Also last month, I went to a San Francisco Bay Area ACM meeting on component-based user interface design, which turned out to be a talk on UI design patterns. Aha! It turns out that SAP has developed an extensive collection of design patterns for their domain of business applications, and they have an extensive web …
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BayCHI April meeting on search
Time to plow through my backlog of stuff to post. Last month I went to the BayCHI meeting on Beyond Search: Social and Personal Ways of Finding Information, which was about social search and recommender systems. I got a few things out of that meeting. How do you recommend to someone that they'll like obscure …
PhD Comics creator speaking at Berkeley
I'll take a day off if I have to: Jorge Cham, the creator of the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, is speaking at UC Berkeley on May 4. (For a while, he was also tentatively scheduled to speak at Stanford the next day, but that just disappeared from his web site.) It's the Dilbert …
Visiting Mars and Cuba… in San Jose
Two Saturdays ago Brian, Will, and I went to the Tech Museum of Innovation to check it out. None of us had been there for years, so we wanted to see what it was like now. Well, sadly, we all found that it was mainly focused on kids and that we had outgrown it. So …
Dueling juggling videos
Once upon a time there lived a comedian named Chris Bliss. Chris liked to tell jokes, and he also liked to juggle. One day he juggled to the tune of a Beatles song, and audiences were thrilled. The act was taped and posted on the web, and soon e-mail started flying through cyberspace. "You gotta …
My del.icio.us bookmarks
By the way, in case anyone is interested, my del.icio.us bookmarks are at del.icio.us/jlin45d. They are even more random than this blog.
Good ideas going nowhere at work? Set up a market
The management of a technology company realized they didn't and couldn't know all the great ideas within the company. So they set up a marketplace, where ideas become stocks and employees can buy and sell shares in them. The more valuable the idea, the more valuable the stock. Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas …
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More restaurants to try
Courtesy of San Francisco magazine and Check, Please: Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant in the Sunset district of San Francisco (Muslim Chinese) Naomi Sushi in Menlo Park Woodward's Garden in San Francisco (Californian/French), named after the amusement park which used to be on the same site Los Cubanos in San Jose (Cuban)
Speaking of viral videos…
Here are the latest in web fun, courtesy of Clemens and Jason: The amazing powers of thermite, especially when it meets a car Lighting a barbecue grill… with liquid oxygen (a classic) What if the Transformers landed on Earth during the Industrial Revolution? The real life Simpsons introduction, commissioned by Sky TV in the UK
Viral videos spread from the Internet to TV
Another sign of technological change: grainy amateur viral videos posted on the web, and then broadcast on TV for your viewing pleasure.