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floresuprm: Reading Agrippa by William Gibson (part 2 of 3) What do we read when we read this famous poem? Put differently, where is the text of Agrippa? These are not simple questions to answer because this poem has been produced several ways, all of which capture certain intentions, whether authorial or of those who…
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floresuprm: “Agrippa” by William Gibson Agrippa as a Digital Object (part 1 of 3) Agrippa: A Book of the Dead (1992) is the first high-profile electronic poem, in part because it was written by William Gibson, a novelist famous for imagining cyberspace in the 1980s, in part because of its production as an electronic object…
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The threat freemium poses to what the video game industry now refers to as “physical media” has become so worrisome that traditional publishers like Ubisoft Entertainment SA (EPA:UBI) and Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq:EA) have begun to introduce their own lineups of free-to-play titles either to complement their current games or to replace them entirely. Still,…
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Something For Nothing: How The Videogame Industry Is Adapting To A ?Freemium? World
Something For Nothing: How The Videogame Industry Is Adapting To A ?Freemium? World futuristgerd: “Now that I’m in the ecosystem, I have to use Dropbox,” said Vineet Kumar, a professor at Harvard Business School currently working on a study of the freemium business model. “It’s just more convenient than any other option. Whereas with a…
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larmoyante: Original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland hand written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll, 1862
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The iPad, iPhone, and other handheld devices also rid themselves of the cursor, so that their users are not really directed anywhere anymore. This is an interaction that designers are apparently much challenged by—a way of looking at a page that is closer to reading print. Rhizome | Screen. Image. Text. (via paperbits)
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thisistheverge: Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘We fell short’ on new Maps app in iOS 6, suggests third-party alternatives Apple has been under fire since last week’s launch of iOS 6 and its new, in-house Maps app — and now Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has published an open letter in which he admits that the new…
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markcoatney: playboy: 50 years of the Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick Oh. So this explains why I’ve watched The Big Lebowski 28 times.
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Short trains of causality vs the wisdom of complex systems
shrinkrants: …the living human body is a complex, cybernetically integrated system. This system has been studied by scientists …for many years. … Being doctors, they had purposes: to cure this and that. Their research efforts were therefore focused …upon those short trains of causality which they could manipulate, by means of drugs or other intervention,…