Thursday, September 27, 2007

Chapter 2

Bottom pg. 43-top pg. 44 "At the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant... ...false evidence of a closed valve."

I thought this was a very interesting passage because it talks about how people can be led to faulty assumptions when things are designed poorly. The light to signal that the valve was closed would go on when you pushed the button to close it, not when the valve actually closed. Even though the operators knew that fact they just assumed it had closed like every previous time they had done it.

Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things(supposed to be underlined but i don't know how to). New York: Basic Books, 1988

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Check 123

Hi I'm Ben. I played football and baseball in high school for Chelsea. I also like to go wakeboarding and snowboarding in the summer and winter. I like to be active and do a lot of different things. Yeah, that's me.