August 26th, 2007 by mdMiss Teen SC in the Miss Teen USA pageant tackles a tough question on the failings of the US educational system. Yikes.
Fasten your seatbelts.
I would strongly urge each state Miss USA board to institute a writing and speaking test. I have no illusions that these contests are decided on the basis of intellect or […]
1 Comment » July 5th, 2007 by mdThere is a medium-sized list of things that I should do less. On the list is “eating butter.” However, when I saw a recipe in the NYT sunday magazine for homemade butter — alongside a compelling essay about one man’s experience with fatty, yellow heaven — I had to try it. So I just finished […]
June 21st, 2007 by md16-year old lost both feet on a Six Flags ride. It’s a terrible thing. Hopefully they can find the feet and reattach them. I don’t know much about microsurgery required to do that, but I hope it’s possible.
June 3rd, 2007 by mdSeveral students in Creating Infectious Action (MSE288) at Stanford came up with a very cool way to explain design thinking to others by executing, and documenting by video, a rapid design process. The four students, Mada, Ana, Dot, and Mannan are masters students in the class which I co-teach. They captured a totally authentic look […]
May 31st, 2007 by mdThis is truly hilarious…a cadet at the Air Force Academy caught dancing in his room alone. He didn’t know that his roommate had rigged up a video camera to catch it all for us to see. Most of the versions of this have been pulled down from YouTube for copyright infringement (I guess because the […]
May 29th, 2007 by mdThere was a hilarious sidebar in today’s NYT that recounted a focus group exercise conducted in Md — here’s the scoop…
From the New York Times, May 29, 2007:
Imagine that the top presidential candidates are all at an airport trying to get on a flight. There is one seat left on the plane and there are […]
May 29th, 2007 by mdMy good friend and former colleague Jeff Jordan just was named CEO of OpenTable, the online reservation agent for dining out. This is a huge coup for OpenTable and the beginning of a great new adventure for Jeff. I was very lucky to work with Jeff both at Disney back in the mid-1990s and then […]
May 28th, 2007 by mdThere is a really sobering piece in today’s NYT (“As Allies Turn Foe, Disillusionment Rises in Some GI’s” - Michael Kamber, pA1.) on the rising disillusionment among GI’s who’ve discovered that Iraqi army soldiers — who’ve been receiving weapons and training from the US — are among the insurgent forces attacking US forces and civilians […]
May 25th, 2007 by mdI don’t know why feral pigs are so interesting. To me, the pictures of them lying next to their killers are oddly compelling. I wrote about Hogzilla a while back and saw this AP story on Drudgereport today (one of the best sites on earth.) Truly a shocking story and image. I can’t wait for […]
May 23rd, 2007 by mdRecently we had a good discussion of an interesting topic in Creating Infectious Action — a course I co-teach at Stanford. The conversation was about widgets and the unbundling of cool content from the url where it originated. Widgets — small, portable units that are essentially mini-windows onto an application or pieces of content — […]
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