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anticipatedstranger: J.L.M. Lauweriks. Alphabet
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reuben-thomas:
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so I go to Carnegie Mellon University, where the Drift was invented by Caitlin Lightcap.today I was looking a bulletin board, looking for paid studies, when I saw this: See the whole story at 2500 tons of awesome (via flavorcountry [sic])
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prostheticknowledge: Prototypo.io In-development online app for designing, generating and exporting your own customized fonts: Type design is a discipline of hard work that requires a lot of time and knowledge. Say hello to prototypo! Start a font by tweaking all glyphs at once. With more than twenty parameters, design custom classical or experimental shapes. Once…
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notational: darksilenceinsuburbia: Vera Molnar. Hommage à Dürer – 400 aiguilles, traversées par un fil. Acrylic on untreated cotton cloth (plywood), cut needles, approx. 40 m thread (knotted once) . diptych, ½, 1989/2004, 84 x 84 cm. Heroine of algorithm.
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Word For/Word: #22, Summer 2013
Word For/Word: #22, Summer 2013 My friend, Scott Howard, had two poems published.
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the new app Spreadsheets heats things up by giving users a tool to apply Quantified Self principles between the sheets. Created by Danny Wax and Tyler Elick, the co-founders of Ardenturous Labs, Spreadsheets uses an accelerometer and analysis of coital sounds to track the data of your sex life. Having first set its calibrations based…
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Our data about MOOCs says that they’re not working. So, belief in MOOCs is “ineffable.” It’s about having warm feelings for technology and the hopes for its role in education. Mark Guzdial commenting on an article from the New York Times. The Two Cultures of Educational Reform – NYTimes.com | Computing Education Blog
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humanegames: I spent a significant portion of this past week performing the identity of an expatriate Colombian citizen. In an effort to reclaim talent drained away by the War On Drugs and by the fifty-year-long internal conflict with the FARC, Colombia established a “born Colombian always Colombian” policy. I have dual citizenship. My documents, my…
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The hacker ethic is not an orthodoxy but a heterogeneous set of approaches that strives to continuously and creatively disrupt totalising narratives, whether they are expressed as politics or protocols. In turn, the critical hacktivist is truly critical in Foucault’s sense of an anti-foundationalist critique. Foucault said that any discourse of Truth has a normalising…