March 3, 2013
by Marie-Lynn Richard
“The idea to make make everything disappear so that you can just be in things and you can be in the interface” – Paola Antonelli, Senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the MoMA, talking about the … Continue reading
November 22, 2012
by Marie-Lynn Richard
I don’t watch that many movies anymore. Sure, I am going to see Skyfall even though in my head the Bond trilogy has long been replaced by a fantastic prequel that stars M as a total badass… Today I don’t … Continue reading
July 9, 2012
by Marie-Lynn Richard
I have gone through many times in my life where food wasn’t available to me. When I was in college, I took a job doing replacement shifts for the weekend attendant at a local religious museum. This was a better … Continue reading
February 12, 2012
by Marie-Lynn Richard
The cardigan was VERY nice and luxurious (considering it cost two or three bucks at the thrift store) but instead of wearing it, I decided to undo a sleeve and see how it would frog. I was quite the nightmare … Continue reading
January 17, 2012
by Marie-Lynn Richard
After 7 years of specifically living by this credo, I am still doing things with the people I have met along the way. And it’s quite easy to get started. When someone you know tells you what they want to … Continue reading
March 11, 2011
by Marie-Lynn Richard
I have become totally enamored with The Age of Persuasion, a CBC Radio show with Terry O’Reilly about marketing. Kudos to the episodes on ‘Green Washing‘ and ‘Luxury Advertising‘. In his episode on the marketing of expensive things nobody really … Continue reading
February 26, 2011
by Marie-Lynn Richard
Google recently announced that it’s going after content farms lowering the ranking of sites its new algorithm has identified as low-value. You know those annoying sites that offer absolutely nothing to the reader but a bunch of Adsense ads. This … Continue reading
February 3, 2011
by Marie-Lynn Richard
Last week I was flabbergasted when a colleague was offered a list of my friends and (OMG!) friends of friends, after signing up and adding me on Facebook. Why did this happen? I wasn’t able to replicate this ‘feature’ exactly, … Continue reading
January 4, 2011
by Marie-Lynn Richard
While there are many interesting TED talks emerging from TEDWomen, I enjoyed Arianna Huffington’s short talk on the merits of sleep. TED is often self indulgent for me because I just enjoy people telling the world what I have been … Continue reading
October 17, 2010
by Marie-Lynn Richard
I am starting out with Christine O’Donnell’s funny ‘Politically Incorrect’ sound bite where she supports her disbelief of evolution by asking, ‘why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?’. It’s obvious, to someone who has rudimentary knowledge of science, that monkeys … Continue reading