The Cosmonauts

Today we had our weekly lunch with Marcos “Maki” Menéndez of Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas.

Maki is—without a doubt—the person who carries the coolest gadgets around, casually pulling out an iRex iLiad (an Amazon Kindle-like device) and an ultra-portable Dell projector.

We enjoyed chatting about infodesign and other stuff, some highlights to linkable content:

• Hans Rosling’s spectacular presentation at TED, whoever says statistics are boring deserves a punch in the face.
• Paul Mijksenaar’s great work at Schiphol, Amsterdam; and his short but tasty book, “An Introduction to Information Design”.
• What the heck happened to Second Life? And why people still keep trying to replicate reality in 3D environments? It has all the cons and none of the benefits. At least WoW allows you to run around slashing innocent creatures.
• The difference between the “showing all the data” approach by Edward Tufte, and R.S. Wurman’s “selecting a presenting only what is important to the reader”.
• Myth debunked: Nasa spent millions developing a pen that would work in space
• We also debunked the mentos myth, however, after reading the article, I withdraw my offer to atempt it. Hey, stop calling me chicken!

Thanks for visiting our headquarters Maki!