Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelderis a blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine MAKEand is co-owner of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing. Along with his wife, Carla Sinclair, he founded the bOING bOING print zine in 1988, where he acted as co-editor until the print version folded in 1997. There his work was discovered by Billy Idol, who consulted Frauenfelder for his Cyberpunk album. While designing bOING bOING and co-editing it with Sinclair, Frauenfelder became an editor at Wired from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth22 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'
My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.
John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.
I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.
The fact of the matter is that mistakes are really important way to learn.
I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.