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inkwell.vue.400 : State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky permalink #68 of 156: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 7 Jan 11 02:14 “Abundance breaks more things than scarcity,” as Clay Shirky once abundantly said. I used to be involved in the paper fanzine scene, so I was never much daunted by the supposed…
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Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine Herzog’s advice to students at his Rogue Film School—where he teaches how to pick locks and forge shooting permits—is “read, read, read, read, read, read, read—if you do not read, you’ll never be a filmmaker,” but he isn’t interested in talking about…
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theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they’re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was “little more than…
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huntedandgathered-blog: Jon-Kyle Mohr
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DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro
DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro dcwomenkickingass: Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died yesterday. She was 75. Women had run for president in the past (I have an aunt who has a button she saved from when Shirley Chisolm ran in 1972) but no woman…
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iwdrm: “Monday, we burn Miller … Tuesday, Tolstoy … Wednesday, Walt Whitman … Friday, Faulkner … and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto.” Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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On the wall are Penn’s ten game design rules, and it’s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There’s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there’s a sort of organic, industrial design approach – they start by considering…
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Popular Mechanics reported in 1949 that “computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” Mr. Smarty Pants. Austin Chronicle. 24 February, 1995.
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