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I’m late to the party. Holy Fire: art of the digital age. 2008. Catalog of essays named after a novel by Bruce Sterling. In the novel the drive to create art is referred to, poetically, as “the holy fire”. The catalog is now added to my to-read list.
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kchayka: “While we wring our hands about institutions, learning outside of school is exploding: DIY.org, iPad apps, Khan. Families will curate great online experiences for their kids and this curation will be considered “good parenting.” Families will learn a lot about what their children can and can’t do and sometimes they’ll know more than the…
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In response to the idea of encoding memory as binary digits on clay tablets
An encoding system will be most useful and decodable if it is designed for the medium on which it is encoded and when that medium is designed to work efficiently with a specific decoding device. A medium has longevity if the conditions under which it is stored are unlikely to degrade the medium. How long…
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foolsgoldfish: color ascii generator in progress
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‘Invisible Design’ Is A Cognitive Trap
stoweboyd: Timo Arnall debunks the current infatuation with the #NoUI concept, suggesting that it demeans the user and oversimplifies the difficulties involved for design to make complex things seem simple. His argument is directed both at the metaphor of an invisible UI, but also the value of what it rejects. Timo Arnall, No to NoUI 1.…
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karaj: reblog.
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Is This Common Sense? Not at first.
shortdivision: Going into the freelance market unprepared is like washing up on a desert island and scrambling to find out what is edible. Freelancers end up dealing with all kinds of private clients. It is exciting, and great relationships can and hopefully will be formed. It’s also a situation filled with potential booby traps, most…
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my brother the scientist is conducting a study of Type 2 Diabetes among the Latino population in the US, which disproportionately suffers from bone fractures, even in the absence of osteoporosis. His work was featured on Univision 41 KWEX (uploaded by RJFLab) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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uispeccoll: Oh no! This medieval book is naked! Check out more views in the Iowa Digital Library of the inside of a medieval book binding. The Preservation Department in the U.Iowa library has an extensive bookbinding model collection from papyrus codices to Kindles. Highlights are online. Do you have a favorite book you’d like to have bound this…
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brucesterling: Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab: From a Wired interview: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/ Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this: 1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure. 2. You pull instead of…