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The investment company controlled by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has agreed to acquire a “strategic stake” in Twitter, worth around $300 million. Kingdom Holding also owns major investments in Apple, General Motors, News Corp., and is the largest single investor in Citigroup. The attraction of such a big investor, particularly one with…
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jomc: The remnants of the acoustic defence system that once guarded England’s shores epitomise time’s contempt for technology. In the years between the invention of the aeroplane and that of radar, giant listening devices were constructed to capture the sound of approaching enemy aircraft. Initially, the sound locators took the form of huge ear trumpets:…
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slavin: So, this uses the only thing I can think of that’s more onerous and unpopular than using a condom, which is shooting a QR code. For the record, if you work in an ad agency and honestly believe that shooting QR codes are what most people do (outside of Japan), you should get another…
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itswalky: My mom stopped here in Columbus on her way down to Georgia to visit my brother and his wife. (Their daughter is due to be born any moment now.) She brought me a bag full of things of mine, as mothers often do. These are a little wooden Ultra Car and Danny, probably…
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OpenStructures Openstructures is a project of intrastructures.net The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative Meccano to which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures. (via Home.)
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kenyatta: Participate: Designing with User Generated Content Nowadays, many of the tools of production and distribution used by graphic designers are available to the broader public. And not only are members of the public turning into amateur designers, they are also invited by professionals to contribute to their creative process. The book addresses the curiosity…
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monstereatsdesign: (via Project – Intan Cheria)
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visual-poetry: “estrangement” by václav havel
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newyorker: Postscript: Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 In a parallel universe, in a luckier realm, Havel would have lived out his life as a Czech epigone of Ionesco and Beckett, a carefree son of privilege, free to write, to pursue his pleasures, to listen to the rock ‘n roll he loved. Instead, like a living figure from…
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The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the leading role the US has played in…