Month: February 2014

  • karaj: technology is woman’s friend

    karaj: technology is woman’s friend lazz: undergrads’ responses to a prompt on the kinds of cultural anxieties re: machines/animals/technology we see reflected in S/F, based on gender: 1. male 2. female 3. female “i can be reasonably sure that I am not a machine or a cyborg, as there is substantial evidence to…

  • The only thing that is lacking from this almost free solution is what the higher education system has a monopoly on. A credential. An unbundled educational credential that people could use to get a better job would turn low or no cost higher ed into a reality nearly overnight and save us trillions in economic…

  • mpdrolet: Ecuador Ian Allen

  • The Day The Laughter Stopped

    masterworksinteractive: busylittleb: A game developed for Ludum Dare #28 that holds a pretty heavy and powerful message.  Simple design and mechanics speak volumes in this Indie game. **TRIGGER WARNING** Without giving away what happens, I will say that it is based on a very heavy subject material.  There is a trigger warning on the game…

  • theatlantic: How Color Shapes Our Lives The social, historical, and evolutionary signals of colors. Plus, a video that shows how Newton arbitrarily named the colors of the rainbow. Read more. [Image: I_believe_/flickr]

  • kochalka: You should download HELLO WORLD For iOS. It’s a wonderful and strange first-person-adventure, about an alternate universe named Fred. (I originally downloaded it because it looked like it might be “so bad it’s good”… But it’s actually great and I totally fell in love with it.) The great thing about gaming on you phone…

  • personalfactory: ~ fabbaloo.com

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  • laughingsquid: Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Prepare for Super Bowl XLVIII sports ball ftw!

  • prostheticknowledge: The TekkenPiano Arduino project turns a piano into a gaming controller for fighting game Tekken, put together by Vimeo user Mc Cool – video embedded below: Heyho, This is the final product of my project for interaction design. Took the whole semester, to get this to work but it was worth it. How it…