Month: November 2010

  • This might be an old one, but I just recently heard about it while catching up on my favorite economy and finance Podcast — the brilliantly home-spun Planet Money. In it they are talking about their project to tell the story of how a t-shirt is being made..by making a t-shirt, from buying the bales…

  • *Nice homemade Dutch CNC router, there. If you can fab a fabber, you oughta be able to route a router. http://protospace.nl/ultimaker-en-mantis-machines-make http://www.flickr.com/photos/protospace/sets/72157625071449720/with/5036557238/ (via Spime Watch: the Mantis Machine | Beyond The Beyond)

  • Durex Readyjet – Condom Manual

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  • Lawsuits in the Mobile Business Apple Sues Motorola Over Multitouch via: Patently Apple

  • The most striking feature of diffusion theory is that, for most members of a social system, the innovation-decision depends heavily on the innovation-decisions of the other members of the system. In fact, empirically we see the successful spread of an innovation follows an S-shaped curve (23). There is, after about 10-25% of system members adopt…

  • IEEE Spectrum: Game Design: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science Blakely credits his gaming acumen to his space career, which included a five-year stint building payloads and embedded systems as a computer programmer and research scientist, first at the University of Alabama’s Consortium for Materials Development in Space, and then at Teledyne Brown Engineering, both in…

  • “While the notions of interdisciplinary philosophy date back to a renaissance synthesis of different branches of knowledge, interdisciplinary concepts and their applications have received renewed interest lately. György Kepes and Frank Malina were pioneers of these ideas already in the middle of the last century. They shared a humanist ideal which was perceived by many…

  • The Social Media Bubble | 24 Usable Hours

    The Social Media Bubble | 24 Usable Hours Technology’s Impact on the Future of Traditional Arts Delivery Systems