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Scratch@MIT 2012 | Create Your World
Scratch@MIT 2012 | Create Your World I’ll be presenting. jottingmatt: 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…
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theavc: 100 Episodes investigates the most influential show in television history. (Source: http://theavc.tumblr.com/)
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Vincenzo Pacelli Says Knights of Malta Murdered Artist Caravaggio Apr 8, 2012 4:45 AM EDT Lead poisoning or syphilis? Neither killed Caravaggio, says a Naples professor in a new book. Instead, the master artist was slain and dumped in the sea by the Knights of Malta—with the Catholic Church’s blessing. Vincenzo Pacelli Says Knights of…
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The question isn’t what happens to publishing — the entire category has been evacuated. The question is, what are the parent professions needed around writing? Publishing isn’t one of them. Editing, we need, desperately. Fact-checking, we need. For some kinds of long-form texts, we need designers. Will we have a movie-studio kind of setup, where…
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nevver: The Masters
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It’s difficult to understand just how big a deal this will be. Our (US) policy has been to certify nations which aid in the War On Drugs, and to attach trade and aid to certification. Nations who were not certified were to be labelled Pariah States and sanctions attached. This truth telling by Latin American…
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Brian Lucid: Somebody make this:
Brian Lucid: Somebody make this: brianlucid: It was called “The Rome Project” by Adobe. It took a little from indesign, illustrator, photoshop and flash and brought it in-browser (it also ran on the desktop). http://rome.adobe.com/ The project is now dead as far as I know. I think they struggled finding a business model for it.…
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Somebody make this:
zachrose: A browser-based book design tool. Like InDesign, but less “pro.” Sign in to work on your projects. Images and text are saved and versioned. Make prints available for order. Publish as PDFs and/or uniformly constrained webpages.
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Notes for a theory of contemporary education
notational: Very loose ideas floating around my head these days. Even if they are loopy or ridiculous, the seeds of something useful might be in here.Not sure about the mechanistic aspects. 1. We live in a day and age (and in many cases place) in which information is not a scarce resource. Due to the…
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laphamsquarterly: The No. 1 quote critics give me is, “Thom, your work is irrelevant.” My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture. “Thomas Kinkade dies at 54,” LA Times Susan Orlean, “Art for Everybody,” The New Yorker, 2001.