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fyprocessing: christophercotton: Frogger written by one of my students at Young Scholars where I teach kids how to write games during a one week course. Your student did a nice job here. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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futurescope: Researchers create micro-battery with 3D printer From Engadget: We often hear about the coming nanobot revolution, but just how are scientists planning on powering these future marvels? Well, researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois may have found the solution in a 3D-printed battery: it’s smaller than a grain of sand, yet has…
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via cinoh: J.G. Ballard pretty much nails social media, 1977 an essay in British Vogue, 1977
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mostlysignssomeportents: Super Macho Hispanic Health and Beauty
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In defense of the world governing body, they take seriously their mission to include the whole world in the game, and the world is still big enough to contain gaps in ability as wide as the one between Tahiti and Spain. If everybody gets to play, you’re going to get the occasional 10–0. Spain Tahiti,…
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Spain were the world champions and the greatest international team to play the game. Tahiti had one full-time professional player. Would Spain risk looking ungentlemanly—even ridiculous—if they set about Tahiti with all the strength at their disposal? The question suggests an unfamiliarity with the peculiar ethics of football. The Spanish internationals mostly play for the…
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reclaimingthelatinatag: A few variations of the Panamanian traditional dress Pollera. In Panama and Colombia, handmade polleras are worn during festivals or celebrations. Currently it is the National Costume of Panama. They are mainly made of cotton and wool, and you will usually see colorful flowers as designs on the pollera. Although they do have a dominant white color.…
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f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Thousands of LED Lights Create a Tunnel of Hopes As part of Vivid Sydney 2013, Designworks worked with The Benevolent’s website Society to create an amazing interactive light installation that consists of thousands of tiny LED lights. Called Hundreds and Thousands, it’s a walk-through tunnel where the lights are controlled individually, responding to on-the-ground…
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school for poetic computation is an artist run school launching this fall in New York. A small group of students and faculty will work closely to explore the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory — focusing especially on artistic intervention. It’s a 10 week program, a hybrid of residency and research group, that will…
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The terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is looking for instructors to provide “intellectual stimulation” to its prisoners by teaching seminars on anything from pastels to Photoshop,… “Due to cultural and religious considerations, seminars shall be given by a male instructor,” the Work Statement reads. Gitmo looking for instructors on pastels, Photoshop – Washington Times…