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motherboardtv: To Move Drugs, Traffickers Are Hacking Shipping Containers The scheme sounds like a work of near science fiction. But police in the Netherlands and Belgium insist its true, and say they have the evidence to prove it: two tons of cocaine and heroin, a machine gun, a suitcase stuffed with $1.7 million, and hard drive…
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denverstreetart: Would be great to see more new builds incorporate murals like this. | #denverstreetart http://ift.tt/1gD2lMe
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neil-gaiman: My speech on reading, libraries, and obligations… Giving it sort of slowly because I had a panic attack just before I got up to speak and was convinced that it made no sense and I couldn’t read it. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The world doesn’t have to be like this. Things can be different. I was in China in 2007, at the first party-approved science fiction and fantasy convention in Chinese history. And at one point I took a top official aside and asked him Why? SF had been disapproved of for a long time. What had…
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out. William S. Burroughs (via stoweboyd) // So true and one of my favorites. The others are: William Gibson: “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” Gaston Berger: ”The purpose of looking at the future is to disturb the present.” (via futurescope)
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I’ll get to work on the typography right away… border-studies: Still would like to see a better graphic-designed iteration of this (shudder to think this is Bruce’s “pretty version”), but a very useful chart nonetheless. brucesterling: *A prettier version of an earlier sketch of mine. Maybe I should do T-shirts. Hey, Warren Ellis does T-shirts.…
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playfulsystems: anticonventional objects3 (by brucesflickr)
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silvermender: thinkmexican: Paloma Noyola: The Face of Mexico’s Unleashed Potential When a report emerged in September 2012 that a girl from one of Matamoros’ poorest neighborhoods had attained the highest math score in Mexico, some doubted its veracity. It must be fake, they said. But it wasn’t fake. Her name is Paloma Noyola, and what…
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Reasons to Blog your Research | Learning Technologies of Change
Reasons to Blog your Research | Learning Technologies of Change gfbertini: It helps you become more clear about your ideas. It gives you practice at presenting your ideas for a non-specialist audience. It increases your visibility within academia. It increases your visibility outside academia and makes it much easier for journalists, campaigners and practitioners to…
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*He’s the maestro of design diagrams. *I’m alarmed to realize that my adaptation of Hugh’s diagram, which I called “Anticonventional Products,” lacks any category for “unsuccessful products.” It’s strange to overlook the vast host of product failures. Oh well, back to the drawing board. http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/03/10_successful_product.png (via The Hugh Dubberly successful product | Beyond The Beyond…