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paintedetc: Someone had to do it sooner or later, and here is a try. Now you can buy digital editions to display on your devices via Sedition. Of course it helps that all of the works currently on offer aren’t really digital artworks as such, and are pretty much just photographs of things that have…
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emergentfutures: IARPA Commits $10.5M to Develop Gamification for Intelligence Late last week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA, it’s like DARPA for spies) announced a new contract of $10.5 million to develop “serious games” that include training for US intelligence officers. Along side projects designing the future of silicon chips and predicting the future…
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As a young girl, I was an opinionated, asocial, extroverted, impossible egregious brat whose primary friends were books! The early lessons I learned, generally the hard way, in standing up for myself and my egocentricities, being proud of being ‘different,’ doing my own thing, gave me the strength of purpose to continue doing so later…
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Tom Morris: I was on the train recently and saw something that to anyone competent…
Tom Morris: I was on the train recently and saw something that to anyone competent… tommorrisdotorg: I was on the train recently and saw something that to anyone competent at using a computer is a bit like the sound of nails on a chalkboard. Across the aisle from me was a man with a MacBook…
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It’s statements like these that remind me how ridiculous the social gaming industry can seem (and how much I adore being a part of it):
pigtailsandritalin: “We took the basic game mechanics from city or village builders, did our marketing research to find what would make a unique theme or IP and added mechanics that would make it more interesting,” he said. “That’s why we’re adding the ability to raise dinosaurs.” – Michael Zhuang, Producer for Tiny Village hmmmmmmnn.
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immerseyoursoulincode: stochastic-gamer: I just discovered how to use Xcode 4’s Storyboard editor to design user interface. I am in love with Xcode. It is THE most pleasant integrated development environment (IDE) I’ve ever used and I’m starting to get a hang of Objective-C and how the MVC system works. You do the usual Interface Builder stuff…
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Memory May Not Sustain
lareviewofbooks: DEAN RADER on Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Blood Run Allison Adelle Hedge CokeBlood Run Salt Publishing, November 2007. 120 pp. Located in Eastern South Dakota and Western Iowa, Blood Run is a series 176 well-constructed ceremonial mounds built by the Oneonta. The site is over 8,000 years old, but archeologists believe it saw its…
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prostheticknowledge: Printrbot on Kickstarter Impressive pitch for a 3D printer model, which claims that the product can be built in an hour, no soldering needed, and perfect as an introductory or personal product to experiment with: I designed the Printrbot to be the simplest 3D printer yet. There are some great kits out there –…
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nevver: #OccupyXmas begins, “Buy Nothing Day”
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text(ure) of quiipuu
new-aesthetic: Books2Barcodes is an ongoing effort to convert all the world’s great books to QR codes (2D barcodes). Each work featured here is the entire text of a piece of classic literature translated into several thousand barcodes. With a mobile device equipped with a camera and a barcode-scanning app, you can experience the joy of…