Category: words

  • Livingston: What advice would you give to hackers who are thinking about starting a company or making something on their own? Wozniak: First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what…

  • explore-blog: Where to find a creative class job in 2020 – a map of projected growth.

  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 nbclatino: NBC News’ Lilia Luciano reports on students and friends rallying around a Miami High School senior valedictorian, who has been ordered by a federal immigration judge to leave the country.  Daniela Pelaez, who was brought by her parents from Colombia at 4-years-old, is looking to appeal the decision. The U.S. Immigration and Customs…

  • We’re all made of Star-stuff: Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In Art School

    We’re all made of Star-stuff: Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In Art School philmcandrew: I get a lot of emails from illustration students and young cartoonists. Sometimes they ask to interview me for a class assignment, sometimes they’re recent graduates looking for advice on how to transition from art student to professional…

  • joshuabeane23: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.She conceptualized the idea of…

  • Curated Design Fiction Videos: the videos every design-fiction fan should see | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com

    Curated Design Fiction Videos: the videos every design-fiction fan should see | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com notational: *These demonstrate the spectrum of possibility with a design-fiction approach.

  • If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea… – Antoine de Saint Exupery, as quoted by Neil deGrasse Tyson in his current Reddit AmA One of my life goals is to…

  • emergentdigitalpractices: (via KAROLINA SOBECKA) visiting the University of Denver this week. Sniff is now installed in our C-cubed Studios. Karolina is giving us a behind the scenes glimpse at how the work behaves.

  • Colombia rebels say freeing all ‘prisoners of war’

    nbclatino: A man lights a candle among others forming the word ‘Peace’, on January 26, 2012 in Cali, Colombia, during a tribute to the FARC hostages who died in captivity. (Photo /Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images) by the Associated Press    BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s main rebel group says it will free the last of the government…

  • marathonpacks: markrichardson: (…) It’s upsetting to watch, but this is one of the great “Fuck You” moments in popular music history. Instead of just leaving the stage, she rubs the audience’s face in what she had done. Her bravery is astonishing.  What crime briefly made her the most hated woman in America? She had the…