The White Rabbit (Taken with Instagram at Sweet Lady Bonbon Bakery)
CCC boys in back of truck going to work, Lassen National Forest, California (by OSU Special Collections & Archives)
“I’ll have a tabby ale,” said the puss. (Taken with Instagram at Laoban’s Tavern)
Learning: there is no time for subtlety in #drawsomething (Taken with instagram)
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Episode 49- Queue Theory and Design
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In the US, it’s called a line.
In Canada, it’s often referred to as a line-up.
Pretty much everywhere else, it’s known as a queue.
My friend Benjamen Walker is obsessed with queues. He keeps sending me YouTube clips of queue violence. This preoccupation led him to find a man known as “Dr. Queue.” Richard Larson is a queue theorist at MIT and he talks us through some of the logic behind the design of queues.
Whereas US companies like Wendy’s and American Airlines once prided themselves on their invention of the single, serpentine, first-come first-served queue, more and more companies are instituting priority queues, offering different wait times for different classes of customers.
Benjamen Walker is the host and producer of Too Much Information from WFMU. TMI explores the issues and conflicts of life in the digital era and regularly features some of the leading sages of the information age as well as original fiction and radio drama. It is very important that you subscribe to this podcast. He is also the host and producer of The Big Ideas, a monthly philosophy program from The Guardian UK. Again, it’s just too good to miss. Don’t be a dummy!
How about filling in the comments with stories of good and bad queue design? I know you have stories.
I argued in Fast Company last year that Silicon Valley’s engineers aren’t paid nearly enough when you consider the billions in profits they create for their firms. But it’s now clear that the industry’s surprisingly low wages for engineers weren’t just a strange quirk of the labor market. They were by design: For years, the biggest tech companies conspired to drive down salaries by illegally agreeing not to poach one another’s workers. The Department of Justice settled with Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Inuit and Pixar in 2010. But now several of their former employees have launched a class-action lawsuit against these firms, and the evidence emerging from the case is devastating.
— Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting fair. Thank Facebook. | PandoDaily
Those beautiful houses
I live beside.
Somebody please tell them
give them a clue
of you, Zamzam,
who shines like the morning light
like the scales
of a colorful fish,
while you were gone on Hajj
had many memories.
Your friend, Aisha died of love.
at long last [I realized]
both I and the camels
need love.
After dinner with Ghi and Alejandro (Taken with Instagram at Pho Sizzling)
Occupying Wall Street and Tahrir Square: Feathers of the Same Bird | Truthout →
“The tear gas used on protestors in Tahrir Square was manufactured by Combined Systems Inc., a US based company. The same company provided the pepper spray used in UC Davis demonstrations,” she tells me, adding, “This is a period of global unrest. It cannot be stopped. We will occupy everywhere.”
The Apple of Steve Jobs needed HyperCard-like products like the Monsanto Company needs a $100 home genetic-engineering set.
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Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
HyperCard R.I.P.
