RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • heading out to see the LEGO movie with my younger son 🙂

  • blech: A Google Books ngram result for “Lego bricks” and “LEGOs”. The Lego Group themselves use the former; the latter is, as far as I know, exclusively known in the US: @54_52_4f_4c_4c The correct one “I have a box full of LEGO bricks” … “LEGO”, because it’s our brand name, shouldn’t be pluralized. 🙂 —…

  • Evidence and Meaning

    protoslacker: When I was just ten my first nephew was born. I think that had a lot to do with my interest in child development. For a few years when I was still a boy I had lots of time with babies and toddlers. I don’t have children of my own, and in many ways haven’t…

  • explore-blog: Firefighter-turned-writer Caroline Paul and illustrator extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton, the duo behind the magnificent and heartening Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, settle the indoor vs. outdoor cat debate once and for all. Meanwhile, Margaret Atwood has a set of concerns on the subject.  (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift

    Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift teachingliteracy: This new invention from the MIT Media Lab will no doubt be controversial. Readers strap themselves into a robotic suit equipped with sensors that literally make the reader feel the emotions conveyed in the text as the reader flips pages. The video…

  • shrinkrants: By John Naughton, The ObserverSunday, August 19, 2012 Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’. Fifty years ago this month,…

  • prostheticknowledge: Nothing To Hide Online game of anti-stealth and self-surveillance, where being seen is crucial to your survival: A Story of Insecurity In Security In this anti-stealth game, you’re forced to help with your own surveillance. Act like you’re always on stage. A fake smile for the camera. If you can’t hide who you are……

  • ibmconsulting: I.B.M. Uses Gamification to Encourage Offline and Online Connections Mitra Sorrells, bizbash.com Find out how the tech giant used a game to drive engage­ment at its conference.Social shar­ing has become the norm at meet­ings and con­fer­ences, encour­aged by orga­niz­ers look­ing to extend the re … gamefulness?

  • Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver (via miggylol)

  • <blockquote class=“twitter-tweet”><p><a href=“https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood”>@MargaretAtwood</a> talks about Oryx and Crake. Stoked on this, as I am about to finish this book. <a href=“http://t.co/GqWqXaHkeI”>http://t.co/GqWqXaHkeI</a></p>&mdash; Frith knows (@WiteRa33it) <a href=“https://twitter.com/WiteRa33it/statuses/398566617862643712”>November 7, 2013</a></blockquote>http://“//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”