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Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter
Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter tommorrisdotorg: I want to share a font that changed my life. This is a paragraph from this page on Malayalama Wikipedia. The article is about Simone de Beauvoir. (You could tell, right?) I listen in on the web design community. It’s often very interesting, but can be a little bit…
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Daily Papert: Change or Die
“It is obvious that schools are lagging behind deep changes in our society. They are still organized on the model of production line factories. The deepest reason for the lag is neither the lack of physical technology nor the ability of educators to understand its meaning. The biggest reason is the built-in self-preservationist conservatism of…
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new-aesthetic: Next-Gen Contact Lenses Could Send Emails Directly to Your Eyes | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
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The Federal war on drugs is a total failure… and undermines our civil liberties. Ron Paul (via kateoplis)
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Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat | Danger Room | Wired.com
Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat | Danger Room | Wired.com The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd…
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Design Think: The contract
Design Think: The contract design-think: Recently, as I’ve got more clients and begun to take on more freelance work, I’ve needed to up my game in the paperwork department. In the past I’ve relied less on this, but the more clients I get, and the larger prospective projects that land in my inbox, the more…
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(via Growing Objects – Programming Biological Systems – Training Bacteria To Grow Consumer Goods #theory | CreativeApplications.Net)
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newyorker: Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally…
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Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker
Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker austinkleon: @MattThomas: “Wherein I agree with Harlan Ellison that Woody Allen may be the premier science fiction filmmaker of our time.” Great argument.