Category: words

  • Micro — Independent Publishing Festival

    border-studies: Wish I could have been at this.. Looks great. zwei-zehn: Read More

  • The People’s Bailout

    howtosharpenpencils: This is a long post but it’s about something pretty interesting so I hope you’ll indulge … Like many folks, Occupy Wall Street has been some doing good work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helping people on the ground. Now OWS is launching the ROLLING JUBILEE, a program that has been in development…

  • ubuwaits: “… The B2 Bomber, despite the essential ugliness of a machine dedicated to mass-destruction at enormous cost, addresses the constraints of its task (of combining extreme speed with invisibility to enemy radar) with such ruthlessness that, like a viking long ship or a renaissance suit of armour, it has a purity of form that…

  • Ambiguity tolerance is the ability to perceive ambiguity in information and behavior in a neutral and open way. Ambiguity tolerance is an important issue in personality development and education. In psychology and in management, levels of tolerance of ambiguity are correlated with creativity,[1] risk aversion, psychological resilience, lifestyle,[2] orientation towards diversity (cross-cultural communication, intercultural competence),…

  • Mode Four – Generative Leadership. These leaders use ambiguity to find opportunity. They tend to be inveterate learners and innovators. Modes of leadership – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via notational)

  • smarterplanet: New DARPA RFP Calls for All-In-One HUD that Sees Through Smoke, In The Dark and In Broad Daylight DARPA wants a multi-band head-up display, which could be mounted to a helmet or a weapon scope, that combines several wavelengths of light into one image. Sunny? No problem—the camera can see in visible light. Smoke…

  • The facial detection technology the company uses now detects whether a person is male or female and his or her approximate age. It also keeps a running tally of the number of people in the bar, providing this info to the bar owner and to anyone with the app on their phone. The patent application,…

  • Aeron chair history: Herman Miller’s office staple was originally designed for the elderly. – Slate Magazine

    Aeron chair history: Herman Miller’s office staple was originally designed for the elderly. – Slate Magazine

  • nevver: Artists who vote done, forward.

  • Good GIF tutorial for photoshop users

    Good GIF tutorial for photoshop users