-
Memory May Not Sustain
lareviewofbooks: DEAN RADER on Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Blood Run Allison Adelle Hedge CokeBlood Run Salt Publishing, November 2007. 120 pp. Located in Eastern South Dakota and Western Iowa, Blood Run is a series 176 well-constructed ceremonial mounds built by the Oneonta. The site is over 8,000 years old, but archeologists believe it saw its…
-
nevver: #OccupyXmas begins, “Buy Nothing Day”
-
text(ure) of quiipuu
new-aesthetic: Books2Barcodes is an ongoing effort to convert all the world’s great books to QR codes (2D barcodes). Each work featured here is the entire text of a piece of classic literature translated into several thousand barcodes. With a mobile device equipped with a camera and a barcode-scanning app, you can experience the joy of…
-
montesmith: Denver Colorado November 23, 2011. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Occupy Denver demonstrators and members of the free kitchen, The Thunderdome, gather outside the Denver Rescue Mission to feed the hungry and protest against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who were briefly on site as symbolic hosts of a holiday…
-
Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. “Even in a seminar class,” his syllabus states, “it seems a little silly to require…
-
austinkleon: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: Kare created a lot of these digital symbols on paper—on cheap, simple paper. Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare…
-
Wireframe prototyping on iOS
Wireframe prototyping on iOS immerseyoursoulincode: It basically lets you string together wireframe sketches into prototypes that you can tap though on iOS devices. I’ll let you know what I think after I try it — whether I will be using this for my own projects or will continue to put these together in XCode. I…
-
Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter
Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter tommorrisdotorg: I want to share a font that changed my life. This is a paragraph from this page on Malayalama Wikipedia. The article is about Simone de Beauvoir. (You could tell, right?) I listen in on the web design community. It’s often very interesting, but can be a little bit…
-
Daily Papert: Change or Die
“It is obvious that schools are lagging behind deep changes in our society. They are still organized on the model of production line factories. The deepest reason for the lag is neither the lack of physical technology nor the ability of educators to understand its meaning. The biggest reason is the built-in self-preservationist conservatism of…
-
The Federal war on drugs is a total failure… and undermines our civil liberties. Ron Paul (via kateoplis)