank everyone who came to see me speak at WebVisions 2011 last week. I had a great time teaching the intricacies of web typography to the 35 people at my Wednesday session and talking about the ins and out of selling progressive enhancement to the around 200…
Originally published in GeekDad» Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 before launch Alan Shepard, was close, so, close — he ventured into space 50 years ago today, the first American in space, but a little less than a month too late to be the first human being in space. That honor…
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Originally published in Wire GeekDad» David Edwards, Author of The Lab There is a lot of lip-service given these days to the importance of innovation in our society. You often hear that we live in an “innovation economy,” or that we can innovate our way out of a crisis— implying…
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Originally published in Wired’s GeekDad» Doctor Who: "The Day of the Moon" Spoiler alert: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday’s episode, we’ll avoid talking about any future plot details. Despite giving us a good-old fashioned cliff hanger at the end of “The Impossible Astronaut” — Amy taking…