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I'll have to admit I've always wanted to have a house full of contraptions. Despite managing to...
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"You are in a comfortable coffin, lined indulgently in red silk. The coffin is buried six...
I watched a talk by the great Edward Tufte where he mentioned the idea of using elements of the...
Every time I met my friend Antony for a drink he'd say "You still working on that little...
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Vince, one of the three founders of flutter.com, had a ridiculous number of siblings, a penchant...
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Greg Wolff definitely had the most accurate frisbee throw of anyone I've worked with, having been...
The Xerox EuroPARC lab in Cambridge was a heady mix of Wallace and Gromit-style crazy...
Only once in my life have I been involved in a project that made a test user feel physically...