Month: February 2013

  • voyager3: Been doing some work with the Rust programming language for the past while. It definitely appeals to my aesthetic sensibilities far more that C++ ever has. Unfortunately there’s not many libraries out there for graphics programming, so I’ve been rolling my own and posting them on GitHub. It’s been slow going but I’ve been…

  • emergentfutures: “Academic culture is a huge and diverse ecosystem. People who come along with grand plans about how everything is going to be transformed so often don’t have even a very shallow understanding of how that ecosystem works: You have all these Silicon Valley venture capitalists who are going to blow everything up and transform…

  • code drawing 2013 02 02 in Scratch

    code drawing 2013 02 02 in Scratch

    code drawing 2013-02-02 in Scratch 2.0 which exists in the browser and is served via scratch.mit.edu. this code drawing can be viewed and run via https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10056794/ with a dependency on Flash.

  • Yet children kick and chase handmade, lopsided balls with skill and abandon, competing for pride and joy—for the sheer pleasure of playing. (via Soccer Joy – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine) via @boingboing

  • 5 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

    howtodropoutofschool: 1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed. 2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the…

  • Latina Gamers Say Women Carving a Space in Video Game Industry

    nbclatino: Who do you picture when you imagine a gamer? Read More

  • albotas: Pong is Reborn with 8-Person Multiplayer Art group SuperUber, which seeks to combine technology and art, rolled out a new exhibit which focuses on the simplicity of Pong matched with the joy and interaction of multiplayer. Superpong gives each player a dial which controls a row of paddles. The ball then travels between the…

  • keystone

    keystone Keystone is a video projection mapping library for Processing. Right now it allows you to warp your Processing sketches onto any flat surface by using corner pin keystoning, regardless of your projector’s position and orientation. The goal is to eventually expand this library to enable more advanced projection mapping, such as projecting on 3D models…

  • – | OpenPositioningSystem – openps.info

    – | OpenPositioningSystem – openps.info At the moment, we are bound to the americans military GPS and network companies. As we are using digital maps empowered with GPS, which are curated and therefor have impact on our navigation and experience of our environment, we also have to think about the given technology.The technology is closed…

  • Real Time tweets Visualization

    Realtime visualization of Global tweets by Franck Ernewein based on Nodejs w/ Socket.io, Processing.js and Backbone.js