Tobias Davis

I will never forget. The words are common now, almost enough to be a cliche, but they mark a sentiment which runs deep in America. The loss of the human lives wasn’t the only thing that gripped at the hearts of people worldwide, it was the suddenness and closeness of the attack. Certainly the number [...]

The computer interface uses an office metaphor for icons and data organization, which mirrors our natural tendency for hierarchical structure in other areas.

Recently I’ve been thinking about the concept of microblogging. Pretty much everybody online does it: Twitter is very common, but even Facebook status updates are a type of microblog. In particular I have been thinking about how we try to write the things we do into something “interesting”. Life is rather boring, most of the [...]

During my first week of the current semester I had the privilege of spare time, and this time I spent doing some final research on some scientific stuff that I won’t bore you with here. During the process I came across some boxes in the Engineering Library at UNL, these boxes were the size of [...]