January 2008
13 posts
Stock crash and unreality
Ok, what I want to know is: with stock markets getting seriously bearish across Europe, and in the US too, what is happening in the other economy that is on hte rise, and of which we’ve heard quite a lot these last few years. No I don’t mean China, but the one which isn’t really there at all: Second Life. Is there an index of the value of the trade that goes on there? Has the...
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Vitra sale
It was the first time i’ve stood in line for a sale, and this one I’d do again. By the time I arrived at about 8am there were at least 150 people snaking from the glass doors of the Vitra shop. They were due to open at 9:30 with promises of a few items at £99 each (Eames lounger was on most minds, normal price £3000) I had a pleasant chat with three other design types, they were in...
Another Apple inspired by Rams
Yesterday G2, in the Guardian ran a piece comparing 1960’s designs by Dieter Rams for Braun to the last few years of Apple’s output by Jonathan Ive. I like his concludingg words. “If I have seen further,” admitted Sir Isaac Newton, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Like Rams, Ive is a modest and self-effacing fellow; and they both qualify as...
What's in the air at Apple?
Macworld 2008 starts tomorrow today, and Tuesday Steve Jobs will present his keynote speech. It has been reported that banners proclaiming There’s something In the air have been unfurled at the conference centre, and there’s been much speculation that the something is a thin laptop . . and we know who knows - he’ll tell us on Tuesday. But it just struck me, I read a piece on I,...
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Interview (roughly edited by me) of Martin, owner...
Resolving to speak in code
Ok, so I am trying to get this bloglet to allow comments, so that my readers (3 so far?) can moderate their boredom level by (a) passing pithy thoughts onto me and each other (b) let me know what really shouldn’t be on here, because it is boring their tits off. So far the comments line seems to appear at the top, and way too large! so i must figure out how to change that. I can tell this...