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The Society of Postmodern Archaeologists & Mailcarriers
Ever have a word and you try to come up with it would mean if it was an acronym or initialism? I have found myself doing that quite a bit. One time I found myself wandering the city of Boston, entering random CVS stores and asking the people working there if they knew what the…
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Punk Entomology
While in college (1992-1996), I took a science class where our final project was a bug collection. We had to find, capture, and kill specimens of various types of bugs then mount them on pins. This macabre assignment dovetailed with the spikey, bleached hairstyle I had at that time. I had visions of creating a…
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Driving Directions HOV
So I took a roadtrip with my daughter from SF to Disneyland. We went down the coast on US101. When I hit a break in the Oxnard area I plugged into Google Maps on my iPhone the destination and looked for its sage advice on the quickest route given traffic, etc. It told me my…
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Video Billboards in Concert
Don’t know if it’s in any advertiser’s future plans yet, but it was in the dream I just awoke from – someone spent a lot of money to make a city-wide spectacle using those video billboards. Don’t ask me which ad agency snuck into my cerebral cortex last night or what the pitch was, but…
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Speed(ing) Dating
I was sitting in downtown SF watching the comings and goings of a much younger crowd. I was near a gym and there was this constant stream of people in and out. And in front, I saw this weird dance taking place. People would stand at the curb with their phones out and cars would…
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Airport Security
I was taking a class at Stanford’s d.school last week and the creative project we were working on had to do with airport security. We spent some time breaking down the entire process and discussing what were some of the feelings we might have of each. One of the things that struck me, is that…
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No Disclaimers
I work for a certain Financial Services firm and I see various legal and disclaimer text every day. It’s often (sadly) hilarious what requires disclaimers and how unlikely it is to release anything without it. And it makes me wonder whether disclaimer text has any unconscious effects on consumers. I am not sure that the…
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Dow Jones Industrial Soundwave
turn the stock performance graph into a soundwave that someone can listen to…for accessibility for the blind… also to allow people to tell a good stock by it’s sound… “that sounds like a winner!”
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Documemory
Re-enactments/Re-countings of things you remember happening (whether or not they actually happened). In effect, it would be the solidification of a possible life experience through the intentional recreation of supposed memories of said events. Possible tag lines: “An Alternative to History” or “How (I Think) Things Were”.
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To Do, More Done
There are a lot of sites that have tackled the “to do” list niche. Not sure if any of them is going into territories such as: Taking these factors into consideration could allow for Gantt chart style output that helps see when to do items can actually be done.