Shrutarshi Basu 

Via Lukas Mathis:

R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI is probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I've seen in a long time. This concept proposes a multitouch interaction system that does not require a multitouch screen (and thus does not have to deal with all the problems such a screen causes), but instead uses a multitouch area near the keyboard. The proposed graphical user interface makes full use of this multitouch area.

Grad students are too poor to be stupid. I just spent the better part of the last 15 minutes standing outside because of a false positive in the fire alarm system. Technology. It never works. But as a result of this, I got some rather interesting insights into grad school life. Apparently grad students can get cheaper insurance because they do less stupid stuff. That makes total sense to me and the rest of the conversation revolved around how grad students are in general too poor to get their hands on alcohol or hallucinogenics. While the conversation was light hearted, there was some amount of truth to it all. The rest of the discussion was about typical grad student stuff: meetings, advisors, deadlines, the usual. As I move closer to starting my own graduate experience, all these stories give me some serious food for thought. I would love the cheap insurance and the freedom, but I’m still not 100% sure if I could do it for 5 years.