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The Gibsonian Institute Catching Up To the Future: An Appreciation of William Gibson | Tor.com (via denarration )
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cartolleria: (via a billion tastes and tunes: book art, part 2)
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You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence. Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan (via seaofgreen)
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smarterplanet: The Ingenious Business Model Behind Coursekit, A Tumblr For Higher Education | Fast Company At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed “learning management systems.” Blackboard has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of…
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Space Ipsum
Space Ipsum Have you ever needed filler text, but wished you had more exciting options then the generic “lorem ipsum” variations? If so, you are in luck! We’ve created this space themed random content generator, that uses phrases from historic moments in spaceflight.
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KG: No, Billy Collins … Billy Collins said in the session before me, he said something very similar. He said, “You cant expect to find your own voice. You don’t really have your own voice. You get your voice through deep reading of other people’s work.” I thought it was really brilliant … I agreed…
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That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia
That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia univisionnews: University of Georgia Professors are running a school for undocumented students who have been blocked off from the state’s top universities. (Photo by Freedom University) By JUAN GASTELUMChannel: Immigration A group of four University of Georgia…
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it successfully ties science fiction icons to the questions that haunted us 200 years ago and now alike, about what it means to be human, about whether there are places that science shouldn’t venture. But it does fall into one easy trap: portraying these fiction writers as “prophets” in the first place. Ridley Scott’s Prophets…
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damiensaatdjian: Martin CreedWork No. 227, 2000The lights going on and off5 seconds on / 5 seconds offThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007 algorithmic art?
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But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside…