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The iPad, iPhone, and other handheld devices also rid themselves of the cursor, so that their users are not really directed anywhere anymore. This is an interaction that designers are apparently much challenged by—a way of looking at a page that is closer to reading print. Rhizome | Screen. Image. Text. (via paperbits)
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thisistheverge: Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘We fell short’ on new Maps app in iOS 6, suggests third-party alternatives Apple has been under fire since last week’s launch of iOS 6 and its new, in-house Maps app — and now Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has published an open letter in which he admits that the new…
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markcoatney: playboy: 50 years of the Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick Oh. So this explains why I’ve watched The Big Lebowski 28 times.
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Short trains of causality vs the wisdom of complex systems
shrinkrants: …the living human body is a complex, cybernetically integrated system. This system has been studied by scientists …for many years. … Being doctors, they had purposes: to cure this and that. Their research efforts were therefore focused …upon those short trains of causality which they could manipulate, by means of drugs or other intervention,…
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internetpoetry: poem from samuel von allen’s e-book I WRITE AMBIGUOUSLY ABOUT SHIPS AND THE WATER
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thisistheverge: Before ‘Angry Birds’: the short life of click wheel iPod games If a device has a screen, sooner or later someone will try to put a game on it. So even though the iPhone may not have been designed with gaming in mind, its sheer ubiquity has turned it into a disruptive force in…
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prostheticknowledge: Zinedine Zidane Statue Unveiled In Paris, Headbutting Another Player Via BBC Sport: A five-metre high statue of Zinedine Zidane’s famous headbutt on Marco Materazzi has been unveiled in Paris. France captain Zidane was sent off in the 2006 World Cup final, which his team went on to lose on penalties, for headbutting Italy defender…
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Learnable Programming
Learnable Programming Very intriguing essay on what a very learnable programming system needs to be and do. Includes very critical perspectives on Processing…
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nevver: The history of the scroll bar