I'm more qualified to be an astronaut than I realized.

So there's been lots of miserable headlines in the news, but then I saw this one that made me realize that there's lots of wonderful things going on as well.

This also clenches my decision to be an astronaut. I lost a spatula on at least two occasions this weekend, and I'm sure I can keep up with the best of them, spatula-misplacement wise. Zero-G's just another challenge to my spatula-losing skills!
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Anatomy of creative minds

"If I follow the evolution of the field of design, I do believe that we have borrowed concepts and inspiration from a variety of fields including architecture, psychology, sociology and anthropology. In continuation of my earlier post on scaling design, I have been wandering around (intellectually) to search for new inspiration and concepts that would help me develop my ideas about taking design at a more strategic and mass scale. I think I have found some direction and want to share it with you, so that together, we can help define new directions, ideas, tools and language for what I now propose to call “MacroDesign”.

Don't Go Home With Guys You Meet on MySpace

Not to get all Bill O'Reilly on you, but does anyone find it rather lame that parents are suing MySpace because thier teenage daughters were sexually assaulted by weirdos they met while using the service? CNET reports that families from New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and South Carolina have filed seperate civil suits against MySpace and parent company News Corp., alleging negligence, recklessness, fraud and negligent misrepresentation.

How is MySpace negligent and reckless for providing a platform for people to post pictures and chat? If you went home with a psychopath you met at the Hard Rock Cafe and he stole your kidney, you wouldn't sue the Hard Rock Cafe. So what's the difference?

Long before Dennis Miller turned into a sour, bitter old Republican, he used to rant about how America was too conerned about "the children" and that the public sphere was being dumbed down by moms on a jihad for a G-rated world. This MySpace lawsuit strikes me as an example of what Miller was talking about. Our legitimate concern for children can be so easily misdirected. MySpace can't possibly be expected to guarantee the safety of its users.

According to CNET, MySpace will develop a software program called Zephyr to help parents monitor their kid's activity on MySpace.

Being Literal

The Memory Stick. In a world were it's easy to take yourself, or your brand, too seriously, sometimes being literal is good.