Ben Kraal

2009

December
November 28
October 41
September 37
August 43
July 60
June 66
May 42
April 49
March 50
February 42
January 29

2008

December 37
November 46
October 60
September 57
August 53
July 87
June 84
May 68
April 95
March 83
February 76
January 92

2007

December 71
November 58
October 46
September 36
August 45
July 77
June 65
May 93
April 41
March 39
February 13
January
Honda EV-N Concept, via hotwheels Normally I don’t...
Sep 30th
Warch Watch
This cheerful 1971 ad for the Honda 600 Sedan promises 40 mpg. These somewhat disturbing ads for...
Sep 29th

Let's review

Simplistic (adj): treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler than they...
Sep 29th
“Coveting possessions is unhealthy. Here’s how I look at it:...”
— A fine comment from one...
Sep 29th
Microsoft's 'Total Recall' project wants your...
Sep 27th
“Perhaps iSnack 2.0 is actually a post-ironic critique of the...”
— My friend Glen, writing about...
Sep 27th
Memo to the Guardian: you need to specify a background...
Sep 27th
aboveandbeyond: weese: A re-look at the Ford concept car...
Sep 26th
Dark Stalking on Facebook
Sep 24th
I went to an internal seminar here at work the other week. It had a title like “Building a...
Sep 23rd
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.”
— Le Corbusier (via mjhoy)
Sep 23rd
1938 Buick Y Job, the first concept car In...
Sep 23rd
The Gubbins Experiment: The positive vision
Sep 22nd
Warch Watch
browncar: Patrick Stewart narrates the greatest 911 ad, ever. Of course the new Nine Eleven...
Sep 21st
Harder to be a Gentleman?
Sep 20th
Looking on the Lego website for my 4-year-old (Ok, and for...
Sep 20th
“I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new...”
— Umair Haque, The Awesomeness...
Sep 17th
chrbutler: The image above is from a presentation I put...
Sep 16th

Instruction Manual? Sometimes you need a...

Today iTunes started acting up on me. “we could not complete your itunes store...
Sep 15th
“Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains...”
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and...
Sep 15th
Super Wicked Problems
Sep 13th
“Services are recursive. There is a front stage and a...”
— Don Norman, interviewed at the...
Sep 13th
buzzandersen: Portable Record Player (via Public...
Sep 13th
Joe Simpson, from MDB, drove Tesla’s new Roadster...
Sep 10th
“Computers have become ubiquitous, pervasive and getting...”
— John Frazer, Computing without...
Sep 10th
The Lifestream Filter Will be the Next Great...
Sep 9th
“Thunderbirds says that science is awesome because you get to...”
— Thunderbirds will grow a...
Sep 8th

The end of news. Again.

Newspapers are, if not dead, in palliative care. The model is broken and can’t be fixed. Bits,...
Sep 8th
clivethompson: Is your handwriting going to hell in the age...
Sep 8th
Discussing the emotional design aspects of...
Sep 7th
“What could be more bourgeois than writing editorials about...”
— Commenter intepid on The poser...
Sep 6th
BMW Oracle Racing’s new trimaran looks like it was...
Sep 6th
Interobjectivty Lessons with Bruno Latour
Sep 5th
“when a guy writes a blog about punking a style of dress...”
— An Affordable Wardrobe may be...
Sep 2nd
“It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile...”
— The New York Times: Facebook...
Sep 2nd
fro: Bovril -vs- Bonox. With my recent foray into...
Sep 1st
On Potential and the Assessment Thereof
Sep 1st
“Antonella is an attractive 28-year old woman who lives in...”
— This makes me so mad. Why does...
Sep 1st
Life In A Small Metal Box
Aug 31st
Warch Watch
This is my presentation from UX Australia. It’s about how we take lots of video during field...
Aug 31st