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