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prostheticknowledge: Adrift by Tom Campbell Interactive “non-game” places you in an adrift small boat in the middle of nowhere: In this boat simulator you have lost your sail and now adrift in the deep ocean. I chose two themes for this MiniLD. Taking the ‘Not-a-game’ theme and using the boat as more of an experience.…
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99% Invisible: Episode 64- Derelict Dome
99% Invisible: Episode 64- Derelict Dome 99percentinvisible: In the Cape Cod town of Woods Hole, buildings do not usually look like this: (Credit: Will Coley) Producer Katie Klocksin was pretty surprised when she came across it. She found a way inside. (Credit: JP Davidson) Katie started asking around about the Dome. She found it was…
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futurejournalismproject: I Don’t Usually Post Advertisements, But When I Do… DuckDuckGo, the privacy aware search engine, takes on Google over “search personalization” and the effect this has on the results we see when seeking information. The ad is spot on. As we increasingly drive our technologies to produce information “just for us”, and get just the…
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ianbrooks: Low Poly Mask by Kongorilla We don’t live in a neon-glow 80’s version of a Dystopian Big Brother state just yet (but there’s still time!), though artist Kongorilla is ready to help with your Sci-Fi Anonymous needs. The Low Poly Mask is easily recreated with thick paper and glow-in-the-dark tape if you want to…
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The Sewickley Arts Initiative is readying an intriguing exhibition that should attract gamers and people interested in social issues and education, not to mention art-lovers. Input/output is a show by artists who use games to present interactive art addressing social issues such as immigration. (via Games as art in new gallery show | Program Notes)
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The “Venus of Cupertino” by London-based designers Venus Design Studio is “a sculptural docking station inspired by the curvaceous forms and symbolism of ancient Venus figurines—she is a fertility goddess for the technology age.” You can pre-order one now for $199.00 at their website. (via Dangerous Minds | Venus of Cupertino: Crazy cool iPad docking…
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emergentfutures: Working glider 3D printed directly onto tissue paper Based on an earlier glider (the Bukobot Fly) that was entirely 3D printed, the PaperFly is instead a minimal frame printed directly onto a sheet of tissue paper! Andrew also put a tutorial on Instructables that covers the prep work necessary to make one of the gliders. Basically, in…
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itswalky: beeftony: Since David Willis isn’t posting this in honor of today’s news, it falls to me… …am I a wizard?
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The “disposition matrix” has been developed and will be overseen by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). One of its purposes is “to augment” the “separate but overlapping kill lists” maintained by the CIA and the Pentagon: to serve, in other words, as the centralized clearinghouse for determining who will be executed without due process based…
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“Mechanical Bride” by Ted Warnell
“Mechanical Bride” by Ted Warnell floresuprm: This conceptual poem exists as a record of an online performance. To best appreciate the event and its record, one should be aware of several contexts: Marcel Duchamp’s piece titled The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (a.k.a. The Large Glass). (In French: La mariée mise à nu…