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thisistheverge: Shapeshifters: phones of the future could morph on demand Scientists in Europe have developed prototype devices that could drastically change the way we interact with our smartphones and tablets. The six working prototypes, known as “Morphees,” are thin, electronic displays capable of automatically changing shape to perform certain functions. Researchers say that if brought…
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SiSSYFiGHT 2000 returns
jkottke: If you’re of a certain internet age, from the time when idealistic nerds and not bizdev bros ruled the roost, you probably remember SiSSYFiGHT 2000. (If not, this Salon review of the game from 2000 may lift the fog.) The original creators of the game are bringing it back, open sourced, HTML5, and the…
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wearenapoleon: works by jimmie durham.
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done. Joseph…
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mrstsk: A Japanese friend visiting London for a workshop at the Royal College of Art reports to me that an exhibition opens today at the Design Museum entitled United Micro Kingdoms: A Design Fiction. Design theorists and educators Dunne and Raby have re-imagined England, dividing it into four zones or “super-shires” dominated by Digitarians, Bioliberals,…
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daveortega: Non-Entry for the MBTA “New Perspectives” Map Challenge I love the idea of re-designing Boston’s clunky quasi-decipherable Rapid Transit Map. When I heard that the T was putting together a contest to re-design the map I seized the opportunity. I spent the weekend tweaking Bezier curves and aligning dots (so many damn dots), using…
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humanegames: (via Hyper Current Living – today and tomorrow)
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Emergent Digital Practices: The Art of Walking: a Field Guide
Emergent Digital Practices: The Art of Walking: a Field Guide emergentdigitalpractices: The Art of Walking: a field guide is the first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, The Art of Walking provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject. The…
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This website will switch over to Scratch 2.0 on May 9! All your stuff will be available on the Scratch 2.0 site. And you can continue to use Scratch 1.4 to make and share projects. It will take a while to update everything to Scratch 2.0, so the website will be closed for 3 days,…
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nprfreshair: Tomorrow is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday. He might just be the coolest 80-year-old out there. For some Willie reading, last year Texas Monthly did an oral history of outlaw country — “That Seventies Show”: Up to that point, the cosmic cowboys had played to crowds that looked largely like they did. Willie brought a…