I juiced with the Philippe Starck Juicer, and it made me sad.

Juice flies everywhere. The item is not stable-- it wobbled with each turn. I found myself starting the orange on the juicer, then finishing just with hand. Gorgeous, but art not appliance. In case you were wondering.

Compare to the juicer i own, a wedding present from my sister. It looks like a Brancusi, but works beautifully. No splash, fast, powerful and has outlived a couple electric juicers my husband is drawn to.

When will people realize beautiful and usable are synonyms, not antonyms.

My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms

Visions of "negotiating meaning", "knowledge construction" and "student-to-student interaction" swam through my head. I wanted to share with the participants my experience of collaborating in a wiki environment, and how it feels to have someone else edit your document, how you see a concept from someone else's mind map. ... But finally, I ended up using wiki as pumped-up PowerPoint. "

Interesting story to read for anyong who thinks teh right technology will change/solve everything.

I continue to work toward getting widgetopia on the drupal platform. it's going slowly. The MT import issues are the last ones keeping me (I've never cared that much about the design, and am moderately content to use a drupal default design just as I currently use a MT default design. Although I have fantasies someone out there will suddenly make a design and email it to me saying, here, your site is dull..)