Category: words

  • twenty years ago

    NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Wed, 21 Apr 93 03:55:49 -0500

  • Our first week in the wild

    gethopscotch: So, we launched Hopscotch last week, and it’s been quite a ride since.  It’s been downloaded more than 20,000 times, we cracked the Top 10 iPad Education apps, and were featured in New and Noteworthy on the App Store.  After the initial press we got all sorts of other great coverage on various ed tech…

  • BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin. (via BLOKK font gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum. The new and better wireframing font.)

  • Air_ray, modelled on the manta ray, is a remote-controlled hybrid construction consisting of a helium-filled ballonet and a beating wing drive. Its lightweight design enables it to “swim” in the sea of air using the lift from the helium in a similar way to the manta ray in water. Propulsion is achieved by a beating…

  • BOMB Magazine: Duane Michals by David Seidner

    BOMB Magazine: Duane Michals by David Seidner

  • Different Cultures, Different Selves

    shrinkrants: From The New York Times: (via 3quarksdaily) A group of students at Cornell, born in Asia but raised in the United States by immigrant parents, were instructed to keep a diary. They struggled to recall the events of their own daily lives when they were later quizzed about them, remembering fewer details about their experiences than…

  • bengriswold: Architecture from the Inside Out: From the Body, the Senses, the Site and the Community Karen A. Franck Introducing a basis for design that transcends fixed notions of style and emerging technologies, this book emphasizes feeling, moving and the experiential. Since the book’s initial publication in 2000, architects and writers have been drawn to…

  • cinoh: i found an interesting article when researching the edits done by joseph beuys on the term flux.  above: manifesto 1970, joseph beuys *original written 1963, george maciunas posted by gretchen booth.

  • shrinkrants: “SPEAK UP, EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS.” OPINION Whither Moral Courage? By SALMAN RUSHDIE Published: April 27, 2013 WE find it easier, in these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage — the courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures. A man in a cowboy hat vaults a fence to…

  • goreyhaim: Tramp The Dirt Down – Elvis Costello Tramp the bloody dirt down (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)