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The strangest thing about Silicon Valley’s libertarian politics is how few people here recognize how the Internet came about. ARPANET, the earliest large-scale computer network that morphed into the Internet, was funded by the U.S. Defense Department, as was the research into fundamental technologies like packet switching and TCP/IP. Delve deeper into the network and…
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mylifeinnumbers: (via Wooden USB memory with warmth. Tablet – Matomeno) bringing it back all natural
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The tragic image of the blues that originated in the Mississippi Delta ignores the competitive and entrepreneurial spirit of the bluesman himself. While it is certainly true that the music was forged in part by the legacy of slavery and the insults of Jim Crow, the iconic image of the lone bluesman traveling the road…
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If you think about the tone of my story, some of the main themes were time pressure, worry, risk-taking, embarrassment, and recovery from embarrassment. For me at least, this is what real life user experience design is like. It’s nothing like the vision we normally portray outwardly to graduates and newcomers to the field. There’s…
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huffingtonpost: “Of course, the extreme crisis of Constitución, the rallying cry for this massive Urbanist project, isn’t generally the condition upon which most developed nations’ urban renewals begin. As Dan Hill notes: “our crises are generally of the slow, creeping variety (climate change, ageing population, emerging social issues) rather than the focus-pull of natural disaster.…
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dphiffer: bekamop: Prototype for waterproof + breathable sleeping bag sock, to make #OWS sidewalk occupations legible as collective protest See also: Not An Alternative at Exit Art
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How a bicycle is made
jkottke: From British Council film, a short film from 1945 that shows how a bicycle is designed and manufactured. (via stellar)
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Someday perhaps I will go around carrying only a book, a change of clothes, a pen, a water bottle, a folding umbrella, and a little capsule that turns into my livelihood when opened. Rollable hi-res screen and keyboard, tiny computer the size of a cell phone or smaller but as light as a pen, with…
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kchayka: Tiny Tower + Japanese Metabolism + Rem Koolhaas for Kill Screen, by me.