Month: June 2012

  • humanegames: Dr. Manhattan hears a Who. Made with Paper

  • Dr. Manhattan hears a Who. Made with Paper

  • Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the celebrated Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, on “the 10 antithetical traits often present in creative people that are integrated with each other in a dialectical tension.”…

  • Today is one of those days where, and when, I feel that I know nothing.

  • towerofsleep: Image: Kasimir Malevich, Red Square, 1915 JUNE MIX: RED SQUARE (click to DL) 1. Bullion – the age of self (Robert Wyatt)2. Here We Go Magic – make up your mind3. King Tuff – bad thing4. Neneh Cherry & The Thing – dream baby dream (Four Tet remix)5. Major Lazer ft. Collie Buddz &…

  • shopkarma: Philip K. Dick, The Turning Wheel and Other Stories “Radiation, certain death, a world blasted and lethal” Coronet Books/Hodder and Stoughton, Great Britain, 1977 4¼ x 7 inches (10¾ x 17¾ cm) $20 PURCHASE

  • Thus The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects was born, thanks to a unintentional error most McLuhan biographers sweep under the carpet. But, the legend goes, once McLuhan saw the typo, he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great and right on target!” The title of the book was suddenly open to four possible…

  • weightofobjects: “I was awarded this pin in April when I was named my high school class’s valedictorian. I was especially honored by it because I am only the second African American valedictorian at my school, I’m the first in my family to be acknowledged this way, and, because of it, I know that the person…

  • Videogames have long used certain styles of combat, controls, competitive or cooperative styles of play. What happens when you get rid of those? What are those games? For me, that possibility space is enormous. There’s all sorts of games you can make without any of those kinds of mechanics, and I think that is what…

  • [M]y mission is to have every precocious 13-year-old in the world have access to every bit of information they could ever want. Salman Kahn quoted in an article by Marco R. della Cava in USA Today. Sal Khan’s ‘Academy’ sparks a tech revolution in education (via protoslacker)