Month: August 2013

  • notational: darksilenceinsuburbia: Vera Molnar. Hommage à Dürer – 400 aiguilles, traversées par un fil. Acrylic on untreated cotton cloth (plywood), cut needles, approx. 40 m thread (knotted once) . diptych, ½, 1989/2004, 84 x 84 cm. Heroine of algorithm.

  • drawingwithcode: Vera MolnarUntitled, 1971-1974plotter drawing, ink on paper, Computer: IBM; Plotter: Benson 40 1/2″ x 40” framed.  

  • faitherinhicks: IT’S A TRAP

  • Word For/Word: #22, Summer 2013

    Word For/Word: #22, Summer 2013 My friend, Scott Howard, had two poems published.

  • 3 Secrets To Designing Great Toys, From LeapFrog and Ideo | Co.Design | business + innovation + design

    3 Secrets To Designing Great Toys, From LeapFrog and Ideo | Co.Design | business + innovation + design To read

  • the new app Spreadsheets heats things up by giving users a tool to apply Quantified Self principles between the sheets. Created by Danny Wax and Tyler Elick, the co-founders of Ardenturous Labs, Spreadsheets uses an accelerometer and analysis of coital sounds to track the data of your sex life. Having first set its calibrations based…

  • A real god game, Molyneux said, is an open world based on simulation and emergent gameplay that lets you “find ways to play this game that us as designers maybe have never thought of.” Indeed, the sheer level of simulation in Godus seems to border on the obsessive. (via Godus preview: Ambitious, expansive, and “absolutely…

  • So the article asks, what about building something like that. Well, we did. Metaplace predated the novel. But really, the book describes basically what we built, and which is now gone. (The tech survives, within Disney, but isn’t used in this fashion anymore). (via Raph’s Website » The Ready Player One MMO was Metaplace)

  • Our data about MOOCs says that they’re not working. So, belief in MOOCs is “ineffable.” It’s about having warm feelings for technology and the hopes for its role in education. Mark Guzdial commenting on an article from the New York Times. The Two Cultures of Educational Reform – NYTimes.com | Computing Education Blog

  • humanegames: I spent a significant portion of this past week performing the identity of an expatriate Colombian citizen. In an effort to reclaim talent drained away by the War On Drugs and by the fifty-year-long internal conflict with the FARC, Colombia established a “born Colombian always Colombian” policy. I have dual citizenship. My documents, my…