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Finding What’s Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
Finding What’s Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
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nobrocomputing: Women weaving software core memory by hand for the Apollo mission. I’m teaching my Social Life of Innovation seminar this quarter (which is sort of like live action nobrocomputing). So more action here will follow, I hope. (Source: http://nobrocomputing.tumblr.com/)
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself “It might surprise today’s software makers that one of the founding fathers of their boys’ club was, in fact, a mother—and that should give them pause as they consider why the gender inequality of the Mad Men era persists”
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Putting your kettle on the Internet of Things makes your wifi passwords an open secret
mostlysignssomeportents: The $150 Smarter Ikettle lets you start your water boiling from anywhere in the world over the Internet – and it also contains long-term serious security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to extract your wifi passwords from it. To connect to the Internet, the Ikettle needs to know your wifi password, which it stores in…
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I am clear about all of that … and yet I don’t care. I do not care if free college won’t solve inequality. As an isolated policy, I know that it won’t. I don’t care that it will likely only benefit the high achievers among the statistically unprivileged—those with above-average test scores, know-how, or financial…
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I don’t like anything about computers. Young people today on their flat screens, it’s all virtual; nothing is real. All our projects involve real things — real wind, real sun, real wet, real danger, real drama. And this is very invigorating for me. Christo (via magnificentruin)
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IoOOOT
IoOOOT IoOOOT the Internet of Object Oriented Ontology Things this is my fumbling misinterpretation of, mashup of, two ideas past their peak on the hype curve, trending toward the well of despair, it – the mashup – is a response to (@bruces) Bruce Sterling’s request for help in conceiving what has come to be known…
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Bruce Sterling’s design future manifesto: viva spime! #10yrsago
mostlysignssomeportents: Bruce Sterling has written a fantastic nonfiction book about the future of industrial design and society, and it’s the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read all year. Sterling is a brilliant science fiction writer. Virtuoso novels likeDistraction have earned him an indelible place in the field. But as good as his novels are, I like…
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Four principal wizards inhabited my childhood. These were, in order of discovery, TH White’s Merlin, JRR Tolkien’s Gandalf, Susan Cooper’s Merriman Lyon and Ursula K Le Guin’s Ged, more commonly known as Sparrowhawk, true names being a serious business in Earthsea. Other magicians and witches also lived on my boyhood bookshelf, but even at 10…
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RafaelFajardo / code drawings
RafaelFajardo / code drawings I’m building a comprehensive catalog of my code drawings at my website. come over for a visit.