Tag: culture


  • The state of Texas recently held an “e-vote” to choose a new license plate design. There were five designs in the running, and over 450,000 people cast their vote for the worst one. Just my opinion, but Design Observer agrees with me. This always seems to happen when design meets democracy. Letting the masses into…

  • The notion that consumer-generated content lacks authority is not a new one of course. Wikipedia has been in the middle of this storm for a while now, and then there was that recent report (I wish I could remember where I saw it) about the proportion of web content ranked highly in search results that…

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    From the booking process on the Singapore Airlines web site. I only wish I’d seen this in time for Tracy and I to travel as Earl and Countess or perhaps simply Professors Smith and Cohen.