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Our “now” has become at once more unforgivingly brief and unprecedentedly elastic. The half-life of media product grows shorter still, till it threatens to vanish altogether, everything into some weird quantum logic of its own, the Warholian Fifteen Minutes becoming a quarklike blink. Yet once admitted to the culture’s consensus pantheon, certain things seem destined…
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myserendipities: “There’s no way to take a direct picture of something as small and fleeting as a Higgs boson. But physicists can photograph its relatives, directly imaging atomic structures and improving our understanding of atomic physics. Now comes this picture: The first-ever snapshot of a single atom’s shadow. This is the smallest thing that can…
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Tiny Wings 2.0
jkottke: Uh oh, this is bad news for my productivity after this Thursday…Andreas Illiger is set to release the sequel to the mega-fun Tiny Wings on July 12th. In the meantime, watch the adorable handmade trailer:
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The iPhone is a sustaining technology relative to Nokia. In other words, Apple is leaping ahead on the sustaining curve [by building a better phone]. But the prediction of the theory would be that Apple won’t succeed with the iPhone. They’ve launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to…
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fyprocessing: Game Of Life Sequencer in Processing (by wesen) Editor’s note: I have an IOS Game of Life Sequencer on my iPad. Nice to see such an advanced project in tutorial form for Processing. Creator’s notes: Tutorial about building a MIDI game of life sequencer in processing. You can download the sourcecode at ruinwesen.com/support .…
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Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression
Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression npr: “The aboriginal rights movement in Australia parallels the American Indian movement in this country, with similar goals: land rights, self determination, cultural acceptance. There is also day-to-day discrimination. Morris says last year she performed at the Sydney Opera House, a crowning achievement for an Australian artist. She…
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ibmsocialbiz: Linux played a crucial role in discovery of ‘Higgs boson’ A physicist from CERN throws open-source Linux “some love” for its role in collaborative high performance computing used in discovery of the particle fundamental to the creation of mass in the universe. Via Ubuntu Vibes
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If you don’t get a chance to fail, if you don’t get a chance to try things and not get them right the first time, and you keep on doing it until you do get that specific kind of success, then you become so risk-averse that you in fact get an allergy to trying new…
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kottke.org: Def Leppard re-recording back catalog to screw Universal
kottke.org: Def Leppard re-recording back catalog to screw Universal jkottke: In a dispute with Universal over compensation for digital downloads, Def Leppard is taking the extreme and fairly metal step of re-recording their entire back catalog so they can do what they want with the songs. Earlier, they recorded what they’re calling “Forgeries” of ‘Pour…
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Gather
digitalcoleman: I am trying to take the time to hone my digital self a bit. I have added all my various links to: www.about.me/digitalcoleman and will resume much more action on this tumblr site. I will also add a number of projects I have done for others to my portfolio site to share a fuller picture…