Month: December 2014

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    best of tumblr generator My BEST posts of 2013 11 notes Video Bill Buxton delivering 45 of the most important minutes on design thinking and practice I’ve experienced in recent memory. This is 15 notes Video Sketch-a-Move (by Superflux) as seen in Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences. 24 notes null The Five Laws of the Curation…

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    best of tumblr generator My BEST posts of 2014 5 notes The school system we have is too constrained by its roots in the Industrial Revolution, he argued. Machines were less capable than they are 3 notes 3 notes 19 notes Perhaps it was once the case that, during the four years of college, you…

  • hyperallergic: Last week during Art Basel Miami Beach 2014, collector Gary Nader unveiled the design for his new Latin American Art Museum (LAAM), ArchDaily reported. When the 90,000-square-foot space opens in Miami in 2016, it will finally give the “capital of Latin America” an exhibition hall worthy of its nickname. READ MORE

  • nevver: John Osborne

  • Crowdfunding a USB-stick-sized, GNU/Linux-ready computer

    mostlysignssomeportents: A reader writes, “The USB Armory is full-blown computer (800MHz ARM® processor, 512MB RAM) in a tiny form factor (65mm x 19mm x 6mm USB stick) designed from the ground up with information security applications in mind.” “Not only does the USB Armory have native support for many Linux distributions, it also has a…

  • Crowdfunding a USB-stick-sized, GNU/Linux-ready computer

    mostlysignssomeportents: A reader writes, “The USB Armory is full-blown computer (800MHz ARM® processor, 512MB RAM) in a tiny form factor (65mm x 19mm x 6mm USB stick) designed from the ground up with information security applications in mind.” “Not only does the USB Armory have native support for many Linux distributions, it also has a…

  • In the epigraph to Drown, Junot Diaz uses a quote from a Cuban poet, Gustavo Pérez Firmat—“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you.” This is the dilemma of the immigrant writer. If I’d lived in Haiti my whole life, I’d be writing these things…

  • We don’t read Michel Foucault asking if he is authentically French. Western writers are granted rhetorical agency, analysis, and theory—the ability to tell truths that are not contained in their bodies. Smith, A. (2014) ‘Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity’, in Simpson, A. and Smith, A. (eds) Theorizing…

  • cinoh: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” Kurt Vonnegut.

  • Then suddenly, there are these other games where you’re just telling your own story. You ask a kid what they’re doing when they play Minecraft and they can’t even tell you – they’re doing dozens of things no one has told them to. They’re just playing. As a veteran gamer, you almost feel guilty doing…