http://www.mehack.com Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:30:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Synthesis's network went down last Friday. Not down in the sense of our network connection. Not down in the sense of WiFi. I mean really down. Our main server decided that it was time to call it quit, and left the building. Really out. ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/04/21/bring-it-back-strong/ If you get a chance, Wagamama is definitely worth a quick lunch or dinner visit -- not necessarily for the food (although the Zagat ratings aren't too shabby), but just to experience a shift in restaurant efficiency. Something that I usually wonder about while sitting in a restaurant is the restaurant's ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/04/10/wagamama/ 21 proves to be an entertaining and forgettable two hours of my life that doesn't manage live up to my expectations set by Bringing Down the House. Peter Steinfield and Allan Loeb ignore all the nuances and the realities of what the MIT team did; what the movie ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/04/01/know-when-to-get-out/ At ETech this year, Kati London (of ITP and now of area/code), put together a great panel discussion entitled Artistic Experiments in Revealing Invisible Networks. Somehow I missed it, but at the finale of the talk was a reference to one of my favorite final projects from Every Bit ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/03/29/exposing-the-apis-of-invisible-things/ One of the items that we're constantly looking at perfecting at Synthesis is our project process -- since we work on such a wide variety of projects, its sometimes hard to converge on a single process that all of us can know, embody, learn, and execute on; its really a ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/03/26/run-it-like-an-open-source-project/ E and I are pretty regular supporters of the iTunes store -- a song here, a music video there, and an episode of The West Wing in the evening. After inspecting our credit card statements, we've decided that spending cash on iTunes needs to be treated as our version ... http://www.mehack.com/2008/03/23/latte-factor/