Month: November 2014

  • I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Jorge Luis Borges (via wordsnquotes)

  • wolfliving: *This is so next-level. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • my colleague Tim Weaver is headed to Peru to speak about his art and biomedia. thebrainscoop: From In Search of Night Life – deep in the Peruvian forests, adventures in the dark.  You guys, I went to the jungle. 

  • cavetocanvas: Friendship – Agnes Martin, 1963 From MoMA’s website: A grid connotes regulation and regularity, and therefore the human hand: natural forms as uniform as these patterns of evenly spaced horizontal and vertical straight lines are seldom visible to the unaided eye. In Friendship and other works, however, Martin draws a grid that somehow both softens the…

  • In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. That object is then sandwiched between two other layers and sealed. The tiny diodes are about the size of a red blood cell, and randomly dispersed on the material. When current runs through…

  • In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. That object is then sandwiched between two other layers and sealed. The tiny diodes are about the size of a red blood cell, and randomly dispersed on the material. When current runs through…

  • What Consumers Want — and Don’t Want — From the Internet of Things (Infographic) Carly Okyle Entrepreneur Staff Editorial Assistant, entrepreneur.com Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren’t trying to connect…

  • dezeen: A waiting room inside a shipping container »

  • nprplays: From Weekend Edition Saturday: Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope “You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,” Kathleen de Vere says, “and then you do it again.” This rotten game was created in the mid-’90s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games.…

  • text-mode: A programming language that is based on Arabic instead of ASCII.  قلب is a programming language exploring the role of human culture in coding. Code is written entirely in Arabic, highlighting cultural biases of computer science and challenging the assumptions we make about programming. More at قلب – Ramsey Nasser and check the video.