Year: 2015

  • Notes from “The Information” by James Gleick

    on contrast: March 11, 2015 Chapter 5. A Nervous System for the Earth …“For in the general we must note, That whatever is capable of a competent Difference, perceptible to any Sense, may be a sufficient Means whereby to express the Cogitations.” All Excerpts From Gleick, James. “The Information.” Pantheon, 2011-02-28T15:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may…

  • laughingsquid: Slow Crafter Hiné Mizushima Creates a Felt and Button Replica of the Newly Announced Apple Watch

  • femalepressure: Leah Kardos: composer, electronic, ambient, contemporary classical music, music technology lecturer, live coder http://www.leahkardos.com/bio_press/

  • thinkvr: Are You Ready for Data Science?Shelly Palmer, huffingtonpost.com Data science is all the rage. Almost every CMO I know wants a data scientist for their very own – they are the status symbol du jour for senior executives everywhere. But, building the right data science team for your organization is not as…

  • When everything works, the reader flashes green and emits a pleasing tone; if something goes wrong, it glows blue—never red. Red lights are forbidden at Disney, as they imply something bad happened. Nothing bad can happen at Disney World. Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband | WIRED (via iamdanw)

  • CARDIAC paper computer emulator

    mostlysignssomeportents: Mark sez, “The recent post of the CARDIAC Unboxing [ed: the CARDIAC being a cardboard teaching computer that Bell Labs released in the late 60s] made me poke my father, who has written a CARDIAC emulator that actually looks like the real CARDIAC, to put together a webpage with the source of it. Both…

  • an old friend lost his mother this weekend we lost a beloved colleague to cancer this morning an earthquake shook Colombia today thankfully my parents are okay I am sad and fortunate needed some pretty pictures from my drafts

  • bookpatrol: A Reading Room for One For the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale artist Marta Wengorovius teamed with architect Francisco Aires Mateus to produce this little slice of paradise; a reading cabin for one.      The simple wood structure is fit for one person, holds one bookshelf and has a raised seating area and that’s it. It is light by a…

  • cinoh: Petar Dolic