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localflux: BIG BROTHER STARTUP An eight-person startup called Placemeter is working to cobble together video feeds from different sources and cover all or most of New York City’s sidewalks and public spaces within the next year or so. Founder Alexandre Winter estimates Placemeter needs about 2,000 to 3,000 well-placed cameras to cover 90% of the…
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engineeringhistory: The ENIAC, the first functional electronic digital computer, designed to calculate ballistics tables by solving differential equations. The computer was announced on February 14th, 1946 and shut down on October 2, 1955.
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explore-blog: Firefighter-turned-writer Caroline Paul and illustrator extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton, the duo behind the magnificent and heartening Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, settle the indoor vs. outdoor cat debate once and for all. Meanwhile, Margaret Atwood has a set of concerns on the subject. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift
Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift teachingliteracy: This new invention from the MIT Media Lab will no doubt be controversial. Readers strap themselves into a robotic suit equipped with sensors that literally make the reader feel the emotions conveyed in the text as the reader flips pages. The video…
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shrinkrants: By John Naughton, The ObserverSunday, August 19, 2012 Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’. Fifty years ago this month,…
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prostheticknowledge: Nothing To Hide Online game of anti-stealth and self-surveillance, where being seen is crucial to your survival: A Story of Insecurity In Security In this anti-stealth game, you’re forced to help with your own surveillance. Act like you’re always on stage. A fake smile for the camera. If you can’t hide who you are……
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ibmconsulting: I.B.M. Uses Gamification to Encourage Offline and Online Connections Mitra Sorrells, bizbash.com Find out how the tech giant used a game to drive engagement at its conference.Social sharing has become the norm at meetings and conferences, encouraged by organizers looking to extend the re … gamefulness?
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver (via miggylol)
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<blockquote class=“twitter-tweet”><p><a href=“https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood”>@MargaretAtwood</a> talks about Oryx and Crake. Stoked on this, as I am about to finish this book. <a href=“http://t.co/GqWqXaHkeI”>http://t.co/GqWqXaHkeI</a></p>— Frith knows (@WiteRa33it) <a href=“https://twitter.com/WiteRa33it/statuses/398566617862643712”>November 7, 2013</a></blockquote>http://â//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsâ
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
Grob’s Attack Few were hacking for the pure lulz of it any more, or even to register protests, as they had in the golden years of legend that middle-aged guys wearing retro Anonymous masks got all nostalgic about in the dim, cobwebby, irrelevant corners of the web. What good would registering a protest do you…