Month: February 2013

  • thecreatorsproject: Building digital devices from cardboard

  • deinfidel: Step-by-step DIY guide to making your own bound book here!

  • The eminent University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins resigned from the National Academy of Sciences on Friday, citing his objections to its military partnerships and to its electing as a member Napoleon Chagnon, a long-controversial anthropologist who is back in the news thanks to the publication of his new book, Noble Savages. Meanwhile, in anthropology,…

  • ladyaches: abaldwin360: PBS Documentary Looks at Right-Wing Promotion of Ignorance Through Textbooks. (Sierra Voices) – Texas textbooks determine what children learn nationwide. “I believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark … somebody’s got to stand up to these experts.” (Don McElroy, former member of the Texas State Board of Education). source Well, no wonder the…

  • 3 Reasons Indie Video Games Are A BIG Deal Right Now | The Creators Project

    3 Reasons Indie Video Games Are A BIG Deal Right Now | The Creators Project emergentdigitalpractices: So hot right now. Photo Courtesy of BroBible It’s impossible to deny: the chatter about video games is rising to a dramatic crescendo. Next month, MoMA will start exhibiting a newly-acquired video game collection, rumors are swirling that Barcade, a popular video…

  • Announcing Twofivesix, our first ever videogame arts culture conference. – Kill Screen

    Announcing Twofivesix, our first ever videogame arts culture conference. – Kill Screen emergentdigitalpractices: When we started Kill Screen, we wanted to show the world why games matter. We think an integral part of this story lies at the intersection between videogames and the rest of the world. Games are a lens to view life in a…

  • Announcing Twofivesix, our first ever videogame arts culture conference. – Kill Screen

    Announcing Twofivesix, our first ever videogame arts culture conference. – Kill Screen When we started Kill Screen, we wanted to show the world why games matter. We think an integral part of this story lies at the intersection between videogames and the rest of the world. Games are a lens to view life in a new…

  • 3 Reasons Indie Video Games Are A BIG Deal Right Now | The Creators Project

    3 Reasons Indie Video Games Are A BIG Deal Right Now | The Creators Project So hot right now. Photo Courtesy of BroBible It’s impossible to deny: the chatter about video games is rising to a dramatic crescendo. Next month, MoMA will start exhibiting a newly-acquired video game collection, rumors are swirling that Barcade, a popular video game-themed…

  • ‘Privacy tax’ creator makes his case, warns ‘software is eating the world’ – Red Tape

    ‘Privacy tax’ creator makes his case, warns ‘software is eating the world’ – Red Tape Colin, a tax inspector for the Ministry of the Economy and Finance in France, believes that corporations have turned the Digital Age into a massive tax haven which dwarfs anything high-priced accountants have ever pulled off in places like the…

  • Farevalue | Urbanscale

    Farevalue | Urbanscale This is what Farevalue does, by laminating an e-paper display onto the card; the same flow of current through the radio-frequency antenna that energizes the card’s logic also updates the display. And since e-ink is “non-volatile” — the display only draws power during a change of state — the new value ought…