Category: words

  • vectorbelly: Twitter: The Comic is a collection of comics based on the greatest tweets of our generation. The source material is used verbatim, typos and all. Despite the seemingly random nature of the tweets, the comic has reoccurring characters and story arcs that aren’t fully understood unless experienced through a single reading. With explicit permission…

  • shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON Mickey Nardo (1boringoldman) quotes a recent Scientific American article: For most of the DSM‘s history, investigators have not had a detailed understanding of what causes mental illness. That excuse is no longer valid. Neuroscientists now understand some of the ways that brain circuits for memory, emotion and attention malfunction in various mental disorders… Then he goes…

  • politics of language: nitanahkohe: i really really strongly despise academics who perceive…

    politics of language: nitanahkohe: i really really strongly despise academics who perceive… nitanahkohe: i really really strongly despise academics who perceive themselves as leftists, activists, etc who refuse or are otherwise incapable of making their dialogue and interventions accessible like if you can’t give a definition of what you mean by the term ideology without…

  • carlagannis: “Remixing the Book & Its Others” panel with Paolo Cirio, Ilya Szilak, Justin Petropoulos & Carla Gannis moderated by Mark Amerika today at 4pm… if you’re in Boulder at the And Now Festival. http://andnow2013.sched.org/ &NOW Schedule andnow2013.sched.org just north of me

  • typeee: Messed with some codes i found online.

  • Chance favors the connected mind. Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From (via stoweboyd)

  • nevver: Bukowski’s Air and light and time and space illustrated, Zen Pencils

  • How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science From 7% to 42%

    How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science From 7% to 42% A Carnegie Mellon study on gender and computer science led to changes in the department that increased the gender ratio of women in CS from 7% to 42%.

  • brianlucid: An iPad app for learning and practicing calligraphy (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • brianlucid: OpenType.js is a javascript parser for TrueType and OpenType fonts.