Monday, June 07, 2004

v4n1

Think of Number
Sivasailam Thiagarajan
Charlotte - storyteller
Thiagi - not very mathematical and has not played this game before
Harold - taught math for three years, uses an algebraic approach and stored the information as an evergrowing equation
Lucy - loves numbers, "her analytical brain functions this way." she wins because she gets the number first.
Thiagi is next storyteller
pictures at bottom: boy and girl (braids/lashes, big hair) thinking of numbers


Community Memory: a public information netowrk by Ken Colstad and Efrem LIpkin
(c) 1975 IEEE - do they publish stuff like this anymore?
purpose of jounral "to encourage and develop teh dialogues which are starting concerning the desireability and possible forms of low- or non-hierachical communications systems which can be created, shaped, and used by people in their daily lives as members of communities"

lots of dragons, moon cartoons, celtic patterns, flowers, cars, computers, really non-representational icons, and of course dragons because it is bob, dancing computer icon -- though none of these non-human things are ever marked female except for the flowers. moons and dancing computers and rockets default male identified -- style of hat and shoes.

all letters to editor from men (10ish)
contributors has only robin allison and candy nadel among women
there is an article included from Computerworld on McDonald's and the Caltech students who used computers to enter 1.2 millione ntry blanks so they won $40k of the prizes
written by Catherine Arnst