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There’s nothing like a dashboard full of data and graphs and trend lines to make us feel like grown ups. […] You’re supposed to put these dashboards up on a wall, on a huge plasma screen. Because of course numbers are twice as persuasive if you make them twice as big. Stijn DeBrouwere, Cargo cult analytics…
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betaknowledge: Dec 13, 2013
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What we are facing over a decade is a decade of emergency rescue, of resiliency, of attempts at sustainability, rather than some kind of clear march toward advanced heights of civilization. We are into an era of decay and repurposing of broken structures, of new social inventions within networks, a world of ‘Gothic High-Tech’ and…
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killscreen: There’s an outside impression (which is shared by some from within) that the art world is a weird, stuffy and self-serious place; it can seem as foreboding to newcomers as Call of Duty multiplayer is to people who don’t play videogames. But videogames, particularly those you can play alone in the comfort of your…
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killscreen: There’s an outside impression (which is shared by some from within) that the art world is a weird, stuffy and self-serious place; it can seem as foreboding to newcomers as Call of Duty multiplayer is to people who don’t play videogames. But videogames, particularly those you can play alone in the comfort of your…
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kottke.org: Loving pencils
kottke.org: Loving pencils jkottke: Three years ago, I came across a post on the Sharpie blog — I don’t know how or why I was following Sharpie’s blog, but such were the mysteries of our universe in those long-ago days — announcing a new kind of pencil: a mechanical pencil with liquid graphite ink, with…
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Starbucks added it will partner with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by giving the Colombian Coffee Grower Federation and suppliers and exporters throughout Colombia $3 million over the next three years “to provide technical and agronomy support to Colombian farmers.” (via Starbucks to open first Colombia store, will sell Colombian coffee –…
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code drawing 2013 08 28
code drawing 2013-08-28, various states. two, three, and four sprite variants, with collisions with each other, and with the edges of the frame.
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Technoccult: Contemplative Computing: Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future
Technoccult: Contemplative Computing: Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future technoccult: Klint Finley Photo by Beth Kanter I wrote about Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s new book The Distraction Addiction for TechCrunch: “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body,” William S. Burroughs once said in a…
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theatlantic: The Condensed Classroom This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as “flipping the classroom.” It’s been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), that edu-tech vogue committed to delivering classes to large numbers of students all at once via video lectures and automated…