Month: September 2012

  • prostheticknowledge: Espresso Book Machine  Publishing system can create retail-quality printed books from file to bound copy in five minutes – video below: The patented Espresso Book Machine® (EBM) makes a paperback book in minutes, at point of need. Through its EspressNet® digital catalog of content, books can be ordered online or onsite at bookstores, libraries,…

  • emergentfutures: 3D Printer Form 1 Gets 6X Its $100K Funding Goal On Kickstarter… In One Day To give you some perspective, Makerbots start at $2,199, and the most basic Form 1 pledge you can make on Kickstarter is $2,299, and includes “the full Form 1 package including the printer, 1L resin, and Form Finish Kit.” Clearly, Formlabs isn’t looking…

  • …there is no baseline default distribution against which we can measure redistribution. Instead, there are a multiplicity of possible distributions, none of which is more natural, or less interventionist, or whatever than any other. All of these possible distributions can, in a sense, be called redistributive relative to all the other possible distributions. But calling…

  • There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please…

  • artandsciencejournal: Darcy Whyte Darcy Whyte, an inventor/artist, recently came up with drawing robots that can make portraits. Whyte was inspired to create this work after seeing a painting by Chuck Close.  “He used color juxtaposition to achieve additive color mixing. I believe the color gamut is actually wider than a printing process or RGB monitor so the piece…

  • Inkpad Drawing: Jonah02

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  • floresuprm: Reading the Agrippa Code Twelve days after launching the Agrippa Challenge on July 10, 2012, Quinn Dupont made the official announcement that it had been “cracked.” It was even easy, for those with the right kind of training in programming, mathematics, and cryptography– as becomes apparent from the published submissions. The link above leads…

  • floresuprm: A Close Reading of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” (part 3 of 3) The link above is not to Agrippa, but to an important part of the poem: the linguistic and graphical codes extracted from the disk image by Freek Wiedijk— that is, the sequence of words arranged visually into line breaks, indentation, and stanzas, often…

  • floresuprm: A Close Reading of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” (part 3 of 3) The link above is not to Agrippa, but to an important part of the poem: the linguistic and graphical codes extracted from the disk image by Freek Wiedijk— that is, the sequence of words arranged visually into line breaks, indentation, and stanzas, often…