Strange Systems is the random musings of Nam-ho Park, who was trained in architecture, taught digital architectural design, worked as an information architect and is now user experience designer. To his credit or detriment, he has spent significant part of his life in Seoul, London, New York and Washington DC. As of Aug 2007, he lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
His interests are, not in any particular order, architecture, information architecture, design, internet culture, user experience, social entrepreneurship, and changing the world.
More about Strange Systems.
Previous blogs:
strangesystems.net
uxd.forumone.com
Here is a list of links to various sites. Some are sites managed by friends, others are ones that related to my interests, and still others I just listed because I visit them now and then. All are highly recommended.
Mike Lee
kottke.org
Laws of Simplicity
TED conference
Web 2.0 Asia
In Korean:
Eliot's Design Knowledge
UX Factory
PRAK's Blog
DIGITYPO
Monoukee
My 6 year-old daughter has now spent a total of 9 months in Korea. She now speaks fluent Korean, but I often wonder whether she thinks and dreams in Korean or English.
The other day, she hurt her finger on a toy and sreamed, "Ow!"
At least I know at a reflex level, she's still English-wired. The expression of pain in Korean would have been "A-ya!" (아야!)
Nam-ho Park
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How you doing? We miss you back here.
I imagine there's more recent research on this, but here's a decent place to start.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/Writings/Papers/InternalUses.htm
Corey - that's a nice find! So research does seem to suggest that pain/sadness is usually expressed in the first language. What's more interesting about the study however is that there is no definitive case of use of one language over the other, and most subjects used both depending on circumstances, even while dreaming. Wow.