Category: words

  • Should you be able to trademark a colour? Kate Abbott in The Guardian. Should Cadbury be able to trademark the colour purple? The chocolate giant has won a high-court showdown with Nestlé for the rights to Pantone 2685C. Do you think it’s the right decision? (via protoslacker)

  • Should you be able to trademark a colour? Kate Abbott in The Guardian. Should Cadbury be able to trademark the colour purple? The chocolate giant has won a high-court showdown with Nestlé for the rights to Pantone 2685C. Do you think it’s the right decision? (via protoslacker)

  • image: print by Joaquin Torres Garcia?

  • image: print by Joaquin Torres Garcia?

  • thisistheverge: Has the Prometheus universe been fused with Blade Runner’s? This can’t end well.

  • crisisgroup: Will Colombia have peace at last? | Miami Herald By Louise Arbour, Crisis Group’s President and CEO More than two generations of Colombians have suffered armed conflict, kidnappings, drug trafficking and violence. Now, a political solution to the Western Hemisphere’s oldest conflict may be in sight. Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the…

  • Mind-blowing digital GIF art

    kuvva: There are not many artists out there that use GIF as a medium to express themselves artistically. However, Matthew DiVitto shows that his design in combination with the magic of GIF loops gives his art a completely new dynamic to it. It takes him around 1 to 4 hours to create a piece depending…

  • Unbundling the Classroom Experience

    dianakimball: This year—my sixth on campus, and my last—I decided it was finally time to take CS50, Harvard’s introductory computer science course. CS50 lectures happen twice a week in Sanders Theatre, a ridiculously majestic setting. Yet for all intents and purposes (and completely by choice), I’m taking the course online.  I’ve tried taking courses online before—I’ve…

  • theatlantic: Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers The facts as I see them are clear and damning: Baby boomers took the economic equivalent of a king salmon from their parents and, before they passed it on, gobbled up everything but the bones. Ultimately, members of my father’s generation—generally defined as those…