Category: words

  • @the_dylanjones wow. that kind of shows that even board games can be art! 😀 — Brandon Bey (@fidgetwidget) February 26, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

  • Colorado Approves In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants

    Colorado Approves In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants political-linguaphile: political-linguaphile: The Colorado House passed a bill on Friday allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition for state public colleges. For 10 years, the legislature has debated versions of the bill that lets students who graduate from Colorado high schools pay a lower tuition bill, regardless of their immigration…

  • Berners-Lee picked up to the baton. You don’t need to spend all your time in direct action, he said. You can make a big difference just devoting some of your time to justice, and some to persuasion. And then, like a good programmer, he came up with a bare-bones social action algorithm. “Spend 10 percent…

  • I Wrote This Thing About Seeing Tina Fey in Person at the Paley Center

    I Wrote This Thing About Seeing Tina Fey in Person at the Paley Center lazybookreviews: …which I’m pretty happy with? What I think is interesting about it, after the fact, is that it comes across as very fangirl-y, mostly because of the lengths I went to to be understanding of why she seemed so scary…

  • What exactly does ‘a Hispanic’ look like? Do I need to look like Juan Valdez and sell Folgers in a T.V. commercial, sift my fingers through Colombian coffee beans I picked myself, sitting on the back of my reliable mule, Conchita, next to a brokedown Chiva in an oversized sombrero, — for me to “look”…

  • – You know I can be in two places at the same time? – No… that’s imposible. – Do you want me to show you?.–   ( -_- )

  • enochliew: Garden Shed and Workshop by Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk The structure is a general storage space, space for garden tools, and a small workshop for household repair, constructed on a narrow site beside the main house.

  • jstephenlee: I just finished a program in Processing that creates these randomly generated nature-based patterns.

  • via vellum: “Responsive Typography” Tracks Your Location to Automatically Resize Text Web designer  Marko Dugonjić has created a website called “Responsive Typography” that alters the size of the text based on your distance from the screen. As a simple working prototype, Responsive Typography shows us some of the untapped potential of physical interactions with soft wear. Imagine moving away…

  • thegetty: A three-day Digital Art History Lab took place this week at the Getty, with a small group of scholars tackling major issues facing the intersection of art, the humanities, and technology—the future of publishing, the relevance gap, Eurocentricity, outmoded systems of professional advancement, and more. Captured on Storify: Day 1 and Day 2. Google+…