Category: words

  • The iPad, iPhone, and other handheld devices also rid themselves of the cursor, so that their users are not really directed anywhere anymore. This is an interaction that designers are apparently much challenged by—a way of looking at a page that is closer to reading print. Rhizome | Screen. Image. Text. (via paperbits)

  • markcoatney: playboy: 50 years of the Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick Oh. So this explains why I’ve watched The Big Lebowski 28 times.

  • Vector drawing of the day in the tradition of the the Mola by the Kuna of Panama, by yours truly.

  • As a font developer, I spend a good chunk of each day coding in a text editor and reading output messages from a terminal window, so I can appreciate the importance of a good monospaced font. Of course there is no technical limitation to using monospaced fonts when coding, but it is a very useful…

  • Moreover, the growth of high-input technologies like GE seeds have been participants in the rapid intertwining of food and oil – if your seeds require a million dollar grant and a full university research lab to produce it is food that is tightly tied to the price of oil – and when oil and food…

  • I am imagining a summer teaching apprenticeship for new media grad students in our program.

  • laughingsquid: 50 Shades of Color – How the Evolution of Palettes Changed the World

  • williamlmoore: baldessari

  • nevver: How to Be an Explorer

  • futurescope: Transparent double-sided touchscreen display Android smartphone prototype via diginfo NTT docomo have developed a prototype smartphone that works through touch on the front and back, using touchpanels on both sides of a see-through display. This smartphone is being co-developed by DoCoMo and Fujitsu. By using it from the back, you can scroll the screen…