March 17, 2005: I was killing some time in the SFMoma store and picked up a copy of Thoughtless Acts, which is a sweet little book of photos documenting the ways humans interact with the designed world around them, from reacting to affordances to exploiting unforseen attributes and manipulating artifacts for their own ends. I bought the book because it highlights something missing for me in software design, the sense of being able to repurpose digital artifacts, design for creative (mis)use. There's just so rarely that many things you can do with a web site's controls (yes, jodi.org, blah, blah, but I'm not talking about making sculpture from a wire hanger, I'm talking about hanging your dry cleaning on the back of a chair, or even making a crack pipe from a car antenna). Anyhow, lovely synchronicity, here's a perfect example from sxsw. So, now, how do we go about designing for this kind of thing. And, do we want to?