Month: January 2012

  • 10 Essential Books on Typography | Brain Pickings

    10 Essential Books on Typography | Brain Pickings

  • it8bit: Classic Controllers Connected to Other Devices  – by Roger Ibars Part of an exhibit fusing classic video game controllers to incompatible items such as alarm clocks, cellphones, and even other gaming systems. Check out the entire series at rogeribars.com via: gamovr

  • stoweboyd: Unmanned and computer-controlled drones, with no ‘man in the loop’? William Hennigan via LA Times The X-47B is an experimental jet — that’s what the X stands for — and is designed to demonstrate new technology, such as automated takeoffs, landings and refueling. The drone also has a fully capable weapons bay with a…

  • sum1: ACTA – the infamous anti-Internat law – is one step closer. maggieblueberry: 3liza: ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law. It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure…

  • I’ve framed this as “in the future your children will be servants and nannies,” a provocation that gets to a deeper truth: the most problematic geographical mismatch we face in the U.S. is that large numbers of relatively poor, less-skilled individuals live in rural areas and urban and suburban areas that don’t have good transportation…

  • I’ve framed this as “in the future your children will be servants and nannies,” a provocation that gets to a deeper truth: the most problematic geographical mismatch we face in the U.S. is that large numbers of relatively poor, less-skilled individuals live in rural areas and urban and suburban areas that don’t have good transportation…

  • The idea that visionary geniuses are best-poised for radical innovation is simply misleading. Maybe Jobs or Steve Wozniak were visionary geniuses working in uninterrupted solitary isolation … when they weren’t busy working crazy-long hours with the rest of their über-talented crews in the cultural cradle of high-tech innovation. frogdesign’s Fabio Sergio says blending dissonant goals into…

  • The idea that visionary geniuses are best-poised for radical innovation is simply misleading. Maybe Jobs or Steve Wozniak were visionary geniuses working in uninterrupted solitary isolation … when they weren’t busy working crazy-long hours with the rest of their über-talented crews in the cultural cradle of high-tech innovation. frogdesign’s Fabio Sergio says blending dissonant goals into…

  • albotas: A Little Bit On The Papercraft Side: Download a PDF of this adorably evil NES papercraft by Alexis “Kekli” Huret here. (via Paper Toy)

  • albotas: A Little Bit On The Papercraft Side: Download a PDF of this adorably evil NES papercraft by Alexis “Kekli” Huret here. (via Paper Toy)