I've been thinking about the problem of how we derive moral codes. Historically, I think it goes as follows ( Read more... )

Travel to Rome killed my train of thought, but the point was ( Read more... )

Anyway, I had a thought that we might see the end of the third facet of fashion one day by empowering the other two. In other words, by offering an increased range of functionality and methods of self-expression (not just buying someone else's), people might have enough motivation to purchase items solely for those qualities. I imagine this will ( Read more... )

Wandering around London and Paris, noting the amount of space devoted to selling designer personal effects, has made me consider the concept of fashion. Why do we engage in it? Does it benefit us as a society? How might it evolve ( Read more... )

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbqHERKdlK8

All must see this (recently posted to Slashdot)

Hand of the future

Pretty damn cool.

Helping my parents install computer hardware via Skype video. Kinda fun.

to not post somethingI haven't yet fully accepted that my school years are over. There is so much more to do, I can't be stuck in one place. So I've accepted that I will delay the inevitable for as long as I can, by running around without a home or source of income (besides the occasional nude photoshoot). Right now I am in Japan, I was in China ( Read more... )

Pocket-sized laser projector!

http://dl.tv/2008/01/ces_2008_microvision_show_proj.php

courtesy of slashdot article:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05

Check.