Category: words

  • I don’t believe that making games, critiquing games or playing games should be a privilege reserved for people who can afford it. Maddy Myers, Paste Magazine (via discovergames)

  • So when the poor, who in theory can’t afford a net connection come to the Facebook Zero service confusingly called Internet.org, they’re made to believe they’re on the internet while in reality they’re only on Facebook and a few hand-picked sites. And the sites too are picked in secret under some unknown process. For instance,…

  • Nike’s ‘uncomfort zone’ Tumblr campaign backfires immediately.

    Nike’s ‘uncomfort zone’ Tumblr campaign backfires immediately. generalbriefing: hellotailor: Advertising to Tumblr users can be an uphill battle, requiring at least a basic understanding of how Tumblr culture works. Denny’s managed it by being weird and funny. Taylor Swift does it by acting like a normal 20-something cat blogger. Media outlets like MTV and Disney are…

  • Random Start Monopoly

    kierongillen: carriagelamp: dearnonacepeople: So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”?  You know what, I’m going to tell you guys a story. In my Sociology class a few semesters ago, our prof had…

  • digithoughts: The 3-D Printing Revolution | Harvard Business Review The Harvard Business Review on the use of 3-D printing and its implications on manufacturing industries. Industrial 3-D printing is at a tipping point, about to go mainstream in a big way. Most executives and many engineers don’t realize it, but this technology has moved well…

  • currentsnewmedia: Jenn Law is an artist, writer and researcher living in Toronto. She is a member of Loop Gallery and Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Centre, where she works in print media, cut paper and book work. Entitled “Re-inventing the Wheel”, this miniature 3D printing press is fully functional, designed from blueprints for a full-size intaglio…

  • hipinuff: Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions Kasimir Malevich (1915), Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm. The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. 

  • thirstybychoice: melanebony: White privilege is not having to worry about the ethnic diversity in a college that you truly want to attend and being scared of facing marginalization and discrimination whilst being there This is huge