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  • Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com
    "The interface fundamentally determines behaviour." […]
  • Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: Carrying a Sketchbook, part one
    "Any real sketchbook is full of misfires, false starts and stumbles, with a few successes sprinkled here and there. If you were capable of doing a perfect drawing every time, you wouldn't need to carry a sketchbook! But the quickest way to learn how to do perfect drawings is to do a lot of crappy ones first...and learn from them. So don't view […]
  • zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2011/bib/hoare81emperor.pdf
    "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery […]
  • particleblog: Stories, Structure, Abstraction and Games
    "And that's why Chess and Go remain as enduringly popular as they are, and why soccer is the most popular game on earth. Robustness and elegance are the key driving forces here, and they are in direct opposition to the brittleness and complexity, the defining traits of story. " […]
  • CItizen Science Quarterly
    Looks like a very nice magazine. […]

• Documentaries

  • Step Into Liquid (2003)
    Remarkable survey of the cutting edge of surfing. We see the origins of tow-rope surfing (where surfers are pulled by jet skis into waves that are too big to paddle out to), the use of hydrofoil designs that put the board a foot or two _above_ the wave, and even the use of weather stations to monitor conditions out in mid-ocean, looking for giant waves. […]
  • Street Fight (2005)
    The story of the 2002 mayoral election in Newark, New Jersey.  Scrappy idealist underdog Cory Booker attempts to unseat long-time mayor Sharpe James. Striking in part because it shows just how James built an image and a feel around his administration, quite disconnected from facts. […]
  • Ghosts of the Abyss
    James Cameron's documentary about the real Titanic. Interesting both for the historical angle, to get a sense of what Titanic was like (much like his film, it seems), and also for the technology used to explore the ship. […]
  • Please Vote for Me (2007)
    An experiment in democracy, as we see the election for class monitor in a grade 3 Chinese classroom. We see extraordinarily raw self interest expressed in very different ways by all three candidate. How different are adults? Unpleasant, but memorable. […]

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