February 2012
6 posts
“In the rush to gamify enterprise websites, a number of SaaS companies have...”
– Try to imagine where this kind of stuff leads. Highly-optimized dopamine candies, strewn around every app and website you frequent. “Games” to incentivize your consumption of gossip or the purchase of additional text-message plans for your phone. Death by badge.
For the record, the way...
Greg Leuch: iaminlikewithmybike: A jury in a civil... →
Speaking as somebody who was actually run over by a traffic cop on my commute, I can attest to the general antipathy that the NYPD has for cyclists and their limbs. I was raised to trust in the blanket trustworthiness of cops’ defense of rights and laws, but the NYPD, of late, has begun to betray that trust in incremental and worrisome ways.
iaminlikewithmybike:
A jury in a civil trial...
“This is how it works,” he said, as he peeled a yellow sticker with the name of a...”
– Oh, dang, anonymous Teen Vogue editor!
[“The Man Who Says No”, New York Times]
Object Cancers →
In any case, what seems more provocative here, on the level of design, would be to appropriate this protective stance and reuse it in the design of future objects, but emphasizing the other end: to allow for the scanning of any object designed or manufactured, but to to insert, in the form of watermarks, small glitches that would only become visible upon reprinting. We could call these object...