Category: words

  • Los medios latinos: Dónde casi el 50 por ciento de los latinos desaparecen – Latino News and Opinion

    Los medios latinos: Dónde casi el 50 por ciento de los latinos desaparecen – Latino News and Opinion “Los medios son para dominar suavemente … y para mostrar lo que la gente prefiere” —Giovanni Mosquera, afrocolombiano “La mentalidad de aquí es decir que la belleza es blanca” —Juan Acosta, antropólogo afrodominicano “¿Por qué es que los medios…

  • Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Q & A from Front-End Design Conference

    Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Q & A from Front-End Design Conference cameronmoll: Dan and Cherrie Denney, two of the nicest people I’ve ever met, run one of the nicest conferences in our industry. They recently sent me a lovely gift in the mail. Sean McCabe, known by many as Sean Wes, captured sketch…

  • fylatinamericanhistory: Jorge Luis Borges and JG Ballard in the 1970s.

  • Be(A)ware DU

    Be(A)ware DU I am proud of the students at the University of Denver (DU) who have created the tumblr in the link above to push back against intolerance and hatefulness. They are laying claim to our university as a space of inclusiveness. Go! On October 28th at the University of Denver, an extremely hurtful message…

  • Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations. Architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this,…

  • Surviving the post-employment economy

    Surviving the post-employment economy …this is not a crisis of individual choices. It is a systemic failure—within higher education and beyond. It is a crisis of managed expectations—expectations of what kind of job is “normal”, what kind of treatment is to be tolerated, and what level of sacrifice is reasonable. When survival is touted as…

  • Wild exploration is increasingly entering the lives of our institutions, whether schools or libraries,” Ito said, noting that, although schools do have a strong role to play in connected learning, “libraries are at the center between formal and informal learning….Libraries by mission are all about self-directed learning. Libraries Play A Central Role in Connected Learning…

  • emergentfutures: Mooc creators criticise courses’ lack of creativity Original vision lost in scramble for profit and repackaging of old ideas, say pair Full Story: THE

  • killscreen: The game uses player focus and brain activity to operate. As players focus, their spaceship speeds up to increase their score. Players can also direct their ship to collect Star Boxes for a boost and powerups, which are activated by blinking. Ryan Gerhardt of PSFX explains how Neuronauts operates via brain activity Relevant for…

  • 0x4e71: After having read the previously quoted No-one Ever Cried At A Website by Matt Pearson/@zenbullets, I bought his work in progress (second but first self published) book, in electronic form this time, Novelty Waves. Of course Rutterford did not set out to deceive anyone. He never claimed his piece was an algorithmic audio visualisation,…