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glitchlabla: (via Game Art: AND-OR’s “TetrisMaschine (defect 4)” (2012) – gamescenes) In this project from AND-OR, real bricks fall out of the tetris game as the player completes a line (onscreen). When the machine runs out of bricks, it’s up to the player to pick up the bricks from the floor and refill the game.
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glitchlabla: (via Game Art: AND-OR’s “TetrisMaschine (defect 4)” (2012) – gamescenes) In this project from AND-OR, real bricks fall out of the tetris game as the player completes a line (onscreen). When the machine runs out of bricks, it’s up to the player to pick up the bricks from the floor and refill the game.
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uchicagopress: July 3, 1997 Jane Alexander The National Endowment for the Arts 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20506 Dear Jane Alexander, I just spoke with a young man from your office, who informed me that I had been chosen to be one of twelve recipients of the National Medal for the Arts at a ceremony…
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Google+ solves Google’s big problems, at least in theory. It delivers a social network—arguably better constructed Facebook—that lets it understand the connections between people. It also lets Google tap into a stream of real-time data, and build a search system around that without having to worry that it will ever be left at the altar.…
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new-aesthetic: Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. Mozilla — Collusion — mozilla.org
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The Barbie maker will produce the not-for-retail doll following a social media campaign. Mattel’s hairless fashion doll will be distributed exclusively to children’s hospitals and other hospitals treating children with hair loss in the US and Canada. The doll, who will be a friend of Barbie’s, will come with wigs, hats, scarves and other fashion…
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moocha: This Arduino Finger print sensor makes me want to make a diary that only opens for you. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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boldesol: Alan Turing is the father of computer science. He is largely responsible for development of the Turing-Welchman bombe, which effectively cracked Enigma-encoded messages during WWII. He created a formal definition of the algorithm and created the Turing machine. Without him, we may not have computers as we know them to be today. In 1952,…
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curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of curiositycounts: Excerpt: Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics:…
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smarterplanet: Researchers Trigger Memories by Stimulating Individual Neurons: MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing these neurons, the subject would lose that memory.…