Month: March 2015

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  • kateordie: thechanelmuse: Thirteen-year old baseball phenom Mo’ne Davis has launched a sneaker line to help impoverished girls “I never thought at the age of 13 I’d be a role model, but having young girls look up to me is pretty cool,” Mo’Ne said in a news release. “If I can inspire them to reach their…

  • Peck has developers in Silicon Valley camped out at Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores, incorporating customer and salesperson feedback into code in real time. “I think that kind of rapid prototyping—typical in a lot of other industries, not so typical in ours—will be critical for figuring out this collision of physical and digital,”…

  • blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: Carlos Garaicoa is showing this and other computer-woven rugs in the “New Territories” show of Latin American creativity at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. All of these “floor tapestries” are faithful, almost trompe-l’oeil renderings of pieces of pavement in Havana, the artist’s home town. (The shadows are…

  • How might this situation be remedied? The depth of the problem, of the blindness of our ethos, may be seen in the fact that Governor Scott seems unaware that the actual economy of Florida has much less to do with STEM disciplines than it does with what I call the H’MMM disciplines. Florida’s economy has…

  • thingsmagazine: Early methods used by cocaine mules, from James Mollison’s found photo project, The Memory of Pablo Escobar (via things)

  • mostlysignssomeportents: Douglas Adams lecture Her’s an 80-minute Douglas Adams lecture entitled “Parrots, the universe and everything from the University of California in 2001. Read the rest… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • likeapairofbottlerockets: The Sleater-Kinney Guide to Living Well and Rocking Forever Amy Klein examines the lasting legacy of Sleater-Kinney with respect to managing creative balance, knowing when to quit, and learning to be yourself at all costs. This is so great. When Corin gets on TV or on the cover of some magazine or something like…

  • airgordon: I was not a very good intern, namely because I was focused at all the tasks I enjoyed—fact-checking, research, reporting, writing—and basically worthless at the tasks I decided were beneath me. I would actually invent reasons to get out of having to do menial tasks, which is obviously a great attitude for a 22-year…

  • I would add glassbottommeg & @kinojabber & @criticalplay & @gamegrrrl &…. themarysue: inappropriatelyadorable: Women in video games! I had tried to finish this for International Women’s Day, but here it is now. 😀 And before I get comments about “why didn’t you include so-and-so,” “what about so-and-so?” etc., there are a ton of awesome ladies…