Month: August 2012

  • moocha: I totally forgot to mention, I finally got to launch the app I’ve been working on for Caroline’s birthday. It’s awesome having an app in the App Store. http://bit.ly/OJVWuU

  • ebookcollective: Various Contributors, Deleuze and New Technology Formats Available .PDF Deleuze was fascinated by the machine and the technological. In this collective and determined effort to explore not only the usefulness of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future but also the innovative nature of his ideas on the topic, contributors highlight…

  • This gives new meaning to the expression “cheaters never prosper.” Last week on the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young reported that “dozens” of cases of plagiarism have been detected in classes offered by Coursera. While cheating is to be expected in the classroom, as students try to find a shortcut to a passing…

  • This gives new meaning to the expression “cheaters never prosper.” Last week on the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young reported that “dozens” of cases of plagiarism have been detected in classes offered by Coursera. While cheating is to be expected in the classroom, as students try to find a shortcut to a passing…

  • crookedindifference: Snoopy: The Apollo Astronaut Mascot

  • prostheticknowledge: Hypercube  Computer animation from 1965 demonstrating the concept of the 4D ‘Hypercube’, which could be viewed as a stereogram – video embedded below: From AT&T Archives: Two of the earliest three-dimensional computer graphics films. The films’ creator, A. Michael Noll, programmed the computer (most of this work in the Labs was done on an…

  • prostheticknowledge: Hypercube  Computer animation from 1965 demonstrating the concept of the 4D ‘Hypercube’, which could be viewed as a stereogram – video embedded below: From AT&T Archives: Two of the earliest three-dimensional computer graphics films. The films’ creator, A. Michael Noll, programmed the computer (most of this work in the Labs was done on an…

  • shortformblog: guardian: The Vatican’s official daily newspaper has appealed to the makers of the Barbie doll to put a bald version of the doll on toy shop shelves for children who have lost their hair through chemotherapy or illness. This is definitely worth consideration.

  • artstech:  ”Project RE_, is an experiment that combines custom 3-D-printed objects with old mason jars, soup cans and empty glass bottles to make entirely new objects.”  (via 1 | With A Little 3-D Printing Magic, Old Containers Become Anything | Co.Design: business innovation design)

  • In short, physics has discovered that there are no solids, no continuous surfaces, no straight lines; only waves, no things only energy event complexes, only behaviors, only verbs, only relationships. Bucky Fuller is pretty cool, too. R. Buckminster Fuller (via ecohouses)