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5 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.
emergentdigitalpractices: howtodropoutofschool: 1. Open Culture: Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed. 2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on…
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emergentfutures: “Academic culture is a huge and diverse ecosystem. People who come along with grand plans about how everything is going to be transformed so often don’t have even a very shallow understanding of how that ecosystem works: You have all these Silicon Valley venture capitalists who are going to blow everything up and transform…
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First They Came For The Libraries
technoccult: Klint Finley Damien Williams on library closures: People who know about but don’t fully understand history may ask, “Why do conquerors and fanatics always go for the Libraries?” Our most famous example has always been the Library of Alexandria, but it is by no means the sole instance. And if you take a look…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: An untitled 1949 painting by Mark Rothko, from the National Gallery’s collection and until recently on view in a show at the Columbia Museum of Art. I’ve written a few times about the effect of black-and-white photoreproduction on Matisse and Picasso. Recently, I’ve begun to wonder if the rise of color plates…
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emergentdigitalpractices: emergentfutures: ““If you view the mass adoption of 3D printing as an inevitability – whether it be through people all owning their own 3D printers or, more likely, paying by usage at a local 3D-printing store – then it follows that many more people will start ripping out and replacing static components of various…
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Interview Magazine FEBRUARY 2013 | Brian Eno by Laurie Anderson “I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.”
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Even without further context, we’d find Frances Henshaw’s 1823 “Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy” imaginatively and artistically remarkable. But this 14-year-old girl’s textually-derived maps and cartographically-arranged texts also provide some of our best direct evidence for the teaching practices of famed women’s educational reformer Emma Willard. Willard founded Frances Henshaw’s school…
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brianlucid: Excerpts from Swiss artist and designer Karl Gerstner’s Kompendium für Alphabeten (Compendium for Literates) published in 1972 by Verlag Niggli AG. via Oliver Tomas amazing little book that essays to understand the expressive range of printed typography
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Benjamin took great pix of #GGJ_DU #ggj13 @EDP_DU @UofDenver (via Photos – Colorado independent Game Developers Association (CiGDA) (Denver, CO) – Meetup)
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About: The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts. The development is being funded by Canonical on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag. Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used…