Archive of stories published by Igloo in the Rainforest – Medium

Igloo in the Rainforest

Sign in Get started

Archive of stories published by Igloo in the Rainforest

All

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Illustrations of Steve Jobs: Is Jobs in Heaven?

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Hwang’s Law

This is an article that I recently wrote for Suite 101: Hwang’s Law Comes to an End- Samsung Electronics Fails to Double Memory Chip Capacity

For eight years, Samsung had doubled memory density each year. The company had dubbed this phenomenon as “Hwang’s Law” in 2002. It was…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Thiebaud’s cakes cost $350,000

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”400" caption=”Close-up of “Cake Bell””]

Close-up of Cake Bell

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

YSL garments inspired by art

Many of Yves Saint Laurent’s designs were inspired by art. Some of them are on display at the de Young museum in San Francisco, as part of a special retrospective.

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Laptop Stickers

I’ve been planning for some time to write an article on laptop stickers, so when I saw Andrew Reynolds with a flamboyantly…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Why blame Elsevier? Understanding who “owns” scholarly work

There is currently a very angry discussion among some academics about how the publisher Elsevier is taking down papers that were published by Elsevier and uploaded onto Academia.edu by the author. (This blog post gives a…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Wearing hanbok in Second Life

Modeling my hanbok (traditional Korean dress) line in Second Life. I designed this line of Korean dresses because when I first joined Second Life in 2006, there were no shops that sold Korean dresses, although there were a lot of Japanese and Chinese costumes. These dresses…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Roy Lichtenstein retrospective: copycat or innovator?

[caption id=”attachment_2875" align=”aligncenter” width=”750"]

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Jumping into Escher: Monument Valley

This is what it must feel like to be inside the mind of M. C. Escher.

Monument Valley is a game with 2-dimensional graphics that can never be 3-dimensional. One has to abandon 3D spatial rotation skills and give into the false reality that…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Vicious and Ingenious Social Media Campaign Against Shell: Who is the Joke on?

Kashmir Hill of Forbes has a great article summarizing the “nightmare” that the Shell Oil company is experiencing due to an anti-Shell social media campaign that was funded by Greenpeace. But…

These were the top 10 stories published by Igloo in the Rainforest; you can also dive into yearly archives: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

About

Igloo in the Rainforest

Personal Blog of Yvette Wohn

More information

Tags

Monument Valley

Editors