Category: words

  • elephantcandy: Play and start designing sounds with this iPad/Touchosc template for the legendary Skrewell reaktor instrument, the template works in both ways, Reaktor >< TouchOSC. http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/touchosc/id288120394?mt=8 picture (http://absoundscapes.blogspot.com/2010/09/skrewell-layout-for-touchoscipad.html)

  • Here at drop.io, we’ve had a great three years helping people privately share pictures, video, audio, documents, andmore. It’s been a thrill to watch the first, thousandth, millionth, and ten-millionth drop be created. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve struck a deal with Facebook. What this means is that Facebook has bought most of…

  • San Juan del Sur Biblioteca

    San Juan del Sur Biblioteca lwbubc: The SJDS Biblioteca is the first lending library in Nicaragua, providing books, information, technology, and community center services to the people of San Juan del Sur and its surrounding communities. “Our objective was to start a lending library and mobile program for San Juan del Sur and the small…

  • This inspired Frank Chimero to create sense vs nonsense: inspiration vs imitation (by Jessica Hische)

  • Indenting the first paragraph. The first paragraph is never indented, subsequent paragraphs are.Indenting a paragraph too far. The standard indent for a paragraph is 1 em, not ½ inch. (Identing and adding empty space require penance. Save your soul by using one or the other, not both.)Failing to hang punctuation into the margin. Punctuation has…

  • Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex)

    Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex) 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart: psychotherapy: For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or Virginia Woolf) are also the most innovative. Aristotle was there first, stating…

  • thedailywhat: Infographic of the Day: “The Evolution of the Geek” I will henceforth be referring to my style as a “mix of tech and Urkel.” (Embiggen) [flowtown.]

  • andren: Welcome (by igor eskinja)

  • The taste of Kit Kat candy bars, Coca-Cola beverages and Jelly Belly candies are known to stimulate cravings and subsequently influence consumers’ spending habits, but now researchers suggest simply hearing the sound of those brands and others with repetitively structured names can induce similar outcomes. Across several product categories, audible exposure to repetitive-sounding brand names…