I’m reading this book by Jonah Lehrer, ” Imagine: How Creativity Works .” Since I purchased it, upon the recommendation of Tom Rush, Mr. Lehrer has become embroiled in scandal of his own device. It appears he plagiarizes himself. As in he repeats choice chunks of his writing in multiple articles. Worse sins have been […]

"Lopez dumped from "Idol" after seeking raise to $17 million" I’m reading Larry Butler’s book. "Larry Butler, who’s that?" Mr. Butler was an artist development guy at Warner Brothers forever, when it was still the WB we knew and loved. And before that he was a musician, he opened for the Stones! Well, I’m getting […]

I could not put this book down. Do you know this album by Supertramp, "Crime Of The Century"? This was long before they had their hits, before they started singing about having kippers for breakfast. As a matter of fact, this was only their second record, and the first was not really the same band, […]

Now that Steve Jobs is dead, are we going to enter the dark ages of user interfaces? Pick up an Apple product. Usability is intuitive. You don’t need to employ a manual, it just works. But even though Apple has been making products like this for over a decade, no other company has mastered this […]