Month: January 2013

  • First They Came For The Libraries

    technoccult: Klint Finley Damien Williams on library closures: People who know about but don’t fully understand history may ask, “Why do conquerors and fanatics always go for the Libraries?” Our most famous example has always been the Library of Alexandria, but it is by no means the sole instance. And if you take a look…

  • Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel Delaney…

  • blakegopnik: DAILY PIC:  An untitled 1949 painting by Mark Rothko, from the National Gallery’s collection and until recently on view in a show at the Columbia Museum of Art. I’ve written a few times about the effect of black-and-white photoreproduction on Matisse and Picasso. Recently, I’ve begun to wonder if the rise of color plates…

  • Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • The internet of you

    Has wearable computing reached a tipping point?

  • In 1888, the psychologist Stanley Hall published a story about a sand pile. A minor classic, it describes how a group of children created a world out of a single load of sand. These children were diligent, they were imaginative, they were remarkably adult. More than a century later, at the architect David Rockwell’s Imagination…

  • Scribner’s Magazine – Edward Livermore Burlingame – Google Books

    Scribner’s Magazine – Edward Livermore Burlingame – Google Books The “sand-pile” at once became, as anyone who has read Froebel would imagine, the one bright spot of attraction…

  • Deadline: FEB 01 2013 Call for Submissions: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SENSATE JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTS IN CRITICAL MEDIA PRACTICE POSTED BY: E_Watkins | Wed Jan 9th, 2013 12:16 a.m. 0 Sensate is a new online interdisciplinary journal publishing works of critical media practice. It is currently accepting submissions from academics, scientists and artists interested in…

  • emergentdigitalpractices: emergentfutures: ““If you view the mass adoption of 3D printing as an inevitability – whether it be through people all owning their own 3D printers or, more likely, paying by usage at a local 3D-printing store – then it follows that many more people will start ripping out and replacing static components of various…

  • Darrell Burge, Marketing Manager for Airfix, said: “Having these great game apps out there takes the Airfix brand to a new consumer, which can only lead to more customers for our superb kit range. Not only that, they’re great to play too.“ Airfix app ‘drives more customers to buy physical kits’ | Toy Industry |…