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reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The general gestured to the screens. “Why wasn’t this detected? Our systems should have sounded the alarm the moment anomalous IP traffic patterns occurred. Isn’t that what the neural logic farm is for?” Philips was calm. “It wasn’t detected, General, because there were no anomalous traffic patterns to detect. The Daemon is not an Internet…
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l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they…
l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they… I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they are doing—not to others, but to themselves. In this respect they are not alone. Every contemporary subject constantly asks these two questions: What has to be…
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theatlantic: Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets? For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently…
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(via Letter Fountain)
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(via Letter Fountain)
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 — Saturday, July 28, 2012 Scratch@MIT 2012 is the third biennial conference where educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch community will gather on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts to share their experiences and imagine the possibilities of Scratch. I’ll be in Boston July 24-29 to present…
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cotonblanc: cotonblanc-deactivated20150422: Eduard Hoffmann’s notebook documents the birth and early development of Neue Haas Grotesk and Helvetica. On this page from May 7th, 1957, he noted: “All characters: should be OK now”. Neue Haas Grotesk
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15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us
15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us nevver: Keep good company Notice the ordinary Preserve the ephemeral Design not for the elite but for the masses Explain it to a child Get lost in the content Get to the heart of the matter Never tolerate “O.K. anything.” Remember your responsibility as a storyteller Zoom…
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Dr. Manhattan dances to “Atomic”
Dr. Manhattan dances to “Atomic”.
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Dr. Manhattan has six more weeks of winter
Dr. Manhattan has six more weeks of winter.