RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior. App Inventor looks a lot like Scratch for grownups.   (via lifeandcode)

  • “Moments of insight are a very-well studied psychological phenomenon with two defining features,” Lehrer tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies. “The answer comes out of the blue – when we least expect it. … [And] as soon as the answer arrives we know this is the answer we’ve been looking for. … The answer comes attached…

  • Coffeehouses brought people and ideas together; they inspired brilliant ideas and discoveries that would make Britain the envy of the world. The first stocks and shares were traded in Jonathan’s coffeehouse by the Royal Exchange (now a private members’ club); merchants, ship-captains, cartographers, and stockbrokers coalesced into Britain’s insurance industry at Lloyd’s on Lombard Street…

  • First of all, as a student of culture and popular culture and the impact that it has on us all, I know this to be true: Seeing yourself represented in the popular culture is really critical in terms of forming your own self image. I’m old enough to have been around before seeing black people…

  • [I’m] really liking Kickstarter, the type of project that shows up and gets funded… they’re handing out more money than the NEA.. if this goes on, it won’t be long before geek art… is our dominant means of popular expression. A tidal wave of Kickstarter tech art is going to sweep the land. Bruce Sterling…

  • The New Inquiry: Stalker/Zona

    The New Inquiry: Stalker/Zona thenewinquiry: Geoff Dyer has “broken” America, as they say in Britain. This year’s National Book Critics’ Circle award for his collection of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, capped his rise from the occasional introducer of republished classics to a regular columnist in the New York Times

  • Sketching and Experience Design (by StanfordUniversity) I’m looking/thinking/sketching with Bill Buxton in mind as I prepare for my class called Rapid Physical Game Design & Prototyping. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. Researcher-storyteller Brené Brown, author of The Gifts of Imperfection,at TED 2012. Get a taste for her fascinating work on vulnerability with her 2010 TEDxHouston talk. (via explore-blog) I will explore this thought.

  • explore-blog: “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change,” researcher-storyteller Brené Brown famously said. In her absolutely fantastic TED 2012 talk, a complement to her equally eloquent 2010 talk on vulnerability,  she digs deep into the unspoken epidemic of shame and the spectrum of broken behavior it engenders.  Brown’s book, The Gifts of Imperfection, is a must-read.  (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • dinosaurparty: (via SFMOMA | Exhibitions Events | Calendar | Museum As Game Board) I’m on a panel at the SF MOMA on April 19th, talking about game design, gaming culture, gamification, and the rise of so-called ‘serious games.’” I’m looking forward to it! Wish I could be in the audience for this.