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dinosaurparty: (via Bit Pilot for Mac – download now available! #games #openframeworks / ver 2 for iPhone/iPad – tonight! game by Zach Gage (@helvetica) | CreativeApplications.Net) Bit Pilot is one of my favorite games for the iPhone, and I am so excited to play B.P. 2.0! Zach Gage has just announced that Bit Pilot 2.0…
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DataBot mouse and HDD concepts give weight to files, encourage data purges (video) — Engadget
DataBot mouse and HDD concepts give weight to files, encourage data purges (video) — Engadget Mice have been a computing mainstay since pretty close to the dawn of the PC, but they don’t offer much in terms of information about the on-screen data you’re interacting with. What if they featured physical feedback to tip you…
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headvertising: “Casualties of War” by the UK-based Dorothy Collective is a disturbing series of plastic toy soldier figurines that shows some of the troubles that await returning American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The figurines are inspired by articles in the Colorado Springs Gazette and the New York Times about the plight of…
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A visitor to the Rotten Tomatoes site can check out the data for individual Hollywood careers—that’s how Tabarrok came up with the Shyamalan graph—but there’s no easy way for users to measure industrywide trends or to compare different actors and directors side-by-side. To that end, Rotten Tomatoes kindly let Slate analyze the scores in its…
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KYE was started in 1981 when Atari referred me to a teenaged quadriplegic in Pennsylvania who wanted to play video games. He was depressed and his family and church were searching for something to spark his interest in living after his accident. That led me to one of the foremost rehab facilities in the country,…
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KYE was started in 1981 when Atari referred me to a teenaged quadriplegic in Pennsylvania who wanted to play video games. He was depressed and his family and church were searching for something to spark his interest in living after his accident. That led me to one of the foremost rehab facilities in the country,…
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illillill: Casualties of War
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Ah, but now comes a fascinating study by three scientists at Harvard: “Does Collocation Inform the Impact of Collaboration?” They wondered whether teams that are located in the same place produce papers that have a bigger impact than teams who are disparate. So they gathered info on 35,000 papers in biomedical research where there was…
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nelsonsmum: English grammar should be taught in this manner. We are far too fluffy.
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nelsonsmum: English grammar should be taught in this manner. We are far too fluffy.