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Utopian reveries spill forth almost daily from the oracles of progress, forecasting a transformation of Information Age labor into irrepressible acts of impassioned fun. But we know all too well the painful truth about today’s ordinary work routines: they have become more, not less, routinized, soul-killing, and laden with drudgery. The contrast between the glum…
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ilovecharts: Credibility has a invert relation with ties… More ties in a room means less credibility for the meeting… take that, the man!
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nevver: The Necktie
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engineeringhistory: Olive Dennis, prominent railway engineer who was the first female member of the American Railway Engineering Association, and in 1920 was the second woman to receive a civil engineering degree from Cornell.
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Forget the Shortest Route Across a City; New Algorithm Finds the Most Beautiful
Forget the Shortest Route Across a City; New Algorithm Finds the Most Beautiful smartercities: technologyreview.com If you prefer beautiful routes over short ones, GPS mapping algorithms are of little use. But Yahoo researchers have come up with an approach that could change that.
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engineeringhistory: Charging an electric car in Detroit, 1919.
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notational: American poet and founder of UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith, about ‘conceptual writing’ and poetry in the digital age. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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nevver: Happy Batman Day
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cinoh: carpentrix: We misbehaved in the usual ways in the summers when we were younger. From middle school through high school, my friend Lindsay every summer came and spent time with me at my grandmother’s house during our annual stint there. We snuck out at night and got unsafe rides with boys we didn’t know,…
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(via I died on my Mountain – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.)