Month: November 2015

  • companies and organizations want marginalized creators to contribute to their events, but with little to no compensation for the work. The most egregious offender of this GDC, which is for-profit yet has the most extensive process for extracting labor for talks given for one of their passes, which gets most of its value from the…

  • companies and organizations want marginalized creators to contribute to their events, but with little to no compensation for the work. The most egregious offender of this GDC, which is for-profit yet has the most extensive process for extracting labor for talks given for one of their passes, which gets most of its value from the…

  • Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make:

    Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make: “A few months ago a super-user friend of ours, “Grumpy Mike,” spotted what he thought might be a clone on the Arduino.cc forum. He was right. He had been helping a user with their project, but the board wasn’t responding as it should. After…

  • stilleatingoranges: Critics panned it. A pedestrian cable drama sneered at it. Worse, its creator disowned it–loudly. And none of the foregoing, although ominous, is indicative of its quality. The film is Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a children’s picture unfairly reviled in 2007 and forgotten afterward. Between slick credits sequences animated by William Joyce, it weaves…

  • stilleatingoranges: Critics panned it. A pedestrian cable drama sneered at it. Worse, its creator disowned it–loudly. And none of the foregoing, although ominous, is indicative of its quality. The film is Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a children’s picture unfairly reviled in 2007 and forgotten afterward. Between slick credits sequences animated by William Joyce, it weaves…

  • mfortki: ENgendering Gender Changers Connections for Disconnections from Queer Technology  ENgenderingGenderChangers is a “solution” to Gender Adaptersʼ male/female binary, offering a wider array of gender adapters for the ever increasing complexity and demands of the Information Technology workforce. By expanding serial adapters beyond male and female configurations, ENgenderingGenderChangers allow for new and unforeseen serial connections to…

  • mfortki: ENgendering Gender Changers Connections for Disconnections from Queer Technology  ENgenderingGenderChangers is a “solution” to Gender Adaptersʼ male/female binary, offering a wider array of gender adapters for the ever increasing complexity and demands of the Information Technology workforce. By expanding serial adapters beyond male and female configurations, ENgenderingGenderChangers allow for new and unforeseen serial connections to…

  • Quest for coffee continues (at Four Barrel Coffee)

  • Quest for coffee continues (at Four Barrel Coffee)

  • Chris Ware mural on facade of Pirate Supply (at 826 Valencia)