This 1950 video instructs the public on how to dial a rotary telephone. Before many years had passed, most of the public became fully adept at dialing rotary telephone dials. Rotary dials eventually were replaced, almost entirely, with “touch tone” systems, in which one presses buttons rather than dialing a dial. Were rotary dials to […]
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How to Kill People
“How to Kill People” is a TV documentary made in 1960. The underlying theme: how to design weapons that kill people, but — as the occasionally-coughing on-camera host George Nelson, himself an influential product designer, explains — does not murder them. The passing years have added blurrgh-blurrgh-blurrghiness to the sound track: (HT Paola Antonelli) BONUS […]
Norwegian video tips to avoid plagiarism
The University of Bergen offers this simple video guide, for students, about how to do your work without committing plagiarism: (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for bringing this to our attention.)