Category: words

  • Introducing Inkling Habitat The world’s first scalable publishing environment for interactive content Inkling Habitat – Scalable digital publishing for professionals

  • Inkling Habitat lets publishers create interactive e-books with HD video, interactive features and 3D content in a free, cloud-based program. E-books can immediately be published to iPad and the Web in HTML5, with updates pushed to both platforms at once. (Well, iPad is available now and Web publishing will be added later this year.) Multiple…

  • You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and…

  • DOUBLEFUCKINGSPACE

    barthel: I was raised to put two spaces after a goddamn period. My dad, who made his bones typing on typewriters and all, taught me to, and he’s an English professor, so I listened to him. It’s only in the last year that I’ve broken myself of the habit, and honestly, I’m not really happy…

  • kateoplis: “After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.  Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics,…

  • theatlantic: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Meet Ben. He’s a high school senior from a middle class family in Massachusettes who is choosing where to attend college next year. He’s down to two schools: prestigious Boston College, or the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his state’s top public campus. Even with the…

  • It is not there is anything necessarily wrong with what I call high theory, which is critical thought that is created within spaces such as the university. It is just that it is created within the space of a given game. There is a game—you write books that get noticed and then you get promoted…

  • I’d love to read and appreciate the Joyce of coding. I’d love to one day be the John Cage of coding, maybe with some Bruce Nauman, Rimbaud and Chris Marker thrown in for good measure. I love wondering what John Cage would do with Processing. Learning, coding, systems of power, and Mozilla « Persona (via thoughtshrapnel)…

  • dropouthangoutspaceout: Larval Subjects: Speculative Realism, the Commons, and Politics I do think, however, speculative realism and onticology are able to exclude certain ethico-political positions or, at least, substantially modify the terms of the debate.  For example, it’s clear that under an onticological and new materialist approach to being, the normative axiomatics of liberalism and neo-liberalism…

  • museumoflatinamericanart: Prepare yourselves, Danger is coming soon!