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jillsies: 17th Century Modernism? The abstract paintings shown here are not by Kazimir Malevich or Paul Klee but by Hindu tantra devotees from Indian cities like Jodhpur and Chomu, the anonymous heirs to a pictorial tradition that dates to the 1600s. Painted on salvaged paper and rarely measuring more than a foot high, the images…
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(via How to Do Things With Videogames — University of Minnesota Press) Just ordered.
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(via Critical Play – The MIT Press) Just ordered.
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(via Imaginary Games || Zero Books || Book Info) Just ordered.
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futuramb: smarterplanet: IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol | KurzweilAI IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation, ReadWriteWeb reports. A projected 24 billion simultaneous devices — sending billions of messages per hour — including RFID tags on…
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Jetan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jetan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thanks to Richard Gottlieb for the link to this. Edgar Rice Burroughs in his book, The Chessman of Mars, created a game as a plot device that is playable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chessmen_of_Mars#Jetan_and_its_influence
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Someone got a good seat at Golan Levin’s workshop at Art&&Code…
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Could this be the future of digital cameras? You may be worried about crushing this 12-megapixel camera between your fingers, but it’s a small price to pay for an awesomely tiny device — and the sensation of being a giant. (via JTT Chobi Cam Pro is the Napoleon of cheap miniature cameras – Engadget)
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After many years of managing research, I’m still not sure how to find good problems. Often I discovered that good problems were obvious only in retrospect, and even then I was sometimes proved wrong years later. Nonetheless, I did observe that there were some people who regularly found good problems, while others never seemed to…
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Feds’ Use of Fake Cell Tower: Did it Constitute a Search? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Feds’ Use of Fake Cell Tower: Did it Constitute a Search? | Threat Level | Wired.com