Google Desktop seems to be the Mighty Google’s answer to Apple’s Dashboard, even encouraging developers to write plug-ins (which are no Dashboard Widgets). The interface for Google’s desktop modules maintain their classic minimal and austere look, which makes it kind of hard (not to mention unpleasant) to look at when there are a bunch [...]

This is quite amazing…
Summer 2005, a street of houses in Vienna’s 7th district – for a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will disappear. The fabric of signs and signals so characteristic of our cities, which normally fills the space between the architectural structures and the urban movement [...]

Malcolm Gladwell, writer of The Tipping Point and Blink, wrote an article on “the bad idea behind our failed health-care system”, titled The Moral-Hazard Myth in the latest New Yorker.
Mr. Gladwell talks of how (incredibly) inefficient our health system is, especially when compared to other countries - we “spend $5,267 per capita on [...]

Ed from Radiohead reminds us that sometimes in order to get yourself out of a rut or to stop repeating yourself, you simply need to stop and restart:
… you don’t realize once you’ve stopped how hard it is to regain the momentum …….. you literally get out the habit of doing it…….. but often the [...]

Am I the only one who finds flickr’s interesting pictures like some stock photo library? Huh, judging from the number of comments, I suppose people like that sort of photos.

Another day on the subway, another day of NYU continuing education ads. This one I have not seen before: “The class is two hours, the post-class discussion - 3 cappuccinos.” I’m not sure what the marketing geniuses at NYU are trying to tell us. Post-class discussion? Is that a date? [...]

On the F train this morning, I saw an NYU Continuing Education ad featuring a lady reading what seems to be NYU’s course catalog, with this sentence floating next to her head,
There are already five courses I want to take, and I’m only on page twenty.
Holy schnizel! Somebody get me a copy of that [...]