Month: May 2013

  • worsethandetroit: mostlysignssomeportents: What Twitter used to ask of you. What it asks now. If my account is anything to go by it’s still pretty banal and shallow actually.

  • theonlymagicleftisart: These wonderful little guys are Tinybooks.Hey there, little fella! made me look.

  • dbreunig: Apple’s voice recognition seems be optimized for Ray Kurzweil’s name. No matter how I try to muddle the words by saying them quickly, slurred, with different pronunciations of Kurzweil… It nails it every time, ruining any attempt to mock Kurzweil with the state of human/machine interfaces. “Triveran” was my control. That’s how iOS hears…

  • lifeandcode: #8BITMOOC: What good are points? 8bitmooc: When I originally conceived this project, I was thinking about it in the context of an in-person course that would be graded by experience points. You start off at level F, and then have to get experience points to gain levels up to an A+. However, in the…

  • Colombia’s Vallenato Festival crowns new king

    Colombia’s Vallenato Festival crowns new king seven min video of hot award winning performance. accordion, bongo, and raspa. history of vallenato musical form from Colombia.

  • Posey’s been re-elected twice since then, and on April 17, he got the chance to stare down the president’s science czar, John Holdren. Posey and fellow Republicans on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee wanted Holdren to explain why the National Science Foundation was wasting so much money from an asked-for budget of $7.6 billion.…

  • There is always something or someone to blame in our struggle for education reform. Sometimes it’s the “bad teachers” who get the blame. Other times it’s standardized testing, insufficient funding, or slow-moving bureaucracy. I blame grades. Grading students, from A to F, has become synonymous with education itself. Report-card day is an American rite of…

  • critical toy torso sketch. I’m experimenting with two types, a soft pliable plush, and a solid one with articulated joinery. I think that the latter will be harder to wire up, actuall.

  • Director, Games Job Apply now » Date: Apr 24, 2013 Location: New York, NY, US Job Description: The Director is a newly created role that will be responsible for the New York Times digital crosswords and other games. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, innovator and data-driven professional. This position requires a passion for…