This just cracks me up. According to this story in the New York Times, the current theory about the Minneapolis bridge collapse that I blogged about previously is being rejected by the masses. Why? Because it isn’t what they want to hear. “Everyone” knows that the bridge collapsed becuase of poor maintenance. That is what [...]
Hard to believe it’s been three and a half years since I watched (on line) Mike Melville pilot SpaceShipOne into sub-orbital flight the first time. That was a really special moment for me. Seems like yesterday. Burt Rutan and Sir Richard Branson today unveiled a series of models, images, and pictures of in process craft [...]
On Friday Google unveiled its plans to invest $30 million in initiatives including efforts to: Create systems to help predict and prevent disease pandemics. Empower the poor with information about public services. Create jobs by investing in small- and mid-size businesses in the developing world. Accelerate the commercialization of plug-in cars. Make renewable energy cheaper [...]
There were a few stories published last week reporting that preliminary news from the inspection of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse last August indicates the bridge was not properly designed. It seems that gusset failure caused the collapse and that the gussets were not properly sized for the original conditions of the bridge, let alone [...]
Guy Kawasaki does a fair bit if writing about presentations and I absolutely eat it up because I think he is one of the better people you could hope to pattern your presentation skill after. He recently posted an interview with Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices [...]
Today marks the 7th anniversary of Wikipedia according to this wired article. I won’t bore you with the details about number of articles or daily visits, you can find them in the link. I’m a fan of Wikipedia and I’ve never been able to understand the objections from school teachers for using it as a [...]
I’m very interested in design for its own sake and for the practical applications and the smart solutions people find for everyday problems. I do a fair amount of radar scanning looking for things that I can apply to work or home. There are no shortage of websites and blogs for those interested in design. [...]
Not much commentary needed. These award winners speak for themselves…or they would if they weren’t dead.
I’m not sure how I feel about this report from USA today outlining concerns that the FAA has about Boeing’s new Dreamliner 787 and similar “fly by wire” planes. the concern is that there are over the air signals flying around controlling all sorts of important things, and that these are susceptible to hackers. It [...]
This week marks the launch of the Search Wikia project. For those that don’t know, this is the new “wiki” based search engine from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The idea of humans helping to massage search results is nothing new. It is in fact the way most early search engines including Yahoo! worked. [...]
