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dobooks: Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader Jan Middendorp Shaping Text takes a practical and broad approach to typography. It is aimed at design students and graphic designers, and also at those who are concerned with content: writers, editors, and publishers. Showing a wide range of examples from first-rate designers across the world, the…
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prostheticknowledge: A Computer Learning How To Snowboard Animated data visualisation by Andreas Koller showing the process of a computer exploring and understanding athletic movements, simply and beautifully presented in interactive WebGL – video example embedded below: This screencast shows the process with random values for velocity, take off strength, and X, Y, Z rotations. After…
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womeninspace: Jackie Parker was Flight controller at NASA at 18. She didn’t stay there, she went on the become the first woman to attend the US Air force Test Pilot School as a pilot. As a matter of fact, she had learned to fly, before she could drive. She resigned the air force in 1996…
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Seeing Like a State (public library) by James C. Scott (1998) The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (public library) by David Lewis-Williams (2002) Crowds and Power (public library) by Elias Canetti (1962) The Wheels of Commerce (public library) by Fernand Braudel (1982) Keeping Together in Time (public library) by William…
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This tension between intellectual work and economic survival is thoroughly mundane and generally taken for granted by those who negotiate it every day; but to look at the history of the past thirty years or so is to be struck by the degree to which the social, cultural, and political trajectory of American life is…
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prostheticknowledge: ARDUBOY Circuit board business card is a minimalist credit-card-like handheld console which includes Tetris. Videos embedded below: A revolution in minimalist circuit board art design. Barebones Arduino OLED ScreenPiezo SpeakerCapacitive Input Buttons9+ Hours Playtime1.6 millimeters total thickness You can find out more about the project here
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vellum: Indiecade East 2014: “Let’s Make a Video Game!” – Auriea Harvey (keynote) (by IndieCade) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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nevver: We Know What You Did Last Summer
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nevver: Dublin vs New York