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  • technoccult: Photo: cogdogblog Suburban Decay One could argue that the resurgence of our cities does not necessarily portend the fall of the suburbs. But while many cities have been benefiting from an influx of wealth, the suburbs have been suffering a rise in poverty. From 2000 to 2010, the number of poor in the suburbs…

  • Trying to feed live weather data into game, Tommy Hoffman for SWEAT

  • Calibrating game space for a play test

  • Neo Calvinist critique of Calvinism

  • How can something be random on purpose? Well, Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, stores its goods in a chaotic disorder. But only at first glance, because there’s order behind the apparent disarray. It’s called chaotic storage. […] Intuitively, most people would store similar goods together, virtually sorting them according to predefined characteristics. This would…

  • cvilbrandt: rinatan: Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Sailor Moon’s influence on kids, primarily little girls, and how it reminded us all that no matter what anyone says, we can still be just as strong as anyone else. We can fight for justice using glitter, ribbons, and the power of friendship, we can wear…

  • eb-n-flow: dynamicafrica: Martha Chumo, a 19-year-old self-taught programmer, was supposed to be in New York right now, honing her coding skills and mastering cutting-edge technologies in the company of fellow software enthusiasts. Instead, she’s thousands of miles away, in her hometown of Nairobi, Kenya. A few months ago, Chumo was accepted into the summer intake…

  • I entered this scene through rejection and honesty Nerds weren’t mean, they were weird and that worked for me After 10 years of teasing when social skills failed me Dungeons & Dragons cured all that ailed me We read books, we played games, we made art, we watched Lost We said things like “D20”, “shipping”…

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