Month: November 2001

Desperately Seeking Bioinformaticians / The New Tech Gurus Are In Demand, But Dimly Understood

conferences.oreilly.com — O’Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. Clearly O’Reilly sees bioinformatics as a nice area to expand into. At least two books in print and a special dedicated URL: http://bio.oreilly.com/.

Incredibly Strange Databases / Unusual information collections reveal our digital subconscious

matt jones | work & thoughts

On the power of sketching: Interactive Systems for Supporting the Emergence of Concepts and Ideas (SIGCHI Bulletin Vol.30 No.1, January 1998)

Article by Carolyn Snyder who used to work at Jared Spool’s User Interface Engineering. developerWorks: Usability | Web architecture : Paper prototyping

Are you interested in information architecture? It sounds so appealing, doesn’t it? Information architecture. Peter Merholz of peterme fame always has something interesting to say about it. That’s how I came across this entertaining list: jjg.net: information architecture resources.

New Yorker article on why and how the towers fell when they did.

Mixed Messages on the Newsweek site is an entertaining piece by an Iranian-American visiting Tehran. He gives an account of the anti-American museum housed in the former US embassy, including games such as a “carnival strength meter where you pound Uncle Sam on the head to score points and hear feedback like, ‘Wow, you pack quite a wallop.'”