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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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austinkleon: A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design Great article on “dark patterns”—deceptive user interfaces that companies use to increase conversion. Removing dark patterns from any site involves a leap of faith. A company has to shift from a short-term quantitative measurement mindset to one that values relatively slow, steady…
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notgames: Should videogames lose all function?
notgames: Should videogames lose all function? killscreendaily: This time Ico, pereninnal “games as art” go-to example, has managed to snare the New Yorker’s Chris Suellentrop. While the piece is mostly a review of the rerelease of Ico and designer Fumito Ueda’s most recent game Shadow of the Colossus, Suellentrop does touch on the…
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One Year Anniversary For the Kinect, Over 10 Million Units Shipped, A Game Changer in the World of Entertainment – buildsmartrobots
One Year Anniversary For the Kinect, Over 10 Million Units Shipped, A Game Changer in the World of Entertainment – buildsmartrobots A solid article on the brief history of hacking Kinects, complete with links.
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The Prophets of Science Fiction Explores Sci-Fi’s Best Writers | GeekDad | Wired.com
The Prophets of Science Fiction Explores Sci-Fi’s Best Writers | GeekDad | Wired.com
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life: For all you tech lovers… Take a look at A Brief History of Computing. Pictured: The first computer to come with a fully assembled motherboard (central printed circuit board), it sold for $666.66 and let Apple begin a three-decades-and-counting run as a global trendsetter among tech lovers.
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This essay, made available here in English and Spanish, was written for the exhibition Transitio _MX 03, which took place in Mexico City in October 2009. The text was published in December 2010 in Errata, a Colombian journal dedicated to art and culture. The text explores the concept of non-places (which is the foundation of…
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Daft Punk Cubotoy (by CUBOTOY)