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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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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…
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montesmith: Denver Colorado November 23, 2011. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Occupy Denver demonstrators and members of the free kitchen, The Thunderdome, gather outside the Denver Rescue Mission to feed the hungry and protest against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who were briefly on site as symbolic hosts of a holiday…
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DROP OUT. HANG OUT. SPACE OUT.: Official Master of the Universe y’all
DROP OUT. HANG OUT. SPACE OUT.: Official Master of the Universe y’all dropouthangoutspaceout: Expect my thesis to be popping up here in a day or two. Here is the abstract, to cause anticipation: STATE INTERVENTION, VIDEOGAMES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS This thesis illustrates, using political economy, the ways in which…
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Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. “Even in a seminar class,” his syllabus states, “it seems a little silly to require…
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austinkleon: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: Kare created a lot of these digital symbols on paper—on cheap, simple paper. Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare…
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PRESIDENT FOR A DAY: Video games as youth civic education – Information, Communication and Society
PRESIDENT FOR A DAY: Video games as youth civic education – Information, Communication and Society dropouthangoutspaceout: barthel: While I’m mentioning things, I might as well mention that I got my first academic article published. It’s an adaptation of my thesis, in which I designed a video game that simulates the process of determining the federal…