Wes Phillips

Carl van Schaik says it's the culture. They learn from one another. I sure learn from the people who read stuff I write.

Drinking vessels of antiquity.

On deadline? Need statistics to back up your project? Here's what you need.

"You've taken on a design challenge and come up with a solution that's been widely admired and won you accolades. But a year or so later, you realize you made a mistake. There's something horribly wrong with your design. And it's not just something cosmetic — a badly resolved corner, some misspaced type — but a fundamental flaw that will almost certainly lead to catastrophic failure. And that failure will result not just in embarassment, or professional ruin, but death, the death of thousands of people.

"You've taken on a design challenge and come up with a solution that's been widely admired and won you accolades. But a year or so later, you realize you made a mistake. There's something horribly wrong with your design. And it's not just something cosmetic — a badly resolved corner, some misspaced type — but a fundamental flaw that will almost certainly lead to catastrophic failure. And that failure will result not just in embarassment, or professional ruin, but death, the death of thousands of people.

Douglas Hofstadter reconsiders some of his notions about music and artifical intelligence.

American Heritage takes a comprehensive look at firefighters.