Month: November 2011

  • Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker

    Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker austinkleon: @MattThomas: “Wherein I agree with Harlan Ellison that Woody Allen may be the premier science fiction filmmaker of our time.” Great argument.

  • Please, dear College Presidents, stop sending for the police. Our students face a difficult enough future. This should not be a time to beat them up, to spray them with mace or pepper juice, to kick and hit them. We are at a turning point, and leadership is required to prevent disaster. We need to…

  • bashford: The FXI Cotton Candy is a prototype USB stick-sized portable computer, powered by a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung Exynos ARM CPU. It has 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-out (1080p) and a microSD card slot for memory. It can turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into an Android terminal. No pricing yet, but FXI say the…

  • The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD

    The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD

  • A strong theme that emerged — which we certainly found entirely unsurprising, but which ought to give genuine pause to the cleverer sort of marketers — is that, even where respondents displayed sufficient awareness and understanding of QR codes to make use of them, virtually no one expressed any interest in actually doing so. Urbanscale…

  • Vernacchio explained that sex as baseball implies that it’s a game; that one party is the aggressor (almost always the boy), while the other is defending herself; that there is a strict order of play, and you can’t stop until you finish. “If you’re playing baseball,” he elaborated, “you can’t just say, ‘I’m really happy…

  • Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in ecology in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, with exciting new conceptual innovations and critically reflective returns to the work of earlier ecological studies. If ecological thought, in its most broad definition, investigates the interrelations and interactions of entities with one another, then the concept and…

  • Multimedia/Artwork O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies accepts artwork and mixed media projects on a rolling submissions basis. Please send a one-page proposal or description of your work, including any relevant portfolio samples, to the editors. Requests for completed works will be issued upon acceptance of a proposal. Please note that acceptance of a proposal…

  • O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies

    O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies

  • The Dorklyst: 7 Reasons You Don’t Want To Work in the Video Game Industry – Dorkly Article

    The Dorklyst: 7 Reasons You Don’t Want To Work in the Video Game Industry – Dorkly Article