Tag Archives: Computing

Getting Glass

By alex | Published: 4/17/2013
Google selected me as one of (the many) Google “Glass Explorers”, thanks to a tweet I sent saying how I would use Google Glass, namely: #ifihadglass I’d find myself in the shoes of Vannevar Bush’s walnut-wearing (social) scientist, & I’d remember the names of my students :). — halavais (@halavais) February 21, 2013 What this […]
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Undo It Yourself (U.i.Y.)

By alex | Published: 3/15/2013
There is a TV show called (in the US) Junkyard Wars. The premise of the show is simple enough: two teams meet in a junkyard and are assigned to build something: a trebuchet, a crane, or some other device. I think we can assume that the collection of stuff is, let us say, “semi-random.” I […]
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The Coming Gaming Machine, 1975-1985

By alex | Published: 7/13/2012
Was going through old backups in the hope of finding some stuff I’ve lost and I ran into this, a draft I was working on around the turn of the millennium. Never went anywhere, and was never published. I was just pressing delete, when I realized it might actually be of interest to someone. It […]
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iPad for $250

By alex | Published: 1/5/2011
It is the season for resolutions and predictions. Instead I offer questions and metrics. Let’s start with the questions. What do you do with a $250 iPad. Just before Christmas, Amazon cut its basic Kindle to under $100, but I don’t see the first generation being offered by Apple for $250 any time soon. I […]
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