Month: September 2014

  • Open letter to the gaming community — Medium

    Open letter to the gaming community — Medium

  • Rotating Eye Sketch

    Rotating Eye Sketch johnny-sss: I wrote a sketch in python mode of Processing. About Processing Python mode They implemented python mode recently, which enables us writing processing code in python syntax and liberate from semicolons and curly brackets. I prefer python mode to Nodebox, which is also a graphic…

  • whitneymuseum: Jeff Koons’s Play-Doh is made up of twenty-seven individual interlocking pieces of painted aluminum and took two decades to fabricate. Definitely not child’s play! 

  • Podcast: Petard from Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows

    mostlysignssomeportents: Here’s a reading (MP3) of the first part of my story “Petard: A Tale of Just Desserts” from the new MIT Tech Review anthology Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling. The anthology also features fiction by William Gibson, Lauren Beukes, Chris Brown, Pat Cadigan, Warren Ellis, Joel Garreau, and Paul Graham Raven. The 2013…

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  • How to move Tumblr to another blogging platform?

    ninamonz: Now that Yahoo has bought Tumblr and despite the promises, Tumblr will eventually become as bad as Yahoo is (many of you might have already noticed that before Tumblr got sold, the company already decided to deindex your mature audience targeted blog from Google.  For those of us who have loved Tumblr forever, it…

  • Martin Luther King reminds us of the danger of settling for cheap peace. King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” can be interpreted as a theological manifesto attacking calls for cheap peace. In this letter, King responds to his critics, who called his leadership against segregation laws in Birmingham “unwise and untimely.” His critics denounced his…

  • There are some things that if learned change a person forever. You cannot know of the slaughter running along the border and remain the same person. Ricky Pittman at The Bard of the South. Murder City by Charles Bowden: A Short Review Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields (Barnes & Noble)

  • Marketing is the sanctification of commerce, through translation into a values discourse. Venkatesh Rao at Ribbon Farm. The Economics of Pricelessness (via protoslacker)

  • brucesterling: *Half of the USA population lives in those blue patches. *If California runs out of water during the ongoing mega-drought, it’s gonna get tough. *Also, as the seas rise, Florida will be missed.