….and she’s off. My best friend, Jennifer Bove, is moving across the country. She’s joined Kicker Studio, a design consultancy that says, “We do interaction-infused product design for: consumer electronics / appliances / mobile devices /kiosks and touchscreens / interactive environments /robots / responsive objects.” Jenn and I have known each other 16 years as… Continue reading Happy trails, Jenn!
Month: January 2009
Thinking about Maxi
On Active Social Plastic, I wrote about Maxi, the pop culture feminist webzine I co-founded with Janelle Brown, Heather Irwin and Rosemary Pepper in 1997. When we launched, it met with both acclaim and criticism. We were too feminist, we were too lipstick; we changed the tone of women’s media, we helped to build a… Continue reading Thinking about Maxi
The series of tubes is out of control
Yesterday, I woke up to a bunch of comment notifications on a post I’d written about pneumatic tubes and the postal service in France on Active Social Plastic, my other blog. My first thought was, “Uh oh. Spam.” (There’s an inferiority complex for you.) It turned out that Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow at Boing… Continue reading The series of tubes is out of control
2008 cities
As inspired by Jason Kottke (and as reported previously on this site about 2005 and 2006… 2007 skipped because it was an awful December and January), my 2008 year in cities. A * means multiple, non-consecutive trips. I traveled a lot; I also lived in Berlin for the summer. Of my personal velocity, Dopplr says:… Continue reading 2008 cities
come visit me at girlwonder and active social plastic
I like Vox. But I like my own domains better. So that's where I've gone. girlwonder, my personal site since 1997 (and in other forms since 1995) active social plastic, my blog about architecture, design, urbanism, music, literature and other more intellectual pursuits Please visit me there! Read and post comments | Send to a… Continue reading come visit me at girlwonder and active social plastic
Paper writing time
The way things work in my PhD program, we have a 12-week semester and then we write research papers. The papers aren’t generally due within the semester. In the winter, we hand them in in January, during the reading period. I’m firmly in the middle of that period right now. So far, it’s going well.… Continue reading Paper writing time
girlwonder is back
Let me start this entry simply. I miss girlwonder. I’ve done less personal and public writing in the 3 1/2 years since I started graduate school. That feels like a long time. A year ago, I started Active Social Plastic to think about things related to my intellectual pursuits, but it’s not quite the same.… Continue reading girlwonder is back