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itscolossal: New Laser Engraved Rolling Pins by Valek Imprint Elaborate Designs on Baked Goods
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Can a videogame help convince someone to become an Uber driver? The company seems to think so, as it’s just released Uber Drive, a Google Maps-based game that puts you in the role of a driver — or “partner” as Uber likes to say. You’re tasked with picking up customers (Uber encourages you to focus…
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What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This
What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This
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A mysterious little book called Iterating Grace is floating around San Francisco right now. At least a dozen people have received the book in the mail—or in my case, by secret hand-delivery to my house. (Which is a little creepy.) Who wrote this amazing, mysterious book satirizing tech startup culture? | Fusion
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Affordances as a concept originally comes from cognitive psychology and James Gibson (2015 [1979]). He was primarily interested in investigating what stages people learn to use what he called “action possibilities” of their environment. In the late 1980s, however, Donald Norman (1988) brought the term into human-machine interaction and added a design twist on Gibson’s…
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Design Principles for Participatory Politics
Design Principles for Participatory Politics
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Small games can be vital tools to capture public attention, highlight issues in accessible ways, and even help motivate people to act. Real Baku 2015, by designer and academic Pippin Barr, is a new, timely and beautifully-simple addition to this can (via This game sheds light on human rights abuses in Azerbaijan – Boing Boing)
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Not only will Ford direct all of its money and influence to curbing financial, racial, gender, and other inequities, but it will give lots more money in a way grantees have been clamoring for: It hopes to double the total it gives in the form of unrestricted grants for operating support. The doubling of general…
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science
Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science Editor: Gina Schlesselman-Tarango Expected: April 2017 ISBN: 978-1-63400-022-2 Call for Proposals: From the materials libraries and archives collect to the spaces they design and inhabit, whiteness can be mapped and traced in library and information science (LIS). Exploring the diverse terrain of LIS, this edited…
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Whichever of the competing strategies for saving crop diversity is the right one – in seed banks or in the fields – the reality is that both approaches are starved of support. What has become clear to Haga is that the seed banks are in a terrible state. The material in storage is ageing dangerously…