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Classroom discussions are everywhere…
More and more recently it seems our topics from class are reitterated within a 24 hour window (+/-). Bits and atoms? Atoms and bits? Oh my! How can “Atoms are the New Bits” (me) and “Bits are the New Atoms” (Andreessen) both be right? http://t.co/eHAG6W41 Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/chr1sa/status/134265436375232512
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austinkleon: Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. I had no idea this was coming out. The original 2007 essay—a “plagiarism” woven together from passages from other writers—was a huge influence on me and Steal and probably a bunch of other people. (Heck, David Shields took the idea and turned it into a whole…
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Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time
Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time immerseyoursoulincode: When I worked on the XBox 360, all the Interaction Design was documented in Visio diagrams which were manually translated into Flash prototypes for usability studies. I had wanted a solution like what XCode now offers with…
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thenearsightedmonkey: Meet me by the weeping willow tree. The Near-Sighted Monkey’s favorite cartoonist, Bil Keane, has died. “He was just our dad. The great thing about him is he worked at home, we got to see him all the time, and we would all sit down and have dinner together. What you see in the…
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thenearsightedmonkey: I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read. There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good. For…
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PhD preface
augerloizeau: “… the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonise the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease called the great loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. Those few who survived found no welcome on Mars. But more rockets arrived from earth,…