Category Archives: asides

Deep thought of the day: Say you were feeling green. Or lets say you’re just stuck with an unwieldy hydro bill every year and having exhausted any easy options for saving energy, you’re looking for other ways to offset what … Continue reading →

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Thomas Purves | 6 Comments

Michele shared with me this great thought about design. That the way to evaluate a designed object was not by how good it is, but only by how bad it was or wasn’t. In this case a cell phone. The … Continue reading →

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Thomas Purves | 6 Comments

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” And you could have thought I was the only … Continue reading →

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Thomas Purves | Leave a comment