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• Recently on twitter.com/namho

  • First sun in days in Hanoi. Working outside, pilfering some free bandwidth from the members-only business lounge. [link] about 20 hours ago
  • After a long stressful week, I was ready to relax and watch a movie. Bad choice: Cloverfield. The shaky picture almost made me sick. [link] about 21 hours ago
  • Brain's grinding to a halt. Time to grab a cab and head back to the hotel for a nap. A very long day ahead tomorrow. [link] about 2008/11/20

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  • soik on Thoughts on Sustainability or How to Grow Vegetables in the City:
    i found your blog.. what a world! see this,...
  • happysphere on How Buildings Learn: Seattle Public Library:
    hi, I really like the idea of removable numbers on the floor. Since I recently wrote...
  • Green Sustainability Advocate on Thoughts on Sustainability or How to Grow Vegetables in the City:
    I wish we could garden on empty plots in our...
  • birgit on The Culture Code:
    dear nam ho park, could you please contact designboom http://www.designboom.com we wish to interview you regarding the...
  • Nam-ho Park on The Culture Code:
    I just finished GOT. As a bi-cultural there were parts that I could definitely related to, and I was glad that it...

• About this site

  Strange Systems is the random musings of Nam-ho Park 박남호, who was trained in architecture, taught digital architectural design, worked as an information architect and user experience consultant and now managing an urban design project for Hanoi. 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, and more recently been traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam a lot for work.

  His interests are, not in any particular order, architecture/urbanism, information architecture, design, internet culture, user experience, social entrepreneurship, and changing the world.

  More about Strange Systems. 

  Previous blogs:
  strangesystems.net
  uxd.forumone.com

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• Other sites to see

  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 Bu's Blog
  UX Factory
  PRAK's Blog
  DIGITYPO
  Monoukee
  

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