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booksactually: “With their slippers as goalposts, four boys play soccer with a plastic ball; a ball with what loks like a scar across its side, and a navel where the air which gave it its shape might have entered; which skitters rather than bounces. Their field is a void deck, whose floor coats their soles…
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dhrupad: Rudaali (1993) The title of this chapter is a play on Gayatri Spivaks’s famous query, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” The controversy and ambiguity that may have resulted from the rhetorical form in which her question was posed and the enormous ideological and philosophical charge involved in notions of speech, voice, and articulation are likely…
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Homemade soccer balls
jkottke: Photographer Jessica Hilltout has documented the game of soccer/football/futbol around the world, from the secondhand footwear to the improvised goals to the makeshift balls:
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rgr-pop: No cute thigh paperback shots, though. Is this that “death of print” thing everyone’s been so upset about? ebook readers threaten an entire genre of internet memetics!
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slavin: not just in the NYT. It’s what makes TV shows on cable feel more convincing than their network counterpart: characters can speak like real people. obsessivecompulsive: zadie smith on interviewing jay-z for the nyt
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Diagram of the eyes and related nerves, manuscript illustration from Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) by Ibn al-Haytham, featured in Science in Medieval Islam by Howard R. Turner. more at source: touba:
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Udacity may or may not survive, but as with Napster, there’s no containing the story it tells: “It’s possible to educate a thousand people at a time, in a single class, all around the world, for free.” To a traditional academic, this sounds like crazy talk. more clay. more truth. » Napster, Udacity, and the…
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How big is Dropbox? Hint: very big
How big is Dropbox? Hint: very big An article in Forbes has some astounding stats that give you a sense of the size and scope of Dropbox’s business. A billion files saved every 24 hours. It has 100 million users, twice as many as a year ago. Nearly 96 percent of its customers use Dropbox…
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Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia
Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia rafaelfajardo: ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Art) being held in Sydney from June 7th – 16th has an open call for participation – that has recently been extended to Friday, November 30th. There are numerous categories for participation ranging from “Provocations”, “Creator Sessions” and “Online…
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Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia
Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Art) being held in Sydney from June 7th – 16th has an open call for participation – that has recently been extended to Friday, November 30th. There are numerous categories for participation ranging from “Provocations”, “Creator Sessions” and “Online Collaborations”…